The Dirt

ANPP congratulates Avery Williams for a GOLD certified habitat in Lake Charles.

ANPP congratulates May and Jim Vidacovich for their silver certified habitat off Carmel Avenue in Lafayette.

ANPP congratulates Megan Johnson for her Bronze certified habitat in Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish!

ANPP congratulates Rachael Aloia for her bronze certified habitat! Her home is in a suburban neighborhood on the northside of Lafayette.

ANPP congratulates Jacelynn Lafleur for her bronze certified habitat on the Southside of Lafayette.

ANPP congratulates Shelli and Travis Helms for their gold certified natural habitat located on the banks of the Bayou Teche west of Jeanerette on the Old Spanish Trail.

ANPP congratulates Beth and Rusty Ferguson for achieving gold, and Suzanne and Randall McFatter for upgrading to gold down in Cameron Parish!

ANPP congratulates Beth and Rusty Ferguson for achieving gold, and Suzanne and Randall McFatter for upgrading to gold down in Cameron Parish!

Congratulations to Elise Latimer for a beautiful gold certified garden.

And ANOTHER gold certification in Acadiana! Congratulations to Kiera and Philip Frey!

ANPP congratulates Children’s Museum of Acadiana and The Autism Society of Acadiana for their upgrade to a silver-certified habitat in Downtown Lafayette!

ANPP congratulates Kathleen Simon on upgrading her certification to GOLD!

She gardens with a sense of curiosity and enjoys seeing the volunteers that pop up!

A beautiful gold certified yard in the Saints Streets!

Congratulations go to Greengate Garden Center of Lake Charles on their Bronze level certification of their native plant garden.

Created for use by the Louisiana Native Plant Society with the Acadiana Native Plant Project. Made in the style of Dan Gill's Month by Month Gardening in Louisiana, Cool Springs Press, Copyright 1999, 2006

INVASIVE PLANT of the month

My lifelong appreciation for the natural world deepened considerably a decade ago, through an enriching experience with the Acadiana Master Naturalist birding certification program.

Thanks for greauxing native, Steve, and for helping others to do so.

ANPP congratulates Patti Eaton of Lafayette for her Bronze certified habitat!