Realistic weed management for everyone͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
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pink flowering weeds and weedy grasses

Subscriber First Name, are you sick of weeding yet?

It's that time of year. (For some of us, it's always that time of year.) Weeds can drive you nuts, but there doesn’t seem to be much advice out there between the two extremes of “sure, you can pull them all by hand” and “go ahead, spray that toxic mess from the big box store”.

Join Sustainability Matters on Monday, July 25 at 7 pm for In the Weeds: Realistic Weed Management, a no-holds-barred virtual discussion on environmentally responsible, realistic weed management. We're warning you now: there's no magic bullet, and you won't achieve perfection. However, you can learn..

  • Priorities: which weeds are worth going after?

  • Get them when they're weak: optimizing impact by understanding growing cycles

  • Safer techniques for you and the environment

  • Tradeoffs: did we mention there's no magic bullet? Choose strategies to maximize success while minimizing environmental damage

This will be a virtual Zoom webinar, with time for Q & A. It's free, but space is limited, and registration is required here.

tiny spotted frog in person's hand

This juvenile pickerel frog (Lithobates palustris) wants everyone to learn to keep him safe while dealing with invasive weeds

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butterflies on pink milkweed flower

Monarchs aren’t the only butterflies who love milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), the most desirable of “weeds” (this isn’t one we’re getting rid of!)

Big Bug Bioblitz

Want to help out with Sustainability Matters’ Making Trash Bloom project or our new initiative, Mowing for Monarchs (maintaining milkweed intensive areas to maximize monarch butterfly habitat)? Join us, Mountain Vista Governor’s School, and the State Arboretum of Virginia for a Big Bug Bioblitz led by Smithsonian entomologist Jim McNeil! Data collection and analysis are a huge part of scaling up projects like these, and we’ll be counting and collecting insects (and plants) all morning on Thursday, August 18, at the Shenandoah County Landfill. Get the deets here. Much buggy fun will be had by all.

Monarch caterpillar at the Shenandoah County Landfill Making Trash Bloom site

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