Photo by Luke French
This is our incomplete list of continuing education resources, with room to grow. We commit to updating it as we continue learning.
Plant Databases
Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center – Native plant database
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Database – Plant database with county level mapping
Illinois Wildflowers – Illinois-focused native plant database, especially useful for learning faunal associations
Reference Books
Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard by Sharon Sorenson
Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees by Charlotte Adelman & Bernard L. Schwartz
Go Native! Gardening with Native Plants and Wildflowers in the Lower Midwest by Carolyn Harstad
The Natural Heritage of Indiana by Marion T. Jackson
Habitats and Ecological Communities of Indiana: Presettlement to Present edited by John O. Whitaker Jr. & Charles J. Amlaner Jr.
Planted & Lowland Trees in Historic New Harmony by Thomas H. Cervone PhD and Rusty K. Yeager
Articles & Interviews
The Myth of the Thicket-less Prairie by Solomon Gamboa, Indigenous Landscapes LLC
📹 Inside America’s Healthiest Yards: Edwina von Gal’s Marshouse
📹 Inside America’s Healthiest Yards: Rebecca McMackin’s Secret Garden
📹 Inside America’s Healthiest Yards: Filippine Hoogland’s Meadow Magic
Book Learnin’
Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
The Nature of Oaks by Douglas Tallamy
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Wild Plants in Flower: Deciduous Forest by Torkel Korling & Robert O. Petty
The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
The End of Night by Paul Bogard
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gathering Moss : A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Trees in Far Places
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
Fight for the Forest: Chico Mendes in His Own Words by Chico Mendes
Sounds of the Forest – A worldwide forest soundmap crowdsourced by Wild Rumpus
tree.fm – Forest radio using the Sounds of the Forest recordings (above), created in 2020 by Kai Nicolaides at New Now