Destination Unknown Brewery 's For Science Speaker Series continues this Saturday April 8th between 1-4 with " Going Native on Long Island. "
"Planting native plants while removing the invasive ones is the key to Long Island's environmental future." REGISTER HERE FOR THE MAY 18th 7 PM TALK AT SAYVILLE LIBRARY Marshall Brown, Executive Director, The Long Island Conservancy, will share with us the benefits of using plants native to Long Island in our yards and gardens. Native…
The Long Island Conservancy will be selling native plants at Summerfest Saturday August 3rd on Main Street in Sayville. See you there!
In this first episode of Little Green Shoots, a podcast dedicated to Long Island's environment and its environmentalists, we will be discussing how to effectively and inexpensively manage mosquitos without killing other insects indiscriminately in the process.
The Spotted Lanternfly has only been in the US since 2012, but it has already proven highly destructive. Vineyards on Pennsylvania have been decimated, fruit trees too, and it is heading east into Suffolk County.
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.
