Planting a Tree: Is There a More Hopeful Act?
While it takes a decade or more for trees to mature, even saplings improve soil, air, and storm runoff. The sooner you plant a tree, the sooner you’ll see its benefits.
Environment
Posts on how you can take simple steps to improve the environment and positively affect climate change.
A Garden Plan To Survive Heat Waves
Heat waves and drought are par for the course every summer. With careful garden design, your plants can make it through drought and heat relatively unscathed.
How Heat Waves Affect Plants in Your Garden
Heat can do incredible damage to shrubs and flowers, but is especially damaging to vegetables and fruit.
How Synthetic Fertilizers Harm Soil, Air, and Water
The impact of synthetic fertilizers are well established facts, yet nitrogen and phosphorous-heavy fertilizer use still persists.
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Pesticides Implicated In Deaths of Bees and Birds
Recent studies have shown that the world’s most widely used class of pesticides are responsible for the massive die-off of honeybees and deaths of birds.
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How Home Gardeners Can Save The Monarch Butterfly
Monarch butterflies lay eggs on only one plant: Milkweed. Record heat, drought, herbicides & logging have drastically reduced their numbers.
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Climate Change: Your Flowers Are Blooming Earlier
A recent study showed that due to climate change, plants are producing flowers earlier than at any point in history. What that means for your garden.
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Why Organic Gardening Has an Image Problem
Big Food and Big Ag have spent billions on disinformation to make the organic label radical, too expensive, and not based on reliable science. Time to flip it.
Hugelkultur: The Ultimate Raised Garden Bed?
Hugelkultur mimics the way a forest uses organic matter, but in reverse. This method uses tree wood to feed your garden for years.
How To Be the Best Gardener
Steps to become a better gardener and create a safer environment for your food, family, pets, wildlife, and the biological community in your soil.