A permaculture swale is a technique for capturing and storing water in a garden. Learn how to build a swale in the home landscape.

Urban micro prairies attract native insects and pollinators, including butterflies and bumblebees. Fortunately, native plants are readily available.

Put some imagination—and recycled products—to good use in your landscape with inventive DIY garden edging.

When bugs attack your garden, don't reach for dangerous pesticides. Instead, discover how to make natural garden pesticides that work.

Native plants and permeable paving are both Earth-friendly and attractive

Growing food doesn't have to take months. If you're looking to create a garden that can quickly produce food, you'll love these fast growing vegetables.

While diatomaceous earth (DE) is frequently recommended as pesticide, there are problems. It’s non-selective (can’t tell pollinators from pests), ineffective when wet, and the fine particles harm mammals.

Consider DE powder if you’re concerned about organic pest control and beneficial insects. Discover how to protect your potting soil with food-grade diatomaceous earth. This excellent how-to guide provides tips to treat your potted plant or entire vegetable garden. #diatomaceous #earth #plants

There are many steps gardeners can take to improve the habitat for bees. Here's how to attract them to your garden.

Looking for fun Earth Day Activities for kids? Check out these 16 Hands-On Earth Day Learning Activities and Crafts for Preschool or Kindergarten.

Rammed earth is both a building method as well as a material. The rammed earth material is a combination of earth, gravel, silt, clay and lime/cement as a stabilizer combined into a damp mix and is then rammed into forms in order to create a monolithic wall.Rammed earth construction has been around for many years, one of the most popular rammed earth walls in history is part of the great wall of china. Rammed earth construction isn't new, but it's going through a renaissance today. This construc

If you love to have a tropical garden like setup and you live in a cold climate then grow these cold hardy tropical plants to create a tropical garden in a cold climate.

Want to make your garden more eco-friendly? This eco gardening guide has lots of easy sustainable gardening tips for greener gardening.

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A permaculture swale is a technique that captures water for irrigation and slowing runoff. Learn what a swale is and why you might need one in your yard.

Help get rid of unwanted weeds in your yard by choosing a best organic weed killer made using natural and eco-friendly ingredients.

Read along to learn about the top 23 plants for pollinators to add to your garden that will attract bees, butterflies, and hummingirds!

Inexpensive Eco-Friendly Way to Make a Garden Bed Weed Proof: Never use fabric or plastic landscaping fabric ever again, with this very inexpensive and eco-friendly way to weed proof and create a new garden!

Couple Turn A Worthless Front Lawn Into An Amazing Edible Garden...

There are a few things you can do in the garden to prevent cabbage butterflies from infesting your food. But if all else fails, here's how to make sure you don't serve broccoli worms with dinner.

There are lots of ways to help save the pollinators. Plant bee-friendly flowers and avoid chemical pesticides. Them make them this honeybee watering station!

Most vegetables like 6-8 hours of sunlight a day, but there are some shade tolerant vegetables that will grow in less than this.

Discover how to attract bees to your garden so you can help these valuable insects survive and pollinate your plants.

Here’s the final makeover of our garden and this time I was transforming this little random side alley,that appeared to have no real function. With some fairly simple renter-friendly changes I’ve managed to make it useful and more than that, it feels like a peaceful sanctuary, tucked away. I’m sharing how I made this changes…

Behold! A vegan masterpiece! No, I am not exaggerating; this beautiful frittata/quiche has been a while in the making and after many attempts I have finally formulated the perfect recipe! The veget…

WOW Wonders of Water is part of It's Your Planet-Love It series. 1. Explore the wonders of water by finding out more about its importance and how it's used around the world. 2. Plan a Take Action project, such as making informative posters, promoting recycling at school, or planting low-water gardens. 3. Earn 4 leadership awards: The LOVE Water Award, the SAVE Water Award, the SHARE Water Award, and the WOW! Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting pl

If you know you're going to have a hot, dry summer, you should plant these best drought-tolerant vegetables in your garden.

If weeds are taking over your sidewalks, you can fight back the natural way when you discover how to make this homemade weed killer.