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Resources

We are pleased to provide you with access to key resources providing gardening guidance about ecologically friendly approaches relevant to our lives here in Southwest Florida. Links and suggestions will be updated periodically as we become aware of new content.

Here are links to the websites of other local non-profits whose resources may be helpful.

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  • The Lifelong Gardener: Garden with Ease and Joy at Any Age — Toni Gattone. In The Lifelong Gardener, adaptive gardening expert Toni Gattone shares her proven methods for making your favorite hobby easier on your aging body—techniques that that will help you garden smarter, not harder.

  • Nature’s Best Hope and Bringing Nature Home: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard  — Douglas Tallamy

  • Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. Even more important, it’s practical, effective, and easy—you will walk away with specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard.

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

  • Seeds of Hope: Wisdom & Wonder From the World of Plants — Jane Goodall.  Looking at the world as an adventurer, scientist, and devotee of sustainable foods and gardening—and setting forth simple goals we can all take to protect the plants around us—Goodall delivers an enlightening story of the wonders we can find in our own backyards.

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