by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Sep 17, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards
Fantastic discussion last night on incorporating sustainable landscaping to not only protect our waterways, but also to promote biodiversity and healthy regional ecosystems. From the purpose of native planting to the benefits of composting, and from suggested book...
by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 31, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats, Water Quality
Beyond providing nutrition and beautifying spaces, gardens can serve many purposes, such as supporting natural processes and pollinators. Rain gardens are a type of specialty garden that help protect our waterways by managing stormwater runoff. Below are some tips ...
by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 11, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats
Long Island invented the suburban lawn. Fields of green with ornamental bushes brought in from all over the world requiring all manner of care — watering, fertilizing, pesticides — so that exotics and plants from other climates could survive here. But...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Aug 5, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Education, Fixing Habitats
Lost trees thanks to the blustering winds of Tropical Storm Isaias and wondering what to replace them with? Here are our top five suggestions of Bay Friendly Yard trees – all of which are native to Long Island. According to Frank Piccininni, Director of Habitat...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jul 24, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Creek Defender, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats
On the banks of the beautiful Carll’s River in Babylon Village, just where it crosses under Park Avenue, you will find the Carll’s River Native Forest, a Save The Great South Bay habitat restoration project established in April 2019 as a collaborative effort with the...
by Niko Nantsis | Apr 20, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Fixing Habitats
For thousands of years after the last glacial period, the American Chestnut, Castanea Dentata, dominated the eastern Deciduous Forests of the eastern United States, making up 25% to 30% of the forest canopy of Long Island’s hardwood forests. Growing over 100 to 120 ft...
