Many people are hard at work preserving, restoring, and educating us about our native ecosystems. Here are just a few works on native plants, pollinators, and better connecting with the land we call home.

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Recommended books

• The Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region by Rick Gray
• Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants by Heather Holm
• A Garden for the Rusty Patched Bumblebee by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla
• Concrete Botany by Joey Santore
• The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
• Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask by Mary Siisip Geniusz
• Finding the Mother Tree, and When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard
• Bringing Nature Home, The Living Landscape, and Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy
• The Serviceberry, Braiding Sweetgrass, and Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Recommended websites

• Butterflies and Moths of North America https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
• Canadian Wildlife Federation https://cwf-fcf.org/assets/CertificationApplicationForm_en.pdf 
• Heather Holm’s website http://www.pollinatorsnativeplants.com
• Minnesota Wildflowers (many natives shared with Ontario) https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/
• Monarch Watch monarchwatch.org
• Native Plant Trust https://plantfinder.nativeplanttrust.org/
• Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library Youtube for sowing native plants https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTeCEgkqHLQHvEIKcdL4RLA
• Pollination Guelph https://www.pollinationguelph.ca/ has great resources on caring for a native plant garden.
• Pollinator Pathway https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/map 
• Rick Gray’s website https://nativeplantgardener.ca/

Ontario native plant nurseries

• Prairie Song, Port Rowan ON, https://www.facebook.com/prairiesongnursery/
• Native Plants in Claremont, Pickering ON, https://nativeplants.ca/
• Ontario Native Plants, Hamilton ON, https://onplants.ca/
• Northern Wildflowers (seeds only), Sudbury ON, https://northernwildflowers.ca/
• Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library (seeds, free), Ottawa ON, https://wildflowerseedlibrary.ca/
• Guelph Seed Library (seeds, free), https://www.facebook.com/groups/GuelphSeedLibrary

Organizations to support

• Bruce Trail Conservancy
• Credit Valley Conservation
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Finch Research Network
• Homegrown National Parks
• Nature Guelph
• Ontario Nature
• Ontario Provincial Parks
• Parks Canada
• Wildlife Federation of Canada
• Wild Ones