Living in Harmony with Nature
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Meet the Wiggly Hungry Worm
Ready for some hands on fun learning experience!
Date: Saturday, June 8th
Time: 12:00pm–1:00pm -
Healthy and Lush Gardens Begin Here!
Help your gardens thrive in the summer months!
Date: Saturday, June 8th
Time: Noon – 1pm
Location: Broadlands Nature Center -
Bring Monarchs Home
Raise and Release Monarch Butterflies Program
Date: Sunday, June 16 Time:10:00 a.m.
Address: Broadlands Community Center 43008 Waxpool Rd, Broadlands Available space: 25/All ages (free) -
“The Bug Man” Brings Mother Nature’s Miracles
“The Bug Man” Brings Mother Nature’s Miracles
Date:Saturday, July 13th
Time: Noon- 1:30 P.M.
Location: Broadlands Nature Center -
Annual Sunscreen Safety Guide
Some 65 sunscreens advertised for babies and kids contain oxybenzone, a synthetic chemical that absorbs the sun’s rays but also readily penetrates the skin. It can disrupt the body’s natural hormones.
Seasonal, Healthy & Practical Diet
What’s for Dinner?
“The explosive growth in market share for organic produce in recent years testifies to a simple fact that pesticide companies and the farmers who use their products just can’t seem to grasp: people don’t like to eat food contaminated by pesticides,” said EWG president Ken Cook. “Our shopper’s guide to pesticides in produce gives consumers easy, affordable ways to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables while avoiding most of the bug killers, fungicides and other chemicals in produce and other foods.”
Nutty and Sweet Beet Salad
Beets are an excellent source of hearth-healthy folate and a very good source of the antioxidants manganese and vitamin C as well as heart-healthy potassium. Beets are a good source of digestive-supportive dietary fiber, free radical scavenging copper, bone-healthy magnesium, and energy-producing iron and phosphorus.
Best Time to Buy From Farmers Market
Buy Direct from the Farmer!
Shop the LVHMA Ashburn and Brambleton Markets. Buy fresh local fruit, vegetables, and more…
Meet Your Native Plants
American Beauties
Native plant experts and wildlife experts have teamed up to create four gardens guaranteed to bring life to your landscape by providing food and habitat for a variety of desirable critters.
Time to Plant Virginia Native Bulbs
Planting in this area starts in mid to late October for most bulbs. Planting after the first hard frost (late October or early November) is best for tulips. Bulbs are not shipped after early December, so plan accordingly. There are some exceptions to fall planting – Colchicum is best planted by early fall before it blooms. Planting Depth and Width – Use the general three times rule when planting most dormant bulbs Plant about 3 times the height of the bulb (measured from the soil surface down to the tip of the bulb). Space bulbs at least three times their width apart. Actual planting depth can vary from about2 times to 4 times the height of the bulb – bulbs…
Getting to Know Paw Paw
Pawpaw season will arrive soon in the Eastern US. So just what is a pawpaw, other than something many of us sang about as children? And what the heck does one taste like? It’s actually an interesting story… The Common Pawpaw is the northernmost New World representative of a chiefly tropical family, which includes the popular tropical fruits Annona, Custard-apple, Sugar-apple, and Soursop. It produces the largest edible fruit indigenous to North America. The plant has large oblong leaves and many observers think it looks like a tropical plant, although it is native to over 25 states in the eastern U.S. It’s generally found in patches in well-drained, deep, fertile bottom-land and hilly upland habitat. The wild…
Beard Tongue
Penstemon albidus Nutt. White penstemon.
A stout, erect, 8-12 in. perennial with broad, rough leaves and a densely flowered spike of large, tubular blossoms. Flowers are white, sometimes with a pale pinkish or bluish tube.











