Ah, now here’s an idea to warm (or perhaps wet) an ecologically-minded gardener’s heart: Rain Gardens.
Rain gardens, I guess, aren’t exactly new concepts. But they are making ever more sense.
What are they? Areas where you direct the runoff from your non-permeable surfaces (like your roof and asphalt driveway), essentially. The idea is to stop potentially [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
- (you never promised me) a rain garden
Posted in gardening, plants and animals, tagged gardening, rain gardens on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- more of us are plowing up our lawns
Posted in food, gardening, tagged farming, food, gardening, micro-farming, super-micro farming on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“This year, 39 percent of people with backyards told the Garden Writers Association they planned to grow vegetables,” the Christian Science Monitor tells us.
Recent spikes in gas and food prices this spring are turning many in the USA to home-food production, it seems.
We welcome that, of course. We’ve been excited about the whole ‘eat [...]
- tax breaks for gardeners! Yeah!
Posted in economics, food, gardening, policy, tagged fiscal policy, food security, gardening, super-micro farming, tax on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
if we want to encourage people to produce their own food, here’s a great idea: tax breaks for gardeners!
It’s the idea of Maine gardener and sustainability advocate Roger Doiron. He says:
There are different breaks that local, state and federal governments could offer home gardeners. Sales taxes on seeds, seedlings, fruit bushes and trees could be [...]
- eat your lawn, plant your street
Posted in food, gardening, political action, tagged gardening, micro-farming, super-micro farming, urban planning on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s more on the trend that we’re calling ’super-micro farming.’
Firstly, Fritz Haeg has now published his “Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn.” You can find an except from it here.
But why stop at your lawn? Ruben Anderson, over at The Tyee, suggests that we plant the parking spaces in front of [...]
- gardening and climate change
Posted in gardening, tagged climate change, gardening, invasive species on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s nothing like a passion for gardening to sharpen your awareness of environmental change.
Gardeners need to know when the last frosts end; the number of ‘cooling days’ available to fix their apples; when the soil will be warm enough to plant the summer vegetables – and plenty more – if they’re to garden in any [...]
