Exciting! It’s finally time to put raised, food garden beds in the backyard of the Healthy Home Habitats Demonstration Gardens. These have been a long time coming. It took several years to accurately decide the best sun location, what type and style of raised bed, and...
Do you ever tire of pulling the baby Oak trees that sprout up in your landscapes every season? They are, as I’m sure you know, courtesy of our forgetful squirrels that bury them to eat later, and then forget them. They are also nature’s way of reminding us that we...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Don’t want to drag your leaves to the curb? Great, keep them! Fall Tree and shrub 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...
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...
HOME ACTIONS FOR HEALING OUR EARTH All of the lovely fruits and vegetables we hope to harvest from our gardens this year rely on the soil they grow in for their nutrients. And healthy soil is full of bacteria! "These soil...
Dear Healthy Home Habitats, I love my affectionate cat and I like to feed wild birds in the backyard too. But for the third time this week I’ve come home to beautiful, little feathers strewn throughout the house 🙁 I know I should keep Clara the Cat inside but she...