Lawn/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...lawnCreeping Herbs, such as thyme and oregano Thyme makes a bee friendly, eco-friendlylawnalternative Japanese Sweet Flag Japanese Sweet Flag is a bright & eco-friendlylawnoption Buffalo Grass Buffalo Grass makes an eco friendlylawnClover choose Clover for a lower ...

...lawns. Also see our page on bee-friendly ground covers as an alternative tolawns , as providing habitat for bees is an essential part of food production to encourage polination. A lasagna garden relies on recycled newspaper, cardboard, leaf materials, and traditional compost and soil material to achieve this, and ...

千层面园艺——这是什么?The easiest way to turn a backyardlawninto an organic food-producing garden is by building a lasagna garden, as there is no digging required. The first thing we will clear up for any rookie gardeners; we aren’t planting noodle trees where we will be harvesting penne and rigatoni. ...

一旦你知道怎么做，在你的房产上合法地安装一间小房子通常是可能的。微型住宅行业协会(THIA)与各州和社区合作，帮助他们认识到有一个朝着小型住宅发展的新趋势，并适应……

...lawn, there are drought resistant seed mixes available. Some are actually known as ' LEED grass '. If you are ready to break out of the norm, there are many ground covers available that are low maintenance, require infrequent cutting and are even edible. View The EcoHome Guide to Eco-FriendlyLawnAlternatives and Gr...

...Lawns, for instance, can easily be transformed into garden plots, flowering perenial gardens can often accomodate plants that are both beautiful and edible, even forested areas on your property can produce food (and in some cases might already have something wild worth harvesting). 6.) Community gardens No so...

...lawn- Read the EcoHome Guide Here For further reading, we found the following sites quite helpful: Total Habitat The Pond Clinic, Ottawa, ON

Invasive plants are defined as plants from other continents, countries or even other regions of Canada. Humans have been introducing foreign plants to new lands since the 17th century, for horticultural, agricultural or medicinal purposes. Due to a lack of natural competitors they can often propagate swiftly and compl...

...lawnand driveway is directed away from your basement, not towards it. Having checked all that, and having prevented sudden and excess spring thaw water from arriving in your man-cave, the easiest and cheapest way to prevent basement floods is with a correctly specified and operational sump pump . Gutter downspou...

Do Tru-Earth Eco-Strips laundry detergent actually get clothes clean? Any new product such as this can be met instantly with skepticism, or at least perhaps ‘curiosity’ as to whether they will work as well as claimed. So the first question – Do Tru Earth laundry detergent strips actually work? We tried these laundry...

Net Zero Homes - the design & certification process In May of 2017, the Canadian Home Builders Association [CHBA] officially launched its Net Zero Home Labelling Program , following the successful completion of a 15-month pilot project to validate technical and administrative procedures for building net zero homes i...