Next to Nature Gardening

Next to Nature Gardening is an essential manual for designing sustainable, eco-friendly landscapes. This accessible handbook promotes a hands-on, DIY approach, giving homeowners the knowledge and tools to make use of nature's resources for supporting natural habitats and encouraging natural ecosystem functions.Written by horticultural and environmental experts Tony Endress and Brian Lenherr, this 168-page guide provides practical advice, ideas, and lists to help landowners become...
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Next to Nature Gardening is an essential manual for designing sustainable, eco-friendly landscapes. This accessible handbook promotes a hands-on, DIY approach, giving homeowners the knowledge and tools to make use of nature's resources for supporting natural habitats and encouraging natural ecosystem functions.Written by horticultural and environmental experts Tony Endress and Brian Lenherr, this 168-page guide provides practical advice, ideas, and lists to help landowners become responsible stewards of their properties.Through strategies like enriching soil, harvesting water, enhancing habitats, growing food, and tapping into nature's many advantages, this handbook presents a technique that improves a landscape's climate resilience.The end goal Next to Nature Gardening is to create a personal landscape that fights against the challenges of severe droughts, intense storms, increasing wildfire threats, soil erosion, diminishing biodiversity, habitat loss, and more. Ultimately, this guide promotes the idea of designing gardens for a lifetime, emphasizing the importance of creating landscapes that thrive through a cooperative relationship with nature.