I Don't Want To Be Angry Any More. Let's Look At Prairie Gardens And Tapestry Lawns :)

i don't want to be angry any more. let's look at prairie gardens and tapestry lawns :)

don't cry, future is beautiful

a type of baltimore guys you see on certain special days is one in all ravens gear and one in all orioles gear and they’re doing their little game day things together like day drinking and yelling. i think they are in love

It actually bums me out that astrology has persisted through the years as the standard BS divinatory practice that people really buy into, when it so easily could have been ornithomancy instead.

We could’ve had hipster girls trying to predict the minutiae of your life using an intricate chart that details how many herons or crows you’ve seen in the past year. Instead of asking what’s your sign on dating apps people would be like how many birds did you see on your way to work today. I cannot stop thinking about what could have been.

specialization

HUGE NEWS!!! The Rethinking Lawns project of @chicagobotanic @ChicagoParks @UMFlint just received the PACSP grant from @NSF & @PGAFamilyFdn to support our research into lawn enhancement & replacement with native plants. PIs:

@BeckSamBar @BeckyTonietto @lglyndal @chase_prairie (that's me!)

Turf lawns are omnipresent landscapes in urban settings. While they are more beneficial than impervious surfaces, our research project asks the question: what could our lawns become?

Coming from backgrounds in prairie restoration and urban native plants, we are proposing that incorporating short native plants into lawn greenspaces can produce concrete benefits for people and our more-than-human neighbors.

We are quantifying the benefits of our native plants in these settings, putting numbers to the theoretical benefits documented in the literature. We are measuring wildlife support, stormwater infiltration, cooling effect, and soil carbon storage.

To learn more, check out our website with official press releases and links and goodies!

Rethinking Lawns

NSF Grant Announced!

The National Science Foundation and Paul G. Allen Family Foundation have announced a $1.76 million grant to study the effects of converting

a type of baltimore guys you see on certain special days is one in all ravens gear and one in all orioles gear and they’re doing their little game day things together like day drinking and yelling. i think they are in love