How sustainable is your landscape?
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Growing Food in Your Own Backyard
Do the city dwellers have little patio or balcony gardens. Are the suburbanites transforming their carefully manicured exotic turf grass lawns into viable, environmentally friendly landscapes that support fruit trees and edible plants?
We want to hear from you out there in Twitterland and beyond! What are you doing in your own personal landscapes and yards to support sustainability and Green Living? Shout out for or against using your landscapes to grow food instead of just ornamental plants and grass.
What's So Good About Sustainable Gardening?
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1. You have free fresh, healthy fruits, vegetables and herbs for your family.
2. There are no transportation costs and air pollution is reduced because transportation is not needed.
3. By growing food plants and native trees and shrubs, you are helping the environment by providing habitat for pollinators and other animals.
4. It is a learning opportunity for children. The old saying about teaching a man how to fish comes into play here, too.
What other reasons can you think of? Why not tweet them to the world.
"It is not only possible, but highly desirable from a human perspective to create living spaces that are themselves functioning, sustainable ecosystems with high species diversity."
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Chickens and Other Animals
Permaculture and sustainable gardening go hand in hand. Keeping animals like chickens that provide eggs and fertilizer adds another aspect to the natural growing cycle. The eggs provide an additional valuable food source and the natural free fertilizer will help a garden produce many healthy and delicious vegetables.
Chickens in Sustainable Gardening
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"We need biodiversity because it literally sustains us."
Douglas W. Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home
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The Food For Everyone Foundation's mission is to teach and assist families everywhere to grow successful and sustainable vegetable gardens, and really enjoy the experience.
In case you don't Twitter, leave your comment here.
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Evelyn_Saenz
Aug 19, 2011 @ 8:48 pm | delete
- Squid Angel Blessed.
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Evelyn_Saenz
Aug 19, 2011 @ 8:47 pm | delete
- I will be adding blueberry bushes this summer and am considering getting some chickens next spring in my quest to create a sustainable landscape here in Vermont at my B&B.
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EmmaCooper Oct 20, 2010 @ 2:30 am | delete
- My back yard is turned over entirely to a vegetable patch, greenhouse and three chickens :) Love that mulberry picture, I'm hoping to add those to my garden soon!
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