Here's more information about habitat gardening.

Our handouts

• Gardening for Life - an article by Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home
• Native and Invasive Plant List
• Butterfly Resources
• Pollinator Resources
• Bird Resources
• Design Resources
• Earth-friendly Resources

Learn more

Stewardship Garden, a habitat garden in Central New York, has a variety of resources available. The main body of the website relates the story of one habitat garden in Central New York. The sidebars link to other information off-site and have inspirational reflections. (You can use the links below, use the Stewardship Garden sitemap or go to Stewardship Garden and explore.)

Here are just some of the many topics on the Stewardship Garden website:

• Learn more
  • Core resources
  • More resources
  • Plant books
  • Plants on the web
  • Wildlife information
• Plants
  • Native plants
  • Invasive plants
  • Botanic names and cultivars
• Habitat
  • The habitat basics
  • Designing the habitat garden
  • Why a habitat garden?
  • People in the habitat garden, including children
  • The seasons in the habitat garden
• Earth-friendly practices
  • Gardening practices
  • Lawn
  • Pesticides
  • Water
  • Compost
  • Climate
• Creatures in the habitat garden
  • Birds
  • Butterflies
  • Monarchs
  • Bees
  • Other insects
  • Amphibians
  • Mammmals
  • Invaders
• Take action!
  • Coffee
  • In the community
  • Citizen science
  • Organizations
  • Signs

Resources from our programs

Krissy Faust from Cornell presented our January 2012 program. Here's her PowerPoint presentation (a large 10 MB file of her complete PPT program), and here is her Native Lawn Species list.