Handouts and Articles

• Starting a Pollinator Garden Flyer

• Plant This Not That - A Michigan Guide for Native Plant Alternatives

• Spring Clean Up

• Fall Gardening

• Fall Planting and Tips

• Tips for Winter Sowing

• How to collect and grow milkweed grow milkweeds to help monarch and other pollinators, MSU Extension

• What is Cold Stratification?

• Useful Terminology for Native Gardening

• Leave the leaves in the Fall, Xerces Society

• Soft Landings, Heather Holm

• Picking Plants for Pollinators: The Cultivar Conundrum, Justin Wheeler - Xerces Society

• Increase Nesting Habitat for Native Bees - Xerces Society

• Guide to Bird-Friendly Gardens - Detroit Audubon

• Container Gardening With Native Plants - Missouri Botanical Garden

• Native Plant Container Gardening - Grow Native Missouri Prairie Foundation

Organizations

• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

• Pollinator Partnership

• Monarch Watch

• Homegrown National Park – Doug Tallamy

Plant and Pollinator Identifiers

• National Wildlife Federation Native Plant Finder

• Butterflies and Moths of North America

• MSU Common Bees of Michigan

• MSU Plant Finder

Books

• “100 Plants to Feed the Bees”, The Xerces Society

• “100 Plants to Feed the Monarchs”, The Xerces Society

• “A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future”, Benjamin Vogt

• “Bringing Nature Home”, Douglas W. Tallamy

• “Design Your Natural Midwest Garden”, Patricia Hill

• “Lawns Into Meadows”, Owen Wormser

• “Mini Meadows”, Mike Lizotte

• “Native Plants of the Midwest”, Alan Branhagen

• “Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Upper Midwest”, Jaret C. Daniels

• “Nature’s Best Hope”, Douglas W. Tallamy

• “Pollinator Conservation Handbook”, The Xerces Society

• “Pollinators of Native Plants”, Heather Holm

• “Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design”, Benjamin Vogt

• “Raising Butterflies in the Garden”, Brenda Dziedzic

• “The Bees in Your Backyard”, Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril

•  “The Humane Gardner”, Nancy Lawson

• “The Midwestern Native Garden - native alternatives to nonnative flowers and plants”, Charlotte Adelman & Bernard L. Schwartz

• “The Pollinator Victory Garden”, Kim Eierman
  

Habitat Certifications and Signs

• Monarch Waystation

• National Wildlife Federation – Certify Your Habitat

• Xerces Society Pollinator Habitat Signs