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NC State’s Edible Gardens
Discover NC State’s edible garden spaces and the wide range of benefits they offer to campus and the world.![Danesha Seth Carley works in a pollinator garden in front of the clubhouse at the Pinehurst golf course.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/danesha-seth-carley-pinehurst.jpg)
Let It Bee
Horticultural science professor Danesha Seth Carley helped reintroduce native plants to the Pinehurst No. 2 golf course for its 2014 men’s and women’s U.S. Open championships. Since then, she’s focused on bringing bees back to Donald Ross’s original design for the course.![Two young women sitting on garden planters laughing](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/featured3.jpg)
BAE Educational Garden Opens to the Community
Graduate student Jasmine Gibson led the design and construction of a new campus garden, highlighting education and sustainable farming practices.![small white bulb shaped flowers on a blueberry plant](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/blueberry-flowers.jpg)
5 Wildlife-Friendly Native Shrubs To Plant
A landscape with native shrubs makes it possible for wildlife to float like a butterfly, sting like a bee and feast like a bird.![A carpenter bee foraging on Butterfly Bush flowers in a campus Pollinator Garden.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Carpenter-Bee-360x216.png)
Using iNaturalist to Investigate Our Bee Campus
Join the NC State Campus Bee competition using iNaturalist this April to collect data on campus bees and win a "sweet" prize.![Fall leaves and a berry](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/blackgum-tree-nyssasylvatica.jpg)
5 Native Trees To Plant for Backyard Wildlife Habitat
Fall is the perfect time to add a new native tree to your yard. Your animal neighbors will thank you by visiting often. Native plants provide essential food and habitat…![Red flowers](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wc-asclepiastuberosa1500x844.jpg)
3 Reasons To Add Native Plants to Your Landscape
If you’re interested in creating a pollinator garden, songbird spot or peaceful place in your home landscape, native plants have some built-in benefits. An NC State expert has tips on getting started.![two monarch butterflies on a white flower](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pollinator-gardenshomegrown-web.jpg)
Pollinator Gardens And You
In honor of National Pollinator Month, we’re chatting with Danesha Seth Carley, co-author and research associate professor in NC State’s Department of Horticultural Science, about how to build pollinator gardens.![spotted beetle on a white flower](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/venus-flytrap-longhorn-beetle-on-flytrapsorenson.jpg)