Ridge Notes: Recent Episodes
Chris Kline
Ridge Notes is a podcast that discusses issues involving pollinators and native plant conservation. Here you will learn about gardening with natives, how to attract pollinators, the latest, and most accurate, information about the monarch butterfly, and more!
Enjoy listening to the life of a farm wife. This is an excerpt from the journal of Alice Kline dated April, 1942.
While learning about pollinators from books and presentations has great value, sometimes the best teacher is going out and observing first hand what is going on around you. Visit our YouTube channel ((72) Chris Kline - YouTube) to get started in developing your observation skills.
Join us as we finish our zoom interview with Marcus Gray of Sustainable Monarchs. We also discuss his upcoming Butterfly World Series event.
Join us as we chat with Marcos Gray of Sustainable Gray. Our discussion will focus on his past work with Monarchs in the Rough, as well as his current projects including Sustainable Monarch and the Butterflying World Series, both being efforts to create monarch habitat and support other organizations that are doing the same.
While there are a lot of controversial topics in the pollinator community, the one thing we can all agree upon is everybody's favorite pollinator . . . the moth!!
Over the course of America's history we have converted an area the size of Illinois from wild land to lawn. Unfortunately, lawn is a sterile habitat, providing pollinators very little. In this episode we discuss some methods to convert your lawn to something helpful, from the pollinator perspective.
In this episode we discuss the role of nativars in your pollinator garden; what are they and is there a place for them. We also discuss the value of native plants and how Butterfly Ridge has quadrupled it's butterfly population through the strategic use of native plants. And, we ask that you spread the word about our success!
The honor of Tropical Milkweed has been impugned for the last few years for reasons that are not entirely true. In this episode we take an objective look at the positive benefits, and the downside, of planting Tropical Milkweed in your home landscape.
This episode is the first of a two part interview with Gail Morris, coordinator of the Southwest Monarch Study. In this interview we discuss the status of the monarch butterfly, not only in the desert southwest but across the country.
In this third episode of Ridge Notes we discuss pollination; what it is, who does it, and what are the consequences if we do not take good care of our pollinators.
America has a great love affair with mowing. In this episode we discuss how mowing impacts the pollinators attempting to live on your site, and how the timing of your mowing is critical.
Ridge Notes is a production of Butterfly Ridge Butterfly Conservation Center and is hosted by center director Chris Kline. In our inaugural episode, Chris introduces himself and shares a little bit about his background and training. We will also discuss why Butterfly Ridge is the perfect setting to discuss pollinators and the natural world. We will conclude this episode with a preview of the format of the podcast and how you, the listener, can get involved.