Learn about earth-friendly gardening practices
Gardeners can take action on global warming!
We'll have to adapt to the coming changes, but we can also help prevent further global warming. For an excellent resource, download the two-page factsheet or the full booklet (a large file) from National Wildlife Federation.
The National Wildlife Federation also has these fact sheets concerned your landscaping and global warming.
- Booklet: The Gardener's Guide to Global Warming (a large .pdf file)
- Factsheet: Global Warming Grows Trouble for Gardeners
- Factsheet: Signs of Global Warming in Gardens
- Factsheet: Gardener's Role in Reducing Global Warming
Reducing lawns and designing your landscape
Starting with the typical lawn-dominated landscape? Here's how to get started.
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay: Homeowners' Guide to Designing Your Property (a large file)
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay: Bayscaping for the Long Term: A Homeowners' Guide
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay:
- LessLawn.com: Start shrinking your lawn
- LessLawn.com: Reduce maintenance
- LessLawn.com: Do It Yourself Landscaping Projects
- LessLawn.com: Natural Landscaping Strategies for Impatient Gardeners
- LessLawn.com: Lots of other advice - explore the website!
- Audubon at Home: Reducing the Lawn -- Meadows...and other Lawn Alternatives - includes lists of plants
- Audubon at Home: So Lawn
- No Mow lawn
- So You Want a "No Mow" Lawn, huh?
- Clover lawn - Trendy
- Cornell Cooperative Extension: White Clover in Low Maintenance Lawns
- S.A.L.T.: Smaller American Lawns Today
- Green Roofs: Mother Plants in Ithaca
Earth-friendly gardening
- Worm Composting (vermicomposting) how-to information is available from the Worm Woman, Mary Appelhof.
- Great Lakes Worm Watch
- The advantages of planting small
- US Ecoregions
- Beyond Pesticides - comprehensive resource
Help the pollinators
Other info
- Growing vegetables - the "localest" vegetables and least food miles