Tag: garden
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Spring Garden Soil Preparation: Essential Tips & Techniques
Enriching Your Garden Through Soil By Victoria Cummins The secret to a productive garden lies right beneath our feet – in the soil itself. Building soil is a fundamental concept: in a long-term healthy garden, we focus less on feeding the plants, and more on nourishing the soil that will in turn, sustain life. Healthy…
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Embracing permaculture: a path to regenerative living
Reimagining sustainable living through permaculture practices By Victoria Cummins It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change Charles Darwin In our intricate dance of life on Earth, one constant remains: change. The world around us is…
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Climate-resilient gardens: future-proof your landscape
The importance of climate-resilient landscapes By Victoria Cummins In today’s world, it’s hard to ignore the undeniable reality of climate change. The impacts of rising temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, ocean acidification, and changes in species behavior are just a few ecological changes that have become very apparent. We now find ourselves in a…
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The art of gardening in the Pacific Northwest: how to create a thriving garden
By Victoria Cummins Although we’ll never know for sure whether this is fully true, Bill Mollison, the original co-creator of permaculture, had a point. Gardening has the potential to be powerful when it comes to addressing some of the systemic and environmental challenges we face as a world today. All of the world’s problems can…