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For the last two years of his life, my dad lived in a Yakima nursing home. His room faced a courtyard garden where many of the residents hung bird feeders.

One January day, my husband and I set off on a walk around our neighborhood. The temperature was a bone-chilling negative 19 degrees and although we worked to get our

Grow your garden: Design a bird-friendly landscape

Grow your garden: Design a bird-friendly landscape

Adding these 13 plants, not bird feeders, could save the birds Jeanette Marantos © (Tammy Kokjohn) A Lawrences goldfinch. Finches are very social feeders and tend to be hit by diseases at backyard feeding stations, hence seeding plants are a safer food source. (Tammy Kokjohn) Attention wildlife fans: If you want to help support wild bird populations, you might want to rethink the bird feeder. Because of a vicious salmonellosis outbreak this winter, wildlife officials in multi...

Bird feeders have been deadly for songbirds, due to a salmonella outbreak, but there are safer and better ways to attract birds to your garden space. Native blooms, grasses and shrubs naturally nourish.

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us It ain’t easy being a bee these days. With the introduction of genetically modified crops, stronger, more powerful, and prevalent pesticides, and a rapidly changing climate, bee colonies are quickly disappearing. According to the urban beekeeping organization, Honeylove, after WWII, there were 5 million honeybee colonies; today the...

Print Attention wildlife fans: Bird feeders are killing songbirds, thanks to a vicious salmonellosis outbreak this winter. Wildlife officials in multiple Western states issued warnings earlier this year that so many birds are dying, the safest plan is to take down all our feeders, at least for now, so they’ll stop congregating and spreading the disease. So it’s time for a new strategy to attract and support our feathered friends: creating habitat in our garden space — whether it’s a ba...