Welcome to the best month for planting in Maine! September offers the perfect combination of cooler nights, high dew points, warm soil, and, typically, more rainfall. Plants that go in the ground this month will have a few weeks to settle, root out a little, and become dormant for winter. Plants …
Bringing Nature Home
Nanotagging Monarch Butterflies — Very, Very Carefully — at Fields Pond
Once inside the front door of the Nature Center, summer visitors to the Fields Pond Audubon Center have been greeted by a display of Monarch Butterflies. Beginning as either eggs or small caterpillars, we collected these from the plethora of milkweed plants that grow all around the Nature Center. …
August Plants Sale Update
August 2021 Plants Sale Update: Make the dog days of this summer about cats -- caterpillars that is! August 1 always marks the halfway point of what we consider Maine’s growing and planting season (May 15 to October 15), essentially the five-month space between hard frosts. This year, the rainy …
July Plants Update: Plants for a Changing Climate
The heat has finally broken. Those final few days of June were certainly tough on people, plants, and animals. While that heat wave was clearly a weather event, it’s a good reminder that things seem to be changing much more broadly; it’s more than just record highs on specific dates and what’s doing …
It’s Mayhem: Maine Audubon is busting out all over
In the same way that blossoms started to unfurl and migratory birds began to appear, so too did restless Maine Audubon staffers, tentative at first, and then all at once in a glorious riot of activity. May was the busiest month we’ve seen in ages, in terms of our interaction with the public. …
Native plants sale begins today
The 2021 Native Plants Sale is officially underway! We’ve started taking orders at shop.mainenativeplants.org, and contactless curbside pick-ups begin this Thursday and Friday. We will run our sales and pick-ups at Gilsland Farm through September, and we will be making new plants available …
Announcing the 2021 Native Plants Sale
We are thrilled to kick off another season of plants sales, the hallmark of Maine Audubon’s "Bringing Nature Home” program. Our hoop house and farmhouse lawns are loaded up with thousands of beautiful, healthy, and organic potted Maine native plants. Just like last year, we launch online sales at …
Celebrate the wonder of trees in Maine Arbor Week
In 1978, the Maine legislature designated the third week of May “Arbor Week,” a result of successful lobbying led by a classroom of students from Dover-Foxcroft. They successfully made the case that the national Arbor Day holiday in April, which actually started as a movement to restore trees in …
Maine Audubon partners with City of Portland to create wildlife-friendly area on Franklin Street
Portlanders, remember that football-field-sized black tarp covering a field in the center of Franklin Street, between Congress and Cumberland? It was unveiled today and the City's horticulture staff will begin a transformation from lawn to urban meadow that Portlanders can watch grow literally from …