REAL STORIES THAT REACH YOUR AUDIENCE
It’s all like sculpting with nature. But I have to work fast knowing there are only a few more weeks or days before the summer’s heat wilt the transplants and me.
By late spring I get a bit obsessive and gardening often takes up most of my days.
I began to garden with no hands-on knowledge. (I’d spent decades explaining the importance of biodiversity at AMNH; but I never got my hands in the dirt until Dave and I moved to New Jersey.) Knowing how toxic conventional gardening can be, I had overlooked the good along with the bad.
Mock Strawberry WILD in the Garden State just had a string of festival screenings. The inspiring story of gardening for wildlife is building an audience! The Q&A’s following the screenings were lively conversations where Dave and I shared our knowledge about filmmaking, design and gardening. …
Is spring already here? Dave put down the kitchen binoculars and turned to me: “should we clean out the birdhouses again?”…
Native plant gardening is good for the health of the planet, your community and your personal well-being. Yes to all that, but it’s more than that.
Witnessing the moment a chickadee lands on a shrub to pluck a fat-filled berry is a bit beyond words….
Lucinda in the Garden, July, 2021 Our cat Lucinda was struck and killed by a car. She died on the busy road in front of our house. A road she had steered clear of for the 11 years she lived with us in New Jersey. …
https://vimeo.com/629495179 Wild in the Garden State is the story of connecting to the natural world in suburban New Jersey. Dave and Sarah are city transplants who want a beautiful, ecological garden, but don’t have any gardening experience. The documentary short (under 30 minutes) captures the …
Why native plants?
Insects depend on native plants for food.
This goes far beyond nectar for bees and butterflies….
Dave and I lived one block from an entrance to The High Line. This celebrated, mostly native garden transformed an abandoned, elevated freight rail line into a public park that’s become a model for environmental sustainability and urban renewal. Sarah and Dave on The High …
The Marketing Agency is Our Own Front Lawn It’s the trashy parts of towns where people are most likely to encounter a native garden. The old dump site that’s now a restored wetland. The flood zone reborn as a rain garden. A vacant lot transformed …