Posts tagged public rewilding
Layering Wildscapes in Your Garden [Video]

Joyce Hostyn, an amazing ReWilder from Kingston, Ontario, had hosted a wonderful session on designing landscapes with native plants. We have her recorded session and links to more information in this blog post.

Joyce is a rewilder who dreams of city streets lined with fruit and nut trees, wild parks and wild yards. She sees each yard as a possibility space - one yearning to burst free from tightly controlled grass and foundation plantings to become a beautiful, biodiverse, magical wildscape populated with native species, edibles and companionable exotics. Raised on a farm where her family grew, foraged and preserved enough produce to last the year, Joyce now experiments with edible forest gardening on her lawn-free quarter acre lot (featured last summer in the Kingston-Whig Standard).

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Welcome to Hicksville: Mindy and the Eagle Scout Project

Mindy Marcus is a long-time Long Island resident, and a Master Gardener. She and her husband Michael grow ornamental plants, a vegetable garden and have been adding Native plants to their gardens. They have a son Joey who in October of 2010 finished his Eagle Scout Beautification Project, at the Welcome to Hicksville Site on the corner of Levittown Parkway and Old Country Road. The family has upkept the site and adding plants and flowers since. Native plants as Joe Pye, Mountain Mint and Black-eyed Susan’s have been added to bring the pollinators and birds to the area and keep it a site of beauty and honor, to recognize all who serve.

Mindy reflects on her long road to ReWilding and what she learned on the way …

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"Art and Garden" Event : A Resounding Success

A photo-video-journal of the “Art And Garden” Event on 22nd September 2019, where the Manes Center at the Nassau County Museum of Art teamed with ReWild Long Island to create an incredible day of Children’s illustrations, Storytime readings, Butterfly Workshops, Native Plants Sales and the planting of a Perennial Garden. Mindy Marcus, our reporter extraordinaire, reports from the scene …

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