What can I do?
- Contact us with any questions or recommendations for books and field guides: [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected]
- Make observations at home about the creatures you see in your backyard. This doesn’t have to be fancy, simply commit to spending 5-10 minutes watching some flowers or vegetables and see what you observe.
- Join our mailing lists to find out about upcoming events on this topic at: https://hvfarmhub.org/newsletters/& https://hvfarmscape.org/join-our-email-list
- Check out our Blog to learn more about our latest research or projects. Click here to sign up.
- Attend natural history lectures such as those by Eagle Hill, the North Branch Nature Center and the Northern Forest Atlas Project; subscribe to Northern Woodlands at https://northernwoodlands.org/shop/subscriptions.
- Learn more about farming practices used to produce your food( visit farms, talk to farmers, look at product labels etc)
- Learn how to identify turtles and learn about the habitats they use and how to consider mowing/not mowing along forest edges for their conservation.
- Watch our presentations by the research collaborative at a 2019 event here: https://hvfarmhub.org/perspectives-on-farming-with-nature/
- Consider building nest boxes. Identify if you have good bluebird or kestrel habitat at your home or in your community and consider building nest boxes on your land to provide nesting habitat
- Learn to identify both pests and beneficials in your garden or farm and learn about their role in the ecosystem. Xerces “farming with beneficial insects” is just one example of a resource https://www.xerces.org/publications/books/farming-with-native-beneficial-insects
- Find some group of organisms that you connect with – butterflies, mosses, wildflowers, birds, crayfish… and follow your passion. It doesn’t really matter where you start tugging on the strings of ecology so long as you do start tugging.
- Read books on this topic such as Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy, we are happy to recommend others!
- Get involved in your local Cornell Master Gardeners program here: http://ulster.cce.cornell.edu/gardening/master-gardener-program