Red Ivy Rescue: A Special Needs Animal Rescue and Sanctuary

01/24/2026

01/24/2026

Please remember straw NEVER blankets or fabric. Also hay and straw are not the same.

11/09/2025

When chemicals touch soil, grass, or insects, they don’t disappear.
They climb the food chain:
• From soil → worms & insects
• From insects → birds, toads, and small mammals
• From small mammals → snakes, owls, hawks, foxes, pets

One spray can ripple through an entire backyard ecosystem.

🐾 Pets suffer. Wildlife suffers. Soil & waterways suffer.

✨ Choose nature-safe alternatives:
• Hand-pull weeds or mulch deeply
• Encourage predators like owls, toads, and ladybugs
• Use boiling water or vinegar for cracks and paths
• Compost and build healthy soil — nature balances itself

Healthy yards don’t need poison.
They need life. 🌱🦋🦊

11/08/2025

You probably don’t think twice before tossing out a little rat poison it’s quick, easy, and out of sight. But that “easy fix” doesn’t stop with the rat.

One poisoned mouse becomes the last meal for an owl family that could’ve kept your fields clean naturally. Just one. And it ends everything.

Owls silently protect our farms and gardens, eating thousands of rodents every year for free. But they can’t survive our shortcuts.

If you care about wildlife, skip the poison. Nature already has its own pest control. 🦉💔

09/26/2025

OP Gardening Success Tips

09/04/2025

Please help the pet overpopulation crisis is beyond critical

09/04/2025

🐦 9 Plants Not To Cut in Fall: Birds Need Them for Winter

1) Coneflowers (Echinacea)
• Leave seed heads standing through winter.
• Cut back only in early spring.

2) Black-Eyed Susans (Rudbeckia)
• Keep dark seed heads until late winter.
• Goldfinches & chickadees feed on them.

3) Sunflowers (Helianthus)
• Large seed heads = natural bird feeders.
• If stalks flop, lay them down or prop up.

4) Joe-Pye W**d (Eutrochium)
• Tall seed heads feed small birds.
• Foliage adds snow-cover shelter.

5) Goldenrod (Solidago)
• Keep stems and seeds all winter.
• Sparrows & juncos rely on them.

6) Ornamental Grasses (Miscanthus, Panicum, etc.)
• Don’t cut back until spring.
• Provide seeds, shelter, & winter interest.

7) Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’
• Leave dried flower heads intact.
• Birds love seeds; adds frosty texture.

8) Asters
• Leave uncut until spring.
• Birds feed on their small seeds.

9) Native Shrubs with Berries (Viburnum, Dogwood, Elderberry)
• Keep berries for winter food.
• Only prune weak or diseased branches.

04/05/2025

We Carry Babies, Not Rabies

Artist : vsteiner