Dear Healthy Home Habitats, Our water bills are rising and droughts are back again this year. I think I’m finally through with the “best lawn in the neighborhood" competition. But I’m not ready for the cost, expense and effort of creating a meadow. I need my yard to...
Regenerative Landscape & Garden Stewardship Tips
5 Steps to Drought-Proof Your Landscape
No, you are not imagining it. Not only are the droughts back again this spring in the Northeast US. But they are projected to continue through the growing season. Drought and erratic, intense rainstorms are predicted. Communities are implementing outdoor, landscape...
Anguished Animal Lover
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...
Harvesting Free Water from the Sky
HEALING THE EARTH FROM HOME "Wait Mommy, I’ll turn on the rain for you!" my young daughter said as she ran to one of the barrels along the dripline of our roof years ago. Our NH mud, rain and gardening seasons are coming quickly into view on these warm, March days....