According to the City of Corvallis, single family residential customers use 46% more water in the summer than in the winter. These water conservation tips can keep lawns and gardens healthy while reducing costs and unnecessary losses.
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According to the City of Corvallis, single family residential customers use 46% more water in the summer than in the winter. These water conservation tips can keep lawns and gardens healthy while reducing costs and unnecessary losses.
Raingardens offer an effective landscape solution to managing stormwater on-site.
Whether you have sun or shade, clay or sandy soil, you want to choose the right plants for your site.
This is probably the most revered book on urban planning ever written, and is considered in fact one of the best books of any kind of the last hundred years.
Consider the benefits of urban meadowscaping as opposed to the environmental costs of standard lawn maintenance.
Native edibles are low-care (if planted in the right place) because they are uniquely adapted to our soil, weather and seasons. While they are providing berries for our jam, they are also feeding and housing our birds, bees, bugs and other native critters that badly need our help.
The key ingredients to a healthy wildlife environment are shelter, food and water. This design incorporates all three of these important features.
Amanda shares some crafty ideas for raised bed gardening.
Researchers test three stormwater treatment technologies.
If you are thinking about getting your garden growing, raised beds might be a good choice to consider.