This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
This journal will help with planting and lawn care maintenance! Features: ✓ Size: 6 x 9 inches, 114 pages. ✓ It will be your essential tool in recording your plants which are taken the care needed, thoughts, and ideas. ✓ Update and change your priorities and focus when needed. ✓ Note your plants to improve each and every day. ✓ This book is an ideal gift for your family, your friends, your loved ones... and yourself
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities. Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her delight, she watched as fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground. Soon the White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the nutrition and well-being of our children. In American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden, from the first planting to the satisfaction of the seasonal harvest. She reveals her early worries and struggles—would the new plants even grow?—and her joy as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. She shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her on her journey across the nation. And she offers what she learned about planting your own backyard, school, or community garden. American Grown features: • a behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden’s growth • unique recipes created by White House chefs • striking original photographs that bring the White House garden to life • a fascinating history of community gardens in the United States From a modern-day vegetable truck that brings fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, to Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom, to a New York City school that created a scented garden for the visually impaired, to a garden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that devotes its entire harvest to those less fortunate, American Grown isn’t just the story of a single garden. It’s a celebration of the bounty of our nation and a reminder of what we can all grow together.
