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Growing Greener

Nov 24, 2021

Being in the moment is a challenge in our busy, too-connected age, yet it is essential for appreciating and understanding the garden.   Poet Susan Brearley shares her practice for mindfulness: the on-the-spot composition of garden haiku.  Brearley, who has been teaching haiku workshops at the great Innisfree garden in...


Nov 17, 2021

Do you hate the noise and stink of gasoline-powered blowers and mowers rampaging through your neighborhood?  Matthew Benzie of Indigenous Ingenuities in Doylestown, Pennsylvania is doing something about that.  He’s switched his maintenance crew to zero-emission, quiet, battery-powered equipment transported on...


Nov 10, 2021

Brooklyn’s famous cemetery builds on its heritage, becoming a community green space, an arboretum, and a center for environmental research


Nov 3, 2021

Matthew Shepherd of the Xerces Society details ways to get the garden ready for winter without harming over-wintering insects and other foundational wildlife