Be Kind To Humankind 2021 Highlight Be Kind To Humankind (BK2HK) week is an annual invitation to strengthen your community by sharing joy and caring for the collective. To celebrate, I am highlighting a small business in Olympia, WA that is spreading kindness beyond their walls and into the world. I had many to choose …
The Untapped Intelligence of Native Plants Back it up: How are plants intelligent? Intelligence is the ability to acquire and strategically apply information. Plants read changes in their communities and respond to suit their needs. They adapt, migrate, and rely on long-term relationships to pull through hard times. You can see plant intelligence in action next …
What is a Native Plant? Native plants belong where everyone knows their name. Be glad yours remain. A native plant is one that has grown within a specific area for hundreds or thousands of years. Over that time, they developed life-sustaining relationships with one another, animals, fungi, microbes, and the non-living landscape. Every native organism …
Plants Can Change The World Plants are extraordinary superheroes: they provide a multitude of tremendous services without asking for much in return. For starters, plants supply us with the basic requirements of life (food, oxygen, and shelter), but they also enrich our lives in unnoticed ways. The daily tasks that plants perform are called ecosystem services, …