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The morning air is cooler now. You know it’s getting to be late summer, and we’re beginning to think about, don’t say it, Fall. You’ve mowed the lawn, picked vegetables, cut flowers to bring inside all season, or not. Now is a great time to think about what went...
Welcome to the Healthy Home Habitats house!
How is it that I've never posted about this amazing and challenging adventure; the renovation of an older home to be efficient in so many ways? This house is now two homes instead of one; with as much solar power as could be fit on an unusual roof; with heat/AC pumps...
A Big Dog & Ecologically-Friendly Landscape Design?
What are your options when your family has one or more very active, large dogs that "need to REALLY PLAY in the yard, preferably unobstructed"? Be happy. You’re thinking ahead, acknowledging a design constraint that can reduce future frustration with dog/landscape...
Starting From Scratch!
A new client called to say "We're starting from scratch with our retirement home and we want our landscape to be ecologically-friendly this time!" I was so delighted to receive the call. They have two, large, very playful dogs so no fussy planting beds in midst of the...
Annual Solar Shift
Yay! I bet someone else notes this day annually too? There must be a term for it. From this day forward the Healthy Home Habitats house catches up to what we used last winter and now starts saving kWH to use next winter for heat and household electricity. It costs us...
STEP ONE: “Easy-Peasy Vining Vegetables” Home Gardening Project for Beginner Gardeners!
STEP ONE: Emma and her Mom Theresa embark on this pea pod growing adventure together. They set pea seeds to soak overnight so that the seeds are ready to sprout when planted (This overnight soaking helps all pea and/or other hard-coated seeds). MATERIALS NEEDED: *Pea...
Would You Like Your Own Delightful Haven at Home?
New Plant Pointers!
Many of us are creating pollinator gardens, buying native plants and shifting to more ecologically beneficial landscape management to support the important insects that pollinate our vegetables and flowers. These bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and even some...
Full-Sun Pollinator Border
Exciting to get back to environmentally-friendly design work again. Here's a colorful perennial border design with many native and nativar plants for a healthier community as well as for the sharply-drained, full-sun circumstances. It's little trippy to explain that...
BEGIN: Growing Easy Peas w/ Last Year’s Window Box Planter!
For beginners & older gardeners, it’s Too Much to Have a Whole Garden On The Ground, right!? We’re new or our available time is short or our knees are just too old. Watch now to feel confidant about a small, beginner project. Feel great about also saving resources,...