On a beautiful, sunny Friday afternoon in late October, staff members from Maine Audubon, Portland Parks, U.S. Forest Service, Maine TREE Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy gathered in Portland to visit some of Maine’s biggest trees right here in “Forest City.” While all of us on the tour …
Bringing Nature Home
Native Plants Sale: 2022 season wrap-up
End of Sale! The 2022 Maine Audubon Bringing Nature Home Plant Sale has come to a close. We’ve had another wonderful season growing, selling, and planting native plants. Thousands of plants were sent to new homes all around Maine, providing critical habitat for wildlife. Thank you! We’d …
Last chance: Fall native plants sale (with 20% off)!
After another tremendous season, the 2022 Bringing Nature Home Plant Sale is coming to a close. The last day for ordering your native plants will be Friday, September 30, with final pickups occurring the following Thursday (October 6) and Friday (October 7) curbside at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth. …
Keep hummingbirds happy with native plants
Late summer is a wonderful time for observing Ruby-throated Hummingbirds foraging in the garden, and an even better time for planning fall plantings to benefit your visiting hummingbirds next summer. There are many native plants that hummingbirds utilize for food, and providing a variety of these …
September: The ideal month for planting native plants in Maine
The nights are cooler, the dew point is higher, and the soil is warmer: we have made it to September, the ideal month for planting in Maine! What makes it ideal? Plants that go in the ground this month have a few weeks to settle, root out a little, and become dormant for winter. Plants planted …
Maine Audubon Releases Guide to Habitat Restoration and Native Plantings for Solar Development
Thanks in large part to incentives put in place by Governor Mills in 2019, clean, renewable solar energy is cropping up all across Maine. From fewer than 100 MW of solar energy on the ground in Maine in 2019, there are more than 525 MW installed today. Maine is on track to meet its clean energy …
Help Monarchs, Plant Milkweed!
Monarchs are on decline across much of North America. This is due to a myriad of factors including habitat loss; use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicide; and climate change. One of the best things YOU can do is plant milkweed host plants and nectar-rich native perennials. Maine …
Bringing Nature Home with the Portland Youth Corps
Our Bringing Nature Home staff had the pleasure of working with Portland Youth Corps and Portland Trails recently on restoration landscape practices! Portland Youth Corps members assisted with the removal of invasive plants along the Portland Arts and Technology High School Trail in the Portland …
Online plants sales kick off; plus top five trees and shrubs to plant right now!
Thanks to all who were able to attend Maine Audubon’s 2022 Native Plants Festival & Sale! It was so nice to see you all in person for the first time since 2019. We sold upwards of 3000 plants! A warm thanks to all the attendees, volunteers, and of course our fantastic presenters. If you were …