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1. Get Started with a Home Compost Bin C omposting is easier than ever with the black plastic compost bin available now. No worms, no unsightly big contraption and mostly odorless, depending on your olfactories. Composting is a good landfill sensitive idea that can be in every backyard. ...
2. Backyard Makeover: Before and After I have a confession to make. I am a landscape designer's worst nightmare. I almost hesitate to describe how it all began. One morning in 2006, I took a long look at our pathetic backyard. Our 14-year-old dog had died earlier that year, leaving behi...
3. Rubber Mulch This lens is about all you parents out there that are worried about the safety of your children. Covered in this lens is Playground safety, and Mulch which is very environment friendly. The most important factor to consider when installing a playgrou...
4. My Big Ass Yard Yes I have a big ass yard. I know this is true because when I get done mowing, weed whacking, planting, raking, watering, etc. I always say, "man, I have a big ass yard." Actually my yard is three acres in size. The same as three football f...
5. Ruth Stout - Organic Mulch Gardener I first heard of Ruth Stout from my mother when I told her I was going to start my first vegetable garden.  Mom suggested I get some books by Ruth Stout and learn about Organic Gardening. Ruth lived for many years in Redding, CT right near the Ne...
6. Make a 'no-dig' vegetable garden in less than two hours Spring is springing down here in Australia. Time to get the vegie patch going again. This year is my first spring in a new garden. A vegetable garden is a necessity, but I was certainly not looking forward to breaking my back over a new vegie patch....
7. Water Conservation - tips for conserving water in the West I was inspired to create this lens after reading an article about how drought is affecting people living in the western United States. I live in the West, so it's something I'm faced with. Hopefully, most people try to conserve water to some degree. W...
8. Tree Removal Service Schneider Tree Care has been providing expert tree removal, tree pruning, and tree service solutions to Upstate SC and beyond since 1996. Schneider Tree Care has continually grown by providing quality, professional tree service at fair rates. With ov...
9. Sustainability City - Soul Food Cafe "Sustainability City" is part of a Soul Food Cafe initiative called "Wild Gardeners". The intention of this lens is to provide information on urban sustainability, how it is possible, and how it is working every day, often without any fanfare or fuss...
10. Hillside Landscaping: How to put mulch on slopes The purpose of this lens is to inform people on how put mulch on hillsides and the proper use of the product Mulch Magnet. The lens is a work in progess so stop back and check out the updates. Additional information can be found at www.mulchmagnet.co...
11. Backyard Composting Saving the environment, one yard at a time. It sounds a little weak as an amibition, but it's something I can actually do. If I do it well enough, my friends and neighbors will notice. Then I can teach them, and they'll tell two friends, and so on, a...
12. Slow Gardening Slow Gardening is the practice of following local and seasonal growing cycles in the way we cultivate, think about and prepare our food. It's an approach that can change the way we look at what ends up on our plates, and how it gets there. It provide...
13. Making Compost Composting happens when organic material breaks down to produce a rich natural fertilizer for your soil. Making compost can be as easy as adding food scraps to a worm bin every week. I hope the materials here can help you get started.
14. "Green" methods to deal with Garden Weeds Weeds in the garden (or flower beds) can become a pain in the back ... and neck, shoulders, arms... When I first started "going green" about 12 years ago, the learning curve and difficulty of organic gardening seemed insurmountable. How to "weed" ou...
15. Gardening In Sandy Clay Top Soil If you live in a desert region as I do, you are well aware of all the hard or sandy type clay soil. This type of top soil is one of the hardest you will find beside rock. After two years of experimenting with different products and techniques, I was...
16. As the Garden Grows Home and Garden - Home decor, renovation, DIY projects and related products discussed as well as gardening tips and advice from a Canadian Zone 5b, USD zone 6b gardener. Photos accompany most posts, plus there is a weekly interactive post.  This...
17. EcoDepot: Earth Friendly Products EcoDepot is a renewable resource-based company that offers innovative products to the ecological restoration industry. Knowledge gained from decades worth of experience in nursery management, field ecology, stream restoration and erosion & sediment...
18. the Whitehouse ORGANIC Garden "This is really the new Victory Garden," says former White House chef Walter Scheib approvingly of the Obamas' plot. "It's a good representation of a frugal and responsible lifestyle." Bummer about the sludge, but lest we forget, sewedge sludge is s...