Providing Shelter for Garden Wildlife

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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If you are aiming to make your garden a Certified Wildlife Habitat, you will need to provide shelter for wildlife. Erin and I talk about our favorite plants for cover and shelter. Connect With Erin Berkyto: Erin has had her hands in a garden from early childhood and she has tended to her own garden for over 13 years. Erin is passionate about seed-to-plate food and urban wildlife gardening. She grows food for her family year-round in her Zone 8 urban garden which is a Certified Wildlife Habitat. Instagram Blog Pinterest Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We need cover and shelter, but so do the wildlife in our garden.
0:16.0	And if you don't have any, like I didn't when I first moved into the epic homestead,
0:21.0	there really wasn't much going on in the backyard.
0:24.0	It was a barren backyard that were two non-native trees and a weird old shed
0:28.0	and nothing was really there.
0:30.0	I saw a bird on a telephone pole, I was about it.
0:32.0	So Aaron Burkido is back in the show, the naughty garden on Instagram,
0:36.0	and she's got a Zonator-Ringardin Certified Wildlife Habitat.
0:40.0	When you said you'd been in your garden since 2017, I believe Aaron.
0:44.0	When you got there, was it developed?
0:48.0	Were there covers in place or shelter or no?
0:51.0	It was quite barren.
0:53.0	I was working with a dead soil.
0:56.0	It was a very neglected garden.
0:59.0	There are a few mature trees on my property, which I'm very thankful for,
1:05.0	and I baby those.
1:08.0	But a lot of what I have incorporated into my wildlife garden,
1:14.0	I have had to put in place myself.
1:18.0	So when it comes to cover, there's basically two reasons that you want to add cover.
1:24.0	And one is shelter from the elements and the other is protection from predators.
1:30.0	So like you said, just like we need shelter, creatures need shelter too.
1:38.0	Now, there's a few ways that you can do that in your home garden.
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