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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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How to Reduce Yard Waste
Leaves. Grass clippings. Small branches. Perennial stems. Garden debris. These are not actually waste. They are nutrients, mulch, organic matter, moisture retention, future compost, and food for the soil. We need to learn how to reduce yard waste for a better yard. Every time we bag them up and haul them away, we export fertility…
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Healthy Soil: The Key to a Healthier Yard
Healthy soil is the foundation of a healthy yard. But here’s the thing: soil isn’t just dirt that holds our plants upright. It’s alive. A single handful of healthy soil contains an entire ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, microorganisms, insects, organic matter and plant roots all interacting with one another. And the healthier that underground ecosystem is,…
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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…