soil
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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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To Reinhabit
Join a movement of homeowners and gardeners, coming together to transform lawns into abundant ecosystems.
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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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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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The Importance of Soil Health
Understand the critical role of soil health in gardening and how it affects plant growth and biodiversity. Join Living Systems Institute for more!