Laurie Rollins Anderson Media

09/19/2026

09/16/2026

Repost from Wildr Places
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They’re called leaves. Take the hint.
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That layer under your trees and shrubs is not finished with the season. It can be shelter for overwintering moths, butterflies, fireflies, bumblebees, and plenty of other small lives waiting for spring.

You don’t have to leave every leaf exactly where it falls. Move them off paths and patches of lawn, tuck them into beds and under trees, and keep them whole when you can.

Less cleanup. More life. 🦋

What happens to the leaves at your place?

07/17/2026

My personal picks for design advice and signs: Audubon Mid-Atlantic, Pollinator Partnership, Wild Ones and The Xerces Society

repost from Wildr Places

🫶 A “messy” native yard and an intentional one can have the exact same plants. The difference is a few small design cues. 🪧🐝🌿
This week’s free challenge is hosted by landscape designer Leslie Needham, who’s sharing the “cues to care” that turn a wildlife garden into something neighbors read as cared for, not neglected.

Here’s the task: pick one or two cues and add them this week. A mowed or mulched path through your native plantings. Crisp edges along the wilder areas. A bench close enough to watch the pollinators work. A simple sign explaining what you’re growing and why.

✨ Tip: a sign is one of the fastest cues you can add, and it starts the conversation before your neighbor even has to ask. Check the Week 11 challenge email for resources for yard signs we love!

Want to see intentional garden design done well in real life? The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program opens hundreds of private gardens across the country to visitors all season. Look for the “Nibbled Leaf” icon to know that the owner is committed to Perfect Earth Project’s ecological practices. Nothing builds your design instincts like walking one yourself. 🌸

Want to explore yards virtually? Check out the free Wildr Places app 👉 joinwildr.com

Less Lawn More Life is a free 12-week challenge that helps people transform their yards into thriving wildlife habitat, one simple action at a time.
Join anytime and start from the beginning 👉 lesslawnmorelife.com

07/16/2026

Repost from LESS LAWN MORE LIFE 🌱

🌿 Many call it “yard waste,” but nature calls it habitat. Fallen branches, leaves, and twigs aren’t trash. They’re food for your soil and shelter for wildlife. The best part? The solution is simply doing less. 🪵🐦

This week, the free challenge is hosted by Edwina von Gal, founder of Perfect Earth Project. She’s encouraging us to rethink what we throw away and see the value in what our yards naturally produce.

Here’s the task: Leave your fallen branches where they belong, or gather them into a brush pile, “wren tent,” or sculptural habitat. As it slowly breaks down, it feeds your soil while creating a safe place for birds, insects, and other wildlife.

✨ Tip: Everything your yard produces is biologically suited to the plants growing there. Keeping leaves, twigs, and branches on site helps build healthier soil and reduces the need for imported mulch or fertilizers.

Less Lawn More Life is a free 12-week challenge that helps people transform their yards into thriving wildlife habitat, one simple action at a time.
Join anytime and start from the beginning 👉 lesslawnmorelife.com

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07/16/2026

Repost from LESS LAWN MORE LIFE 🌱

Most people plant Common Milkweed for the Monarch. That’s a great reason. But it’s not the whole story. 🦋

Asclepias syriaca supports 25 moth and butterfly species, provides nesting fibers for Baltimore Orioles, and seeds that American Goldfinches wait all summer to harvest. The Red Milkweed Beetle has spent eons evolving alongside it. One plant, one decision, that many lives.

What wildlife have you spotted on your milkweed this season? 🐛

07/16/2026

All wildlife needs water, and a lawn doesn’t give them any. The fix takes about thirty seconds. 🐸

This week, the free challenge from LESS LAWN MORE LIFE 🌱 is all about adding a water feature — hosted by none other than Survivorman Les Stroud, who’s eaten scorpions and survived the Arctic but really just wants to help the tadpoles.

Here’s the task: add one water feature to your yard. Go all in with a full wildlife pond, or pour water into a shallow dish and make a butterfly puddling spot in thirty seconds. Both count.
Tip: drop a few pebbles in a bird bath so other wildlife can climb out. 🦎

Less Lawn More Life is a free 12-week challenge that’s turned 25,000+ yards into habitat across all 50 states and Canada.
Join anytime and start from the beginning 👉 lesslawnmorelife.com

06/25/2026

Repost from Wildr Places
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Most invasives share one weakness. They’re on a different schedule than the ecosystem they invaded. Learn their timing. ✂️🌿 Cut woody invasives in winter when natives are dormant. Pull annual invasives before they set seed. Mow once or twice a year to weaken what you can’t fully remove yet.

06/25/2026

Half of America’s rivers and streams are too polluted to swim, fish, or drink from. 💧🎣☣️
And most of that pollution isn’t coming from factories. It’s coming from us: lawn chemicals, runoff, the water that sheets off our roofs and driveways straight into the storm drain.
This week is hosting Challenge 8 of the challenge, a free 12-week program where 25,000+ people are turning their yards into real habitat. Bringing it home to the thing that connects all of us: WATER.
A watershed is all the land that drains to the same body of water. You live in one. You drink from one. And you’re downstream (and upstream) of everyone else in it.
So here’s the challenge. First, learn your watershed’s name. Open Wildr Places, or go to mywaterway.epa.gov and type in your address. Then do one thing to keep it clean and close: redirect a downspout into a garden bed, skip the synthetic fertilizer, plant deep-rooted natives that soak up runoff, or join a local creek cleanup.
No yard? You still drink this water. Learn your watershed, tell a neighbor, show up.
In partnership with , the clean-water watchdogs keeping local waters swimmable and fishable. Find yours at waterkeeper.org.
Join free anytime at LessLawnMoreLife.com and you’ll start from Step 1.

06/21/2026

Yesterday was Day w/ Diane Parsons-central! Here are the stripes for Baltimore MD since 1850. 🌎

The iconic warming stripes visualize more than a century of temperature change. Each stripe represents a year:

🔵 Blue stripes indicate cooler-than-average years
🔴 Red stripes indicate hotter-than-average years

Viewed together, the progression from blue to increasingly deep red illustrates the rapidly increasing warming observed over the past century and especially in recent decades due to human-caused .

🔗Download and share custom stripes for U.S. states, cities, and more using ’s new Warming Stripes Dashboard at the link in bio.

06/08/2026

I’m going on Saturday night! Join me! 🧚🧚‍♀️

Repost from Motte & Bailey, prod.
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Oh no! You don’t have your tickets yet for this Summer’s Do-Not-Miss event: Midsummer / Bowie Elton Queen? Shhhh, don’t say it out loud, the Fae will hear you! Just run right over to the Motte & Bailey website now and grab them quietly. Better grab 5 or 6 while you’re there. Who knows you might make some friends on the night. www.motteandbailey.org