Buy native plants at Plantstock! Learn about them, about native meadows, about the invasive plants now threatening Long Island and its native habitats, meet fellow plant people, become part of e GROWING movement!
At The Long Island Conservancy, Fall Planting Day takes place on Columbus Day (or Indigenous Peoples Day), on the second Monday of October. It is at this time of year when we plant for the spring, planting all that needs to be planted. Because there is no school on that day, it is a great day to log some service time, whether that involves harvesting native wildflower seeds, constructing a bioswale, or planting rare American Chestnut saplings.
At The Long Island Conservancy, it is our mission to teach communities how to create native habitat, how to restore local nature. Our local species are depending on us.
Bay Shore Beautification, an organization newly formed to bring green practices and native greenery to the community, is hosting a public discussion of how that could be achieved, whether in the community's parks and public spaces or in one's own yard.
Spring Planting is a time of hope, excitement, and doubt. Is this planned right? Have I chosen the right plants for where I want them? Are you ready to plant native? If so, what needs to be learned, or forgotten?
Arbor Day: Plant Native Trees and A Lot of Them! Post Arbor Day, on Saturday, April 27th, 10-1, come help The Long Island Conservancy as we plant an American Chestnut orchard at Meadow Croft, the historic John Roosevelt estate resting in a fork in Brown's River between Sayville and Bayport. For The Long Island Conservancy,…
As part of the remediation of McGill Pond in Blue Point, we are organizing a phragmites removal on Wednesday March 6th between 9-12.
https://longislandconservancy.org/2024/10/06/plantstock-native-gardening/ Native Gardening: A Community Effort Plantstock is a gathering at Hamlet Organic Garden in Brookhaven Hamlet centered around native gardening. It’s aim is to bring together native plant lovers and environmental advocates from all over Long Island so that we together can continue to build a movement centered around habitat restoration and local stewardship in…
Come out to Meadow Croft on Monday, November 11th, Veteran's Day 10-1, and help tend to our native plants as we approach winter. Learn about them, about The American Chestnut, a tree we are helping to rescue from extinction, about Spotted Lanternflies, and how we can combat them.
April is a great time to plant milkweed seedlings! Come to Hamlet Organic Garden and stock up on three varieties of native milkweed, and help the Monarchs while doing battle against The Spotted Lanternfly!
As we perhaps know, Arbor Day is Friday, April 25th, 2025. But as with Earth Day, we have to ask, well what about the remaining 364 days? Can't every day be Arbor Day? Trees work 24X7X365 to filter and oxygenate our air, and filter our groundwater with their roots. They feed countless species. Arbor Day…
Soil health is essential to forest health. But what constitutes soil health? Biologist Frank Piccininni takes us on a journey to the life underground at West Hills County Park. There, he will show how fungal networks help determine the composition of the forest above, what trees and plants flourish where, and how invasive plants disturb the order of things below and therefore above.
Come to SMLI on May 10th for Mother Nature Day! Come see how we are working to restore Nature at Leeds Pond Preserve! Get Mom some native pollinators for Mother's Day! A day for mothers, for family, and for nature!
