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The Inside Garden

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Nature Interpreter Allyson knows it’s still cold outside, but spring is on its way! Want to live like it’s spring? With a little ingenuity, and a window, spring can start inside long before winter’s end. Learn how you can begin your own inside garden with these gardening tips.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

How to Start a Pollinator Garden

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Did you know that pollinators like bees and butterflies are essential to our food supply? But sometimes these small creatures need help accessing their favorite foods. You can help by creating your own pollinator garden at home. Follow these gardening tips to help local pollinators and our natural environment.

4 Trails Where You Can Take a Time Out

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After what seems like the longest winter ever, the sun is starting to peek out and the days are getting warmer. Looking for a new place to get outside and explore? Take a time out away from screens and completely immerse yourself in nature on these trails at Great Parks.

A Chickadee is in the midst of landing at a bird feeder.

Gardening for the Birds

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Bird feeders are a good source of food for birds and can bring joy to bird watchers. Nature Interpreter Ellen shares how using native plants around bird feeders will create a more holistic and safer habitat for local birds.

Why I Went to the Woods

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Have you noticed an odor in the air recently? It’s none other than skunks. You might consider skunks offensively odiferous, but for Education Manager Suzanne, it marks the start of the sweetest season in nature: maple sugaring season.

Racoon tracks on a log in the snow.

Nature Journaling #255: How to Identify Animal Tracks

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Join us in keeping a nature journal throughout 2021. This is your journal, something to help you connect to the natural world around you and make discoveries along the way. Don’t worry, we will give you a new prompt here regularly!

Jars of freshly made maple sugar line a table covered with a red-checked table cloth. The maple syrup in the jars ranges from an amber color to a deep brown.

Recipes: 7 Maple Sugar Sweets & Treats to Make This Winter

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It’s the sweetest time of the year at Great Parks. As the freezing nights give way to warmer days, the sap starts to flow and maple season is officially underway! Nature Interpreter Stephanie shares some crowd favorite maple recipes that go beyond pancakes.