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Rewilding Action Step #10: Promote rewilding throughout your community. Educate decision makers on the importance of restoring native plants and habitat.
Pledge to Rewild (bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild) — get free info & resources to learn. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
Rewilding Action Step #9: Join forces with your neighbors to connect fragmented habitat into migration corridors for birds and pollinators.
Pledge to Rewild (bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild) — get free info & resources to learn. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
Rewilding Action Step #7: Don’t use fertilizers or pesticides on your plants — they harm wildlife & nature. Ask your nursery for pesticide-free plants.
Pledge to Rewild (bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild) — get free info & resources to learn. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
Rewilding Action Step #7: Don’t use fertilizers or pesticides on your plants — they harm wildlife & nature. Ask your nursery for pesticide-free plants.
Pledge to Rewild (bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild) — get free info & resources to learn. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
Rewilding Action Step #6: Use non-plant features to help wildlife, like less light for night-pollinating moths; bird baths; & boxes for birds, bats, & bees.
Pledge to Rewild (bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild) and get free info and resources. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
Rewilding Action Step #5: Mowing, blowing, & raking harms pollinators & birds — leave the leaves, stems, & sticks to protect & nourish wildlife year-round.
Pledge to Rewild (bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild) and get free info and resources. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
Rewilding Action Step #4: Some pollinators need certain plant species for food & reproduction. Learn what those are for pollinators you want to support.
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Rewilding Action Step #3: Use a diversity and abundance of plants anywhere that isn’t paved, including containers, hellstrips, or on balconies.
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Rewilding Action Step #2: Shrink your sterile, resource-hungry lawn and convert most of it to layers of trees, shrubs, & ground covers, or a wildflower meadow.
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Rewilding Action Step #1: Plant native trees to support local food webs & restore native plant biomass in your landscape. Pledge to Rewild bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild & get free info, resources, & actionable steps toward rewilding. #PledgeToRewild10ActionSteps #PledgeToRewild
re·wild /rēˈwīld/
Restore native plants, reverse habitat loss, and support biodiversity. Use landscaping practices that benefit wildlife. Join forces to connect fragmented habitat and advocate for nature. Learn about rewilding — a growing movement: bit.ly/pledge-to-rewild
Have you seen the news? Thanks to the support of its members and donors, Wild Seed Project is growing — and hiring! Learn about our search for a full-time executive director, and share with anyone you know who might be a good candidate. bit.ly/wsp-executive-directo…
When monarch butterflies migrate from Mexico to Maine this summer, they’ll look for the only food monarch caterpillars eat — milkweeds. Support summertime monarch populations — sow milkweed seeds now! Learn more bit.ly/wsp-monarchs-milkweed / bit.ly/wsp-seed-shop
Join Anna Fialkoff this Saturday for a webinar about pruning trees and shrubs for their health and beauty.
Register through Native Plant Trust – bit.ly/2021-0213-winter-prun… – and choose “Classes – Member of Cosponsor” to indicate WSP sent you!
#winterpruning
Join our tradition of sowing native seeds on New Years Day — or anytime in January. Ring in the New Year with your own seed sowing and post photos with #NewYearNativeSeedSowing and #PledgetoRewild. Don’t forget to tag @WildSeedProject! shop.wildseedproject.net/
ALT Photo of plant pots with a person sowing seeds in them.
Join WSP founder Heather McCargo and other climate crisis experts and advocates for a discussion to accompany the exhibit “How Do We Relate to the Climate Crisis?” at The Gallery of the Multicultural Arts Center. All Details: bit.ly/climate-crisis-panel-…
Happy #GivingTuesday! Please give as generously as you can to support our work. Planting native plants reverses habitat loss, maintains biodiversity, & builds community. Plus, your donation supports our 10 Year Impact Plan for a healthy Maine landscape. bit.ly/2KmT0OH
Jumpstart your #GivingTuesday donation by making an early gift. Your donation supports the work we do to empower people to make a difference in their backyard. By planting just one native plant, you are creating vital habitat for threatened pollinators. bit.ly/2KmT0OH
