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Your Yard Already Knows How To Compost, Dummy
Every spring, the same strange, anti-compost ritual takes over suburbia. The trees leaf out. The birds come back. The flowers start blooming. And suddenly every curb in the neighborhood is lined with giant bins and paper bags full of leaves, grass clippings, sticks, and organic material waiting to be hauled away. And every year I…
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The EFSS Framework for A Better Yard
Listen to the EFSS Framework Podcast Episode Click play above to listen to go deeper on this post. Listen and subscribe to A Better Yard: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Pandora May is not just another month in the yard. It’s the month. It is the month to dive deep in the EFSS Framework! This is when habits are set. When systems…
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Stop Wasting Water on Your Lawn
Why You Need to Stop Wasting Water in Your Yard There’s a quiet assumption baked into modern homeownership that most people never question: you buy a house, you get a lawn, and you water it. Over and over again. Week after week. Whether it actually needs it or not. Let’s stop wasting water on our…
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Sustainable Lawn Care: Three Ways to Build a Healthier Lawn
Sustainable lawn care doesn’t mean you have to get rid of your lawn. I crank on lawns plenty. They’re a massive use of water, fertilizer, chemicals, time and energy for something that doesn’t give much back to our local ecosystems. But lawns are also useful. We play on them. The dog runs around on them. They…
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Second Nature with Doug Tallamy
One of the biggest shifts Doug Tallamy says we can make in how we think about our yards is actually pretty simple: Your yard is part of nature. We can learn and grow from that. This perspective is central to Doug Tallamy’s philosophy as well. It isn’t something separate from the ecosystem around us. The…