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The use of organics encourages microbial life and small insects to thrive allowing songbirds and pollinators to flourish. Healthy living soils support healthy lawns without the need for expensive chemicals, thus creating a landscape more aligned with a natural high functioning system. Continue Reading →
Compost Tea:
Fill a 5-gallon bucket with water and let it stand overnight to allow the chlorine to evaporate out of the water.
Stir in 2 cups of compost and allow to ferment for 24 hours.
Use the tea to water your flower beds and vegetable gardens Continue Reading →
Trees increase biodiversity, mitigate a changing climate and make our lives better. Continue Reading →
Second in Greenwich Sustainability Committee’s One Land Series on Biodiversity Continue Reading →
The series will look at our use of lawn chemicals, the plants we use that escape our yards and become pests in the broader landscape, the very idea of lawn as the epitome of American landscape design. Continue Reading →