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Ocean Ecology

Ocean Shore Stabilization, Restoration, and Ocean Ecology. Ocean shorelines are living edges, basically not static property lines. In healthy ocean ecology, beaches, dunes, salt marshes, ...

No Mow May

No Mow May Is Missing the Point. Every spring, social media fills with reminders to participate in No Mow May. The idea is simple: stop ...

Railroad Ecosystems

Railroad Ecosystems: The Hidden Conservation Corridors Across the Landscape. When most people think of railroads, they soon think of transportation. Ecologists, however, generally recognize the ...

Urban Heat Islands

Urban Heat Islands: Why Cities Are Getting Hotter and How Native Plants Can Help. If you’ve ever walked across a blacktop parking lot on a ...

Forest Succession

Forest Succession: How a Forest Builds Itself Over Time. Forest succession is generally the ecological process that describes how a forest establishes, develops, and matures ...

Patience Makes Gardens

Patience Makes Gardens In a culture that expects instant results, gardens quietly teach a rather different lesson. Healthy landscapes are not rushed. They are grown ...

Pollinator Gardens in Albany, NY

Pollinator Gardens in Albany, NY To be sure, in the past few years, many customers have reached out requesting pollinator gardens in Albany, NY. We ...

Chop and Drop Mulching for Biodiversity

Chop and Drop Mulching for Biodiversity and Soil Health What if one of the best mulches for your garden was already growing there? Chop and ...

Before, During, After

Before, During, After: The Transformation of a Native Plant Garden Before During After. Every native plant garden begins with a view that appears a little ...

Early Blooming Natives

Early Blooming Natives. Most of the flowering native plants that grow in eastern US butterfly gardens and pollinator gardens trend towards late season blooming. The ...

Climate resilient corporate landscaping

Climate-resilient corporate landscaping. Climate resilient corporate landscaping is a lot more than an exterior upgrade or capital gains. (Although those tangible gains are very welcome ...

Edible Food Forest Gardens

Edible Food Forest Gardens: Permanent Native Agriculture that Feeds People and Wildlife. At Jessecology, we’ve been building Edible Food Forest Gardens for over 15 years. ...

Regenerative Landscaping

Regenerative Landscaping Regenerative LandscapingHumans have a regenerative gear. We just need to use it. Most modern interactions with the land are quietly degrading. People mow, ...

Protecting Plants from Deer

Protecting Plants from Deer. The Mild Winter Affect. Altogether the mild winter this year gave way to an exploding mammal population in spring. Undoubtedly there ...

From Roots to Radiance

From Roots to Radiance From Roots to Radiance: Story of a Native Garden in Development. Every lasting garden begins underground. Long before flowers catch the ...