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Category Archives: Climate Change
Building Your Soil
Learn about adaptive strategies that gardeners can take to improve their soil.
Maintaining the health of our soil is the primary strategy for climate resilience. As the second largest ecosystem after the world’s oceans, soil not only provides physical support of our plants, but also is crucial in the cycling of water and nutrients. In addition, it provides habitat for a multitude of living things, including beneficial microbes that develop special relationships with plants. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged compacted soil, compost, cover crops, ground covers, leaf litter, plant roots, soil, soil structure
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Garden Practices and Products to Minimize Your Carbon Footprint
Second in our series on Climate-Conscious Gardening, this article has suggestions for science-based techniques individuals can implement to directly reduce the sources of greenhouse gas emissions and slow the pace of further climate change. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged chemicals, compost, fertilizer, herbicides, peat mulch, pesticides, recycle
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Climate Change and Its Effect on Gardening
Climate-Conscious Gardening To quote David W. Wolfe, Professor of Plant & Soil Ecology at Cornell University, “We are in the unfortunate situation of being the first generation of gardeners, ever, who cannot rely on historical weather records to tell us … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, MG in the Garden
Tagged Climate Change, drought, false spring, flooding, global warming, greenhouse gases, Phenology, whiplash weather, winter damage
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