Tag Archive: Edible Landscaping
Great Lakes Permaculture > Edible Landscaping
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August 26, 2015
Community, Edible Landscaping, Farms, Gardening, Gardens, Harmful Chemicals, Health, Locavores, Permaculture, Sustainable, Technology, Uncategorized
Consumables, Edible Landscaping, Greening Home, Healthy, LEED, organic, Sustainable
What does it really mean to be green, everyone seems to have a different idea of what green is? We use the term green for everything such as buildings to drinks, home furnishings to laundry detergents, electricity to mouthwash. Let’s…
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Administrator
December 29, 2014
Community, Design, Harmful Chemicals, Permaculture, Uncategorized
Edible Landscaping, swale, water quality
Responsible water stewardship is an important topic that many people have not considered. Recently the Natural Resources Defense Council rated Ohio worst in the nation for water quality, worst in the nation. This is one distinction I do not want…
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Administrator
June 15, 2014
Edible Landscaping, Gardens, Uncategorized
Edible Landscaping, Gooseberry, Integrated Pest Management
I am behind on my usual duties in the garden, no excuses except I started late this year, the weather did not help, and I always try to accomplish more than I can possibly get done by myself. The last…
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Administrator
October 27, 2013
Edible Landscaping, Gardens, Our House, Uncategorized
Edible Landscaping, fertilizer, Perennial Plants
One of the highlights of the Master Gardener plant sale every spring is the throng of people that parade in early on Saturday morning to get the first pick of fresh pulled rhubarb and rhubarb plants. Betty Kizer of the…
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Administrator
August 27, 2013
Edible Landscaping, Gardens, Permaculture, Sustainable, Uncategorized
Edible Landscaping, figs, Perennial Plants
Figs are an ancient fruit that stir strong emotions with many immigrant groups that settled to this country, but the love of this delectable fruit goes back in time much further than a few hundred years. One of the earliest…
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August 17, 2013
Community, Edible Landscaping, Food Storage, Gardens, Permaculture, Uncategorized
Cherries, Edible Landscaping, Food Storage
Hansen cherry bush is marketed as a delicious edible landscaping bush which can be used in many urban settings where you wan to blend in a little with the neighbors, but you still want to be creating an edible landscaping…
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