We tend to think that our yard and garden are already green and eco friendly, but there is always room for improvement and leaving a smaller foot print in our environment.
One eco friendly way to go green in your yard and garden is to stop using chemical weed killers. Remove weeds from your lawn and garden the old fashioned way, pull the weeds up by the roots. While this is labor intensive, the weeds won’t return and less chemicals will enter our water sources. Chemical products, like Weed and Feed for lawns are carried into our water supplies by rain run-off, not too mention that any chemical weed killer you put on your lawn can kill any landscape shrubs, since shrub roots usually extend under your lawn.
Once you have removed the weeds from your garden, apply organic mulch to prevent weed growth and retain garden soil moisture.
Chemical fertilizers also seep into the ground and ultimately into our water supply. Use organic compost as an eco friendly alternative. Compost will fertilize your garden and amend garden soil.
Did you know that a gasoline powered lawn mower can produce as much pollution in one hour as driving a car for 350 miles? For eco friendly lawn mowing, use a non-gasoline powered reel lawn mower.
Go green by recycling the rain water that runs off your home’s roof. An standard 1,200 square foot roof yields about 750 gallons of water per 1 inch of rain. Be eco friendly and catch that rain water for watering your yard and garden, or even for use indoors.
Written by SueDoeNim
Organic Farms, Back Yard Vegetable Gardens and animal farming destroyed by S 510 “The Food Safety Modernization Act” “We have just received word that tomorrow, Wednesday, November 17, 2010, the Senate will vote on S. 510 Food Safety Bill! “If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.” ~ Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistle blower. “Section 3 which is the definitions portion of the bill-read in it’s entirety. section 103, 206 and 207- read in it’s entirety. Legally binds state agriculture depts to enforcing federal guidelines effectively taking away the states power to do anything other than being food police for the federal dept. Effectively criminalizes organic farming but doesn’t actually use the word organic. Effects anyone growing food even if they are not selling it but consuming it. Effects anyone producing meat of any kind including wild game. Legislation is so broad based that every aspect of growing or producing food can be made illegal. There are no …