On the podcast this week Kelly and I talk to David Newsom about his Wild Yards Project. The goal of the Wild Yards Project is “to give you the inspiration and resources to re-wild your yard and to help others around you to do the same. 10,000 Species a Year Lost. 40 Million Acres of Lawn in the US. The New Wilderness Begins at Home.” During the conversation David mentions:
- Douglas Tallamy’s book Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants and his talk.
- Film that features David’s backyard
- Wild Yards Project on Instagram
- Lisa Novick interview
- Essay on the Wild Yards Project website, “A Meadow Grows in West Gloucester“
- Wild Yards Map
- Wild Yards Project newsletter (at bottom of page)
- Native plants for realtors
- The Gottlieb Native Garden: A California Love Story
- LA Natural History Museum Garden
- @plasticarmy on Instagram
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded. “If you cut down the goldenrod, the wild black cherry, the milkweed and other natives, you eliminate the larvae, and starve the birds. This simple revelation about the food web—and it is an intricate web, not a chain—is the driving force in Bringing Nature Home.” —The New York Times
the first thing i’ll do (maybe even the only thing) when I win the $970 Mega Millions jackpot tomorrow night is give a bunch of money to the Swedenborgian Church here in California.
i mean, how’s this for a wild yard, https://gardenchurchsp.org/ . right?
But before all that, i’ll first thumb print the back of my winning ticket. then take a photo of it in front of the bathroom mirror. then drive to Kinko’s 24 hrs store to make copies of winning ticket front and back, then get home and hide it (where it’s water proof, fire proof and rip proof, basically indestructible ).
then just chill, for a day or two, then
make an appointment with a tax, trust and estate, qualified attorney from a medium size law firm here in California. set up trusts (i don’t know what types yet, that’s up to my lawyers), then after ANONYMITY is secured & finalized, which I hope will only be a couple of weeks,
then I’ll (or my lawyers) will finally sign the ticket in order to claim it.
Once claimed, i’ll informed my attorneys to give a significant sum to the Swedenborgian Church here in California. as their benefactor, I’ll finally get a face-to-face meeting with whoever is in charge,
and I’ll give him/her/they an offer they can’t refuse,
if you want more of that free money, I only ask one thing from you, bring down the Church of Scientology.
yup just one mission. I’ll encourage them to continue what they’re doing, cool architecture, great Christian message, inclusiveness, openness, etc. etc.
Just construct your next cool Churches right smack next to Scientology centers.
And that’s how i’ll spend my Mega Millions jackpot, all inspired by RootSimple.com. LOL! thank you.