Your Backyard Habitat Archives

Make Your Yard Wild With Spring Wildflowers

03/16/2021 10AM All, Your Backyard Habitat, Parks at Home for Grownups, Going Green, Nature Academy

What better way to get excited about the arrival of spring than by adding vibrant plants to your landscape! With the help of Shaker Trace Nursery Technician Tim, we’re sharing our top five native wildflowers that are perfect for planting in early spring.

A green Antheraea Polyphemus caterpillar clings to a twig

What is a Bioblitz?

03/11/2021 3PM Your Backyard Habitat, All, Parks at Home for Grownups, Going Green, Nature Academy, From the Field

If you haven’t heard of a Bioblitz, it’s a great way to build your outdoor observation skills while helping biologists. Get outside and explore new places this spring by joining Great Parks in the 2021 City Nature Challenge.

Potted succulents are lined up on an old boot tray.

The Inside Garden

03/9/2021 10AM All, Your Backyard Habitat, Parks at Home for Grownups, Going Green, All About Food

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.

How to Start a Pollinator Garden

03/6/2021 9AM All, Your Backyard Habitat, Parks at Home for Grownups, Going Green, Nature Academy

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.

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

Gardening for the Birds

02/23/2021 12PM All, Your Backyard Habitat, Parks at Home for Grownups, Nature Academy

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

02/16/2021 8AM Your Backyard Habitat, All, Parks at Home for Grownups, All About Food, Stories, Nature Academy

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.

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

02/14/2021 1PM Your Backyard Habitat, All, Parks at Home for Grownups, All About Food

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.

An eastern bluebird perches on a spiky tree branch.

Replay: What Are Nesting Boxes?

02/3/2021 11AM Your Backyard Habitat, All, Parks at Home for Kids, Parks at Home for Grownups, Going Green, Videos, Nature Academy

Join us on our Facebook page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. Conservation & Parks Manager John shares how nesting boxes at Little Miami Golf Center help save local species. Learn more and explore Monarch Heaven with us in today’s broadcast!