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Many homeowners are looking to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle. With hopes of improving the planet and doing your part to support the environment around you, you may also be interested in making this change; however, it is not always easy to know where to get started. If you want to make your home and living situation more sustainable, here are several ways that you can embrace this lifestyle change.

With the beginning of spring the garden is waking up and it probably needs some TLC. Just like giving your house a good spring cleaning after the cold winter months, with a similar approach freshen up your yard and garden by doing a spring cleanup. 

Some early spring cleanup tasks are a given during this time of year. If you want to make your garden pretty and healthy for the warmer seasons, just follow the steps in the spring cleanup checklist below.

I, for one, never really cared about gardening.

The whole “start a home garden” trend seemed like another part of the organic eating phase. If you’re still on the fence about starting your own garden because you don’t buy into the organic trend, I get you. Really.

Even if you want to eat organic food, you may need some convincing to commit to a home garden. It does take some work, and you may need to persuade your family to help, as well.

In-Ground Underground

Vanessa Harden channels her inner James Bond for the collection of covert gardening devices she’s designed for her subversive guerrilla gardening exploits. Together with like-minded cohorts, she secretly plants flowers, shrubs, and vegetables in her neighborhood’s neglected spaces.

by Nicole Brait | Urban Gardens

If you have nutrient poor soil don’t despair, you have the beginnings of a great Mediterranean herb garden.

Not only do Mediterranean herbs thrive in nutrient poor soils, they are drought tolerant, they don’t require much maintenance, most are perennial, and they are flavorful and aromatic.