On loan from the North Carolina Botanical Garden, this exhibit will be on display at the Town of Davidson Parks and Rec Building (865 South St) from April 24-May 9. Bring a mask and your curiosity to learn all about the importance of pollinators. This exhibit is appropriate for ALL AGES.
Help keep Davidson yards and natural spaces free from invasive plant species!
Stay at Home Weed Pull – Clearing the way for native plants! What is it? Before the Stay at Home order, Davidson Lands Conservancy (DLC) and the Town of Davidson planned to host a second community event at Beaty Park to further remove invasive plant species, in partnership with Weed Wrangle®, a program that helps
During this time of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and our current stay-at-home order, people are spending many hours puttering in their yards enjoying this gorgeous spring weather. So we wanted to provide a few tips for helping our water, air, and biological diversity just by adjusting the way your interact with your lawn!
For the first day of VIRTUAL EARTH WEEK, I'd like to share 2 fun facts. 1) It is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! Let's make our Earth proud! 2) It's the 20th anniversary for Davidson Lands Conservancy! We're so thankful for the 300+ acres of land we've been able to protect! Many of our
Both DLC and World of Wonder (WOW) had booths at Woodlawn School's STEAMfest on Sunday, January 26. The event was free and open to the public and multiple buildings were filled with cool science activities for folks of all ages. DLC had a butterfly life cycle game for children to learn through play how
Each year at Fisher Farm, 2nd graders from Woodlawn School, led by their enthusiastic science teacher, Kathy Denham, make flags to mark important monarch habitat. Monarch butterflies must lay their eggs on milkweed plants. The caterpillar larvae eat the leaves of the milkweed, which is toxic to most other animals, and develop their own
What a beautiful afternoon in Abersham Park October 21st! Thank you to all those who helped DLC celebrate Davidson’s recent designation as a Bee City USA. Phyllis Stiles, the founder of the Xerces Society’s programs Bee City USA, spoke with great passion about the interconnectedness of all kinds of pollinators and the plants they
With the assistance of the Davidson Land Conservancy, the Town of Davidson was just named a Bee City by Bee City USA. Bee City USA is a nonprofit national organization that fosters ongoing dialogue in urban areas to raise awareness of the role pollinators play in sustaining 3/4 of the world's plant species and what
Native bees play an important role in pollination.
