{"id":241,"date":"2025-04-06T22:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:36:59","slug":"woodys-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/woodys-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Plants Bring Nature Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Friends of Ravenna-Cowen advocate for maintaining our historic heritage AND our natural heritage.&nbsp; This latest blog speaks to the latter with insights on how each of us can contribute to increasing the diversity of plants and wildlife in our urban environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author, Woody Wheeler, is a neighbor and passionate conservationist. He makes a compelling case for why adding native plants to your garden is important, and offers simple steps you can take to enhance your yard and\/or garden and do something good for the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the plantings at our neighborhood traffic circle on 17<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;\u2013 you might be surprised to know it is full of native plants and provides a fine example of how lovely this can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please access the blog thru this link, or copy and paste to your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-conservation-catalyst wp-block-embed-conservation-catalyst\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Nayblkbbrc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conservationcatalyst.org\/native-plants-bring-nature-home\/\">Native Plants Bring Nature Home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Native Plants Bring Nature Home&#8221; &#8212; Conservation Catalyst\" src=\"https:\/\/conservationcatalyst.org\/native-plants-bring-nature-home\/embed\/#?secret=yfTnsM3KWh#?secret=Nayblkbbrc\" data-secret=\"Nayblkbbrc\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also&nbsp;give&nbsp;you the option to follow his monthly blog with a wide range of topics that help inspire our understanding and appreciation of our natural world. Woody will also be leading two bird&nbsp;walks in Ravenna Park in May so keep your eyes out for the registration opportunity on the FORC website.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofravennacowen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}