Category: Ecological Landscape Design
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How to Certify Your Yard as a Wildlife Habitat
There are many options to certify your yard as a wildlife habitat depending on where you live. Why Certify a yard as a wildlife habitat? Here are some of the things you get with a certification: How Wildlife Habitats Help Your Neighborhood Turning your yard into a wildlife habitat can have huge benefits for your…
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Q&A with Tom Corson-Knowles on Ecological Landscaping
I was contacted by a landscaping magazine to do a Q&A article featuring ecological landscapers, but I never heard back from them, so I figured I would share the Q&A here on the blog. Other than the U.S., which country’s landscape inspires you the most? Ecuador! The mountains and rainforest there are stunning, and I…
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The Relationship Between Permaculture and Invasive Species
Permaculture is an attempt to incorporate indigenous wisdom, local ecology, and an understanding that all living beings including humans are connected in the web of life from the tiniest bacteria to the largest whales. Permaculture is a design process, a way of observing, learning about, and caretaking land that is intended to provide sustainable abundant…
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Ecological Landscape Design Philosophy
What is ecological landscape design and why is it different than typical landscape design? Typical landscape design is based on a set of design principles that are largely based on convention. In other words, they design things the way they do because that’s the way people have done it for a long time and that’s…