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Wet Leaves -What are They Good For?!
Don’t want to drag wet leaves to the curb? Great, keep them! Wet Leaves contain fertilizer and humus -critical to healthy shrubs, flowers, trees and food gardens. And, oh yes, they are FREE! Dump them into a circle of chicken wire in a back corner of your yard to...
Favorite Environmental Actions at Home
Purple kale alongside the porch, Red Runner Beans and cucumbers hanging on the fence, pumpkins up a trellis and peach trees at the sidewalk, . I love that at least this food will not burn fossil fuel being shipped cross country to our table. I love that we grow them...
Six Surprises in the Lawn Spiral Adventure
I have stopped mowing a spiral-shaped strip of my fenced-in lawn. I started for “No Mow May” and just kept going. In addition to less time spent mowing, these are the changes I’ve noticed through August: More bugs; in particular grasshoppers. Remember them? It wasn’t...