Plant Native - Native Plant: Restoring Creation

Native Planting is a Sacrament

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation. The point is, when we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament; when we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration… in such desecration, we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Wendell Berry, “The Gift of Good Land.” Pages 296-311 in The Art of Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2002), p 298.

What’s Native in My Area and Where Can I Find and Purchase Native Plants?

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What creation-care issues are we facing?

Identifying Native Species on Your Campus

• The Environmental Justice Committee of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church visions the best way to draw attention to native species is to identify them on our own campus.
• Each native planting on BMPC’s campus will be identified, marked, and the marker will provide a QR code link that offers further information on the native plant, including a photo.
• Following will be a period of congregational education and engagement, explaining why native species are important, and how to proceed to adding native species to existing home plantings.

How do I do this? Help me plant native!

• Landscaping with Native Plants
• A Way To Garden
• Local, native plant sales
• Facebook Group PA Native Plant Gardening
• Balcony Planting

Local Recommendations for Native Plants

• Visit Home Grown National Park for a comprehensive list of natives by state and region.

Before and After Planting Native Plants