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Home & Garden: Suburban Ecology

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My yard is my refuge
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Here’s how to create an environmentally friendly landscape full of color and life
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Homegrown fruit brings beauty and other sweet benefits to your yard
Regenerative Gardening
Simple ways to promote ecological function in your garden
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A cutting garden allows you to share flowers all year long
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Leave the leaves this fall
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Helping feathered friends is an important and entertaining winter pastime
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The how-to’s of bringing mushrooms to life in your home and yard—and on your plate—this fall.
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Bringing beauty to your landscape as well as cold-weather comfort.
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As our understanding of trees increases, so does our resolve to plant and protect them.
Growing native plants
If everyone planted native plants in a portion of their yard, we could make up for the loss in the
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Let the seeds of spring bring joy to yard and plate
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Let’s quit treating rainwater like garbage
A pollinator-supporting garden
One of the first things I did was remove all the lawn in my small front yard and plant a
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Why we need insects more than they need us
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Open pollinated seeds offer empowerment as well as beauty and flavor
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