Latest Stories in Lawn & Garden - Page 15
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Garden Mulch Makes the Simplest Composting Toilet of All
From peeing in public to plush and fragrant composting toilets, there was a time when I was writing an awful lot about pee and poop. It's been a while since I visited this important topic, but as I was going through my morning
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The Pro-Environment Case for Errecting Deer Fences
Intuitively, I've never been to fond of fences. Symbolically, they were always a reminder of humans' tendency to dominate nature, and on a practical level they seemed like they would restrict the movement of wildlife and
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Why and How Every Gardener Should Go Peat Free
The Chelsea Flower Show may have declared its intentions to go peat free, and peat alternatives for the garden may be increasingly available, but many gardeners continue to use peat despite the fact that peat mining is stripping vital habitats at a far
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Colony Collapse iPhone Game Puts Male Bees in the Hot Seat
Remember Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie? It wasn't just the Bee Movie's collaboration with McDonalds that had a lot of nature lovers confused—it was also the fact that it featured heroic male "pilots" flying off to
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DIY Worm Tower Creates Self-Spreading Compost (Video)
From building your own worm bin to how to build a compost tumbler, we've covered plenty of simple, DIY solutions for home composting here on TreeHugger. But what about a worm bin that literally spreads its own
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Could Mushrooms Remediate Japan's Nuclear Contamination?
Paul Stamets is famous for his assertions that mushrooms can help heal the world. From myco-pesticides to cleaning up oil spills, he argues that mushrooms are nature's ultimate recyclers and colonizers, and as such can help to meet many of the
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How to Combat Soil Erosion in the Garden (Video)
Yesterday I posted a video on how tax payers are subsidizing soil erosion in the Mid-West, and it's a story that John has covered in great detail in his piece about why eating local or vegetarian cannot stop soil
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Europe's Largest and Newest Green Living Wall is in London
It's been called Europe's largest and newest green wall. Installed in a newly renovated hotel in January makes it new and as for large, it stretches from the second to eleventh floor on the outside of the building.
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How to Make Seed Bombs (and Not Get in Trouble Doing It)
I've always like the idea of seed bombs. Little nuggets of clay, compost and appropriately-selected seeds that can be used to help green wasteland and otherwise neglected areas.
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Huge Wind-Powered Aquaponic Dome Greenhouse Planned for Vermont Park
Image credit: The Root Center Will Allen's incredible Growing Power project has already gotten many people hooked on the idea of urban aquaponics. And there are plenty of DIY aquaponics enthusiasts tinkering with fish farming and produce growing in
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How to Make a Compost Tea Brewer for Under $30 (Video)
I've written before about how to make compost tea and why you should, but when I wrote a round up of how to brew compost tea videos, I somehow missed this gem from PNW gardening on how to make a compost tea brewer for under
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How Much Money Can You Save By Gardening?
Lloyd mentioned gardening among his 11 lifestyle choices to hedge against inflation, and Jeff Nield has noted how one gardener saved $2000 in food costs. For the last few years famed frugality expert and financial guru J.D.Roth of GetRichSlowly.org
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How to Build a Compost Tumbler (Video)
Some time ago, I came across an awesome video about how to build your own compost tumbler. With its makers claiming you can create compost in just 14-21 days for pennies, and little work, it always looked like a great
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Bees May Be "Entombing" Their Own Hives to Escape Pesticides
During our live chat with bee expert and Tyler Prize laureate Professor May Berenbaum, she cautioned against over simplistic arguments regarding the
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Promoting Humanure Composting in Haiti and Why It Matters (Video)
The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets
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Ellen Page Speaks Out on the Vanishing of the Bees (Video)
We're excited here at TreeHugger about our live chat today with leading bee expert and entomologist Professor May Berenbaum today at 2.30 est. But (luckily!) we're not the only ones stepping up to talk about the plight
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How to Heal Soil on the Farm and in the Garden (and How to Deal with Old Farmers)
Last week I posted on Rebecca Hosking and Tim Green's efforts to convert a traditional family farm using permaculture techniques. (These are the same folks who brought us the incredible A Farm for the Future documentary about agriculture and peak oil.)
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A Dumpster Diving, Bike Riding Garden Company (Video)
With some dumpster divers getting arrested for their efforts, it gets easier to understand why some dumpster divers like The Secret Freegan choose to keep it on the down low. Others, however, are more than happy to
