native plants - The Handbuilt City

Wishes For A Greener Spring

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike rides, bikes, bplant, butterflies, city of detroit parks, climate, climate change, dequindre cut, Detroit, detroit greenways coalition, detroit parks, detroit riverfront conservancy, duggan, gas-powered lawn equipment, jefferson chalmers, joe louis greenway, justin fenwick, lawnmower, michigan, mike duggan, mowing, native landscaping, native plants, native wildflowers, native wildgrasses, no-mow may, parks & rec, pollinator habitat, pollinators, rain garden, rain gardens, rukiya colvin, southwest detroit

The advent of warm weather! The return of street fairs! The sniffles from spring allergies! And ever so much more.

Public Safety Infrastructure Small Business Streetscaping

New Grand River Streetscaping: Safer, Slower, Greener

May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bike lanes, black-owned business, crosswalk, crosswalks, Detroit, effect of streetscaping on public safety, garden stores, gardening, gardening store, gilmour garden tools, grand army of the republic building detroit, grand river, grand river avenue, grandmont-rosedale, highland park, home depot, local business, maumee lake region, native plants, neighborhood investment, north rosedale park, pages bookshop, pedestrian safety, public safety, raised crosswalks, street safety, streetscaping and public safety, tina castleberry, traffic violence

New streetscaping improvements have turned portions of Grand River Avenue, on Detroit’s West Side, from a street-level freeway into something more closely resembling a real city street that people might be able to safely hang out and shop on.

Environment

Ready For The Warm Weather? Spring Into Native Plants!

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alex zorach, andropogon gerardii, are lawns bad, backyard ecology, biodiversity, bioregional, bioregions, bplant, chasmanthium latifolium, coreopsis, daisy family, ecological restoration, erigeron canadensis, fleabane, gardening, gardening 101, gardens, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, habitat restoration, horseweed, lawns, native ecology, native grasses, native plants, native wildflowers, nursery, prairie grasses, prairie moon, prairie moon nursery, root systems, schizachyrium scoparium, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass, tallgrass prairie, toledo, toledo prairie restoration, upper mississippi, upper mississippi country, why lawns are bad, wildflowers

A couple of weeks ago, we received our Prairie Moon Nursery catalog of native plants and seeds in the mail.