biodiversity
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The Early Stages of Your New Garden
When we build a regenerative garden bed, we are initiating a living process. Whether you’ve hired us to build the foundation or to help you maintain a maturing landscape, the garden is a dynamic system that changes with every season. To ensure that you are happy looking at your garden in the coming months and…
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Bee Safe Neighborhood
Living Systems Institute is sponsoring the “Bee Safe Neighborhoods” campaign to create living spaces where honeybees and other pollinators can propagate without the effects of toxic chemicals. We encourage people to stop using all poisons so a healthy ecosystem can develop wherein all pests become food for their predators. Elimination of poisons will also decrease…
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Neighborhood Nurseries
Neighborhood Nurseries and learning to save seeds can supply our habitat with plants adapted to our specific climate—for free. The plant propagation nursery is a cooperative effort maintained by LSI, designed to spread the practice of planting habitats (rather than mere gardens) in suburban landscapes. By arranging plants that work together into guilds, we create beautiful…
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Seasonal Chicken Run
Written By David Braden We like to let our chickens out on the land because the greens, bugs and worms they eat make the eggs and meat they produce for us more nutritious. However, if you confine chickens to a piece of ground they will quickly strip it of vegetation and make a mud pit. We…
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Growing Our Own: More Than A Lifestyle Choice
Written By David Braden The story of the Reinhabit Cooperative is about a community coming together to find a place for all of its residents to contribute to the well-being of the community. We do that first and foremost by producing our own food. The following ideas form the basis for the services that our gardeners…
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Suburban Forest Islands: Creatively Use and Respond to Change, and Produce No Waste
Written by David Braden and published in Mother Earth News Often the design feature of a suburban yard is a big shade tree. What do you do when that big tree in your yard begins to die? For a suburban lot there can perhaps be no greater change. All of a sudden that deep shade…
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Deep Mulch Gardening
Deep Mulch Garden Details Written By David Braden Laying out the Garden Space A family home needs a space for the family and friends to socialize. We can think of this as ‘enough lawn for the fourth of July party’. But it might also include space for the kids soccer practice and/or a place for the…
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Healthy or Sterile? Creating Biodiverse Systems
Written By David Braden Here is the question; “Do you want a healthy system or a sterile system?” When we choose to use a poison to eliminate some species from our yards there is a series of consequences. It is not only the collateral damage from the poison . . . all the other bugs…
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Native Plants for Your Garden
Discover the benefits of using native plants in your garden to support pollinator conservation and enhance biodiversity. Join Living Systems Institute!
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Creating Pollinator Friendly Habitats
Learn how to create pollinator friendly habitats that support biodiversity and enhance your garden’s ecosystem. Join us at Living Systems Institute!