MAINE MONITOR • May 31, 2024
Our home sits on about an acre of land on the Megunticook River in Camden, and we bought it in late fall, so the landscape has been mostly dormant during our time here so far. In the past six weeks or so, it’s come alive. Our hope is to restore much of this property into a more natural meadow, with space to walk, play and grow food. One way to achieve the most resilient and pollinator-friendly version of this transformation, experts say, is to cultivate native plant species. “When we talk about non-native plants, it’s not that they’re evil plants,” said Tyler Refsland of the Wild Seed Project, a Maine-based nonprofit. “A lot of them are highly successful, like dandelions…they’re edible, they have a lot of uses and even some pollinators use them.”