Grow Your Own Meadow Garden at Home When we think of meadows we think of grassy, open spaces, often with wildflowers. They play an important role in the environment. Creating meadows gardens in home landscapes is becoming quite a trend, … Read More
Looks Like the West is Still in a Megadrought To deal with drought, we must maximize the rain we get After a dry start to northern California’s rainy season we have finally gotten some rain. Ever since the drought that … Read More
Bumble Bees Are Some of Our Most Important Pollinators At the end of fall when the weather has cooled down, you may be out visiting the last flowers in your garden. And you may have seen some of the last … Read More
How We Can Help Our Lesser-Known Pollinators By now, most of us are concerned about the decline of bees and other pollinators. But there’s a myriad of bees that are not honeybees and many are great pollinators. They are native … Read More
Two Powerful Ways Soil Soaks Up Carbon Dioxide My previous article discussed the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere and how it helps maintain a range of temperatures that enable life on earth. The amount of CO2 in … Read More
You Can Help the Native Bees-They’re Our Best Pollinators Pollinators are in rapid decline. They have their mission from Mother Earth to pollinate between 75 and 90% of all the plants on earth. This is to make seeds for more … Read More
Don’t Miss This Key Ingredient for a Successful Butterfly Garden Feed both stages of butterflies in your butterfly garden to really help boost their populations You may have a butterfly garden or want to start one. Everyone loves to see … Read More
What is Ecological Landscaping? What Does it Do? And How Do We Start? Ecological landscaping is all about preserving and restoring the ecosystems we live in. Right where we live—in our own backyards. Without healthy ecosystems we don’t get the … Read More
Save Our Birds by Planting the Right Plants and Give the Best Gift to Our Children Have you been hearing the birds lately? If your older than a millennial, you may have noticed that the birdsong’s just not what it … Read More