Spore Lore Information

Welcome to Spore Lore, a publishing and habitat consulting company (a sole-proprietorship) founded in 2001 by Anthony McGuigan in Sebastopol, California. Spore Lore helps empower people to make a positive difference in the world by providing them with the knowledge, resources, and inspiration to create much-needed animal habitat right in their own yard. Whether it is on an apartment balcony, an urban patio, a suburban garden, or country acreage, Spore Lore helps people think creatively about inexpensive and easy ways to provide and enhance ecosystems upon which animals of all shapes and sizes depend. Through its publications, website, presentations, and landscape design and installation services, Spore Lore inspires well-informed, yet creative and fun approaches to increasing and diversifying gardens and animal habitats in yards, neighborhoods and communities. Anthony McGuigan brings his many diverse skills and passions to Spore Lore's products and services. His experience as a registered nurse and background in early childhood development, accounting, building, plumbing, sustainable landscaping and gardening-along with being a papa, avid outdoorsman, and enthusiastic student of life-infuses his work as a writer, photographer, editor, and publisher with a uniquely creative perspective, courageous out-of-the box thinking, and immense humor. Related to gardening and ecological landscape design, Anthony McGuigan holds a Sustainable Landscape Professional Certificate from Sonoma State University and a Permaculture Design Certificate from Regenerative Design Institute. Although grounded in cutting-edge research and literature of the field, "Tony" is pragmatic, not a purist, is unconventional in his landscaping approach yet has an eye for the aesthetic, is a master of reuse and recycling, and is a keen observer of nature and nurturer of relationships-animal, plant and human. One of my goals is to help people get out of their 'stuckness' about creating habitat and to empower people to spend time outdoors, in the ...