Here is a brief introduction to why I wrote my book, Gardening My Way! A Beginners Guide to What I Know - And What You Need to Know. Gardening My Way!: A Beginners Guide to What I Know - And What You Need to Know: Zimmerman, Brian: 9798324566845: Amazon.com: Books We need to create a new way of looking at our yards. It should be used for a better and higher purpose. The idea that we should have cookie cutter yards with large tracts of grass is outdated and wasteful. Americans use too much water, fertilizer and pesticides to maintain the green throughout the season. I advocate for using our properties to bring back pollinators and grow our own food. Look at the amount of food recalls lately. Cucumber, lettuce and peppers have all been on the list in multiple states to be recalled. Read the blog and order the book.
We need to create a local food system and part of that is people planting home gardens and reducing their carbon footprint. During World War 2 they had victory gardens to help in the war effort. We are in dire need of people to fight our current war, climate change. Climate change is a war we must win. It is important for each of us to create more environmentally friendly and sustainable yards with vegetables and native plants to battle the environmental disaster we are going through.
We need to get rid of grass lawns. They do nothing for us but waste time, money, resources, pollute our rivers, streams, ground water and air. We must change our ideas on landscaping. It is up to each one of us to make the move to sustainable landscapes and tell others about it. We may not be able to solve all the problems, but by modifying our thinking we can at least help. Today’s landscapes do nothing for us. They are mainly simple and imaginative consisting of a foundation of shrubs with annual flowers beneath.
The use of native landscape plants and no-till gardens is our future. Think about this. If you plant a successful native pollinator garden with a no -till vegetable garden its benefits are present but limited to a small area. Your neighbor sees it, likes it, and then decides to do the same. The benefits are doubled. Then you will speak with other neighbors and they will see the beauty and also understand the purpose of it. They begin to add native plants and no-till vegetable gardens. The result is we have created a small ecosystem. Then the vegetables that your neighborhood produce can be shared between neighbors
or donated to those in need. That ecosystem is the foundation for bringing back what we have lost through our own ignorance.
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