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My Lawn, Your Lawn
Why is chemical treatment on my lawn such a big deal? It’s my grass on my property. It’s not like I’m spraying all my neighbor’s lawns or the playground or the dog park. It was presented to me like this- … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Family, Lawns, Natural Health, Pets
Tagged bees, chemical fertilizers, cigarettes, dandelions, pesticides, pets, smoking, soil, water
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Rain Garden: Just Say “No” to Watering
I like to conserve resources, like… effort. Take the rain garden I recently finished building. Sure, I shoveled and wheelbarrowed a dump truck’s worth of soil, and hand-built a thirty foot long retaining wall. But, once I get the flowers … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Local, Native plants, Recycling, Water
Tagged berm, bumble bee, butterfly, Danaus plexippus, flowers, gardening, Jerusalem artichoke, Monarch, rain, rain garden, retaining wall, stone wall, Sunchoke, swale, water
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