ChangeHampton is a community organization to promote restorative, bio-diverse, healthy & sustainable landscaping practices and expand the Pollinator Pathways Movement on Eastern Long Island.
In 2022, ChangeHampton presented a proposal to the East Hampton Town board for a Community Pollinator Garden on the Town Hall campus. With broad community support, grants from both Long Island Community Foundation and the JM Kaplan Fund and broad community support and donations along with a public-private partnership with the town of East Hampton, we installed the garden in 2023. Here’s the story!
What is a native plant and what are its benefits? Find out about their beauty, medicinal history and the eco-services they deliver. View, filter, search and select native plants for your garden and learn how to combine plants to build plant communities. Save your choices and email yourself a shopping list to share with your landscaper and/or nursery.
Listen to ChangeHampton’s host Francesca Rhiannon interviewing environmental activists in our community who are acting on the principles and practices of the New Land Ethic.
Making a difference about climate change, species collapse and saving our food chain starts in your own yard. The health of our watersheds below is a function of your actions in your yard above.
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Let's Talk Ticks. They are everywhere and we take them seriously. Yard spraying sales pitches may give you false hope while killing everything in your yard and leaking pesticides into our ground & drinking water ... Read More
Hope springs eternal! The first flowers to appear in spring on the East End are usually in the damp woods. One of the most prevalent is the Common Blue Violet (Viola Sororia) native to Long Island, and large ... Read More
Leaves are important habitat for beneficial insects and small animals and provide nature's best fertilizer. Leaves the leaves. In addition, leaves absorb excess rain to help counteract flooding. So why are we obsessed with blowing them away? And using equipment ... Read More
Nilay Oza, the architect, center, said it was essential to properly frame the conversation early in a relationship with a homeowner. The six-member panel agreed that educating homeowners, especially new ones and especially about how ... Read More
Today, some of us believe we need a moral revolution to radically alter our sense of ourselves in relationship to nature… And so “Toward a New Land Ethic” becomes a call to action, urging us to see ... Read More
ChangeHampton member Paul McIssac documents how beautiful, beneficial and rewarding the transformation from turf lawn to native pollinator garden can be. Watch this and join him on an inspiring tour of his spectacular Sagaponack garden. ... Read More
Honoring or community making the change to healthy landscapes and away from toxic landscaping. Come to be celebrated. September 20th at 11 am in The Pollinator Garden at East Hampton Town Hall Campus. Be there! Read More
Bring your kids to this fun and free event and unleash joy and creativity in ChangeHampton's award-winning Native Community Pollinator garden. See the developent of our Native Pollinator Grassland Meadow as a non-toxic, bio-diverse and ... Read More
East Hampton likes to think of itself as an enlightened community overseeing a natural treasure: History, tradition, wealth and intelligence, but especially natural beauty. And, our Town Board takes pride in its environmental mission. It ... Read More
