Marin conservation photographers create their dream garden

Nita Winter and Rob Badger may have plenty to be grateful for this Thanksgiving, but there’s one thing in particular that makes their hearts flutter: the garden they planted for wild birds and monarch butterflies.

Winter grew up on Long Island, New York, and had a small vegetable garden. Badger’s family, who lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, had vegetable gardens as well.

“He taught me how to garden,” says Badger of his uncle. “I had brown hair, his was gray. We called each other...