Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
I’ve posted before on this blog about the attraction of wildlife tracking in the garden. Garden wildlife, I noted then, reminds me of teenagers – the critters eat distressingly huge [...]
Guest Rant by David The Good As I emptied buckets of human waste into a bin filled with red wigglers, the realization hit me: I had reached peak compost. This [...]
Despite the cold rain, Saturday April 22nd was a great time to be walking the streets of Washington D.C. The occasion for my outing was the March for Science, and [...]
I recently attended a "Green Yards and Gardens" talk in my town. The intern giving the talk was more knowledgeable than I expected, but the topics covered were no surprise: [...]
Dead nettles in bloom along VanArsdall Road in Salvisa, KY on March 26th. Molly Bush photo. I’ve been a careless victim of too many late nights in my [...]
The Niagara River is part of the watershed that is threatened by a funding cutoff. After appointing what are essentially bizzaro-world choices to lead the EPA, and other [...]
New England-area garden designer Matthew Cunningham will be speaking in Silver Spring, Maryland for the local chapter of APLD on Saturday February 11 from 10 to noon. His topic: “Stone, [...]
Ed Snodgrass stands on stage 1 – the green roof. Ed Snodgrass is the internationally known green-roof author, consultant and grower whose own Maryland nursery experienced downpours gushing downhill, [...]
The best kind of sustainability is to take a waste product and turn it into a valuable resource; to turn garbage, as it were, into gold. There’s a farm family [...]
My Boise front garden this summer, two years after smothering the lawn with leaves. Got leaves? Use them to boost your garden’s soil and plant health, facilitate the [...]
“Where are you going?” “I’m driving to Hamburg to look at a parking lot.” “Is it OK if I don’t go with you?” This marital exchange took place on a [...]
Readers may remember news that the first town in the U.S. had banned lawn pesticides on public and private property, just two years ago, followed by news of the campaign [...]
