A Low-Cost Swimming Pool that Saves Energy and Serves Biodiversity
Jennifer Campbell, a sustainable landscape designer in New Hampshire, built herself a natural swimming pool that saves energy, nurtures native plants, serves wildlife, and cost her only $10,000 to install.
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Helping Native Plants Outrun Climate Change
Assisted migration, helping native plants move to escape the effects of a rapidly changing climate, is a controversial topic among ecologists. Thomas Nuhfer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst shares a new understanding of how to make these moves without destabilizing existing ecosystems.
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A Conversation with Growing Greener’s New Partner
Award-winning landscape designer Edwina von Gal describes her Perfect Earth Project’s dual approach to changing the culture of land care in the United States: building a constituency among land owners and gardeners for ecologically-based, toxin-free design and maintenance while educating landscapers in how to serve this new market.
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DOGE is Destroying an Essential, Inexpensive Foundation of American Agricultural Greatness
The National Plant Germplasm System has protected U.S. farmers against crop diseases and now climate change for over a century; DOGE has defunded its $40 million annual budget, imperiling our $1.5 trillion food system
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The Lawn Mower as Ecological Design Tool
Award-winning landscape architect Michael Geffel describes how he used precisely targeted and timed mowing to convert a brownfield into a flowering grassland and a vibrant public recreation area.
Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.
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