by Tom Girolamo | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
This time of year many people get the itch to start plants indoors in cold climates, but we are still months away from outdoor gardening. Starting tomatoes, peppers and other warm season plants indoors now is too early and the results will be disappointing. Yes, you...
by Tom Girolamo | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Growing just a little of what our families eat can put us back in touch with nature, help foster understanding of where food comes from and realize the real value of what is in our diets. Home production can also help to protect, preserve and create abundance of...
by Tom Girolamo | Mar 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Late winter is a good time to plan out easy ways to accomplish maintenance of your landscape. Often, caring for a landscape is repetitious drudgery that you must do in a timely fashion to avoid greater problems. You squeeze in the lawn mowing, weeding or trimming at...
by Tom Girolamo | Feb 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Solar panels, wind generators, electric cars and other human created technology receive a lot of attention in the media as a way to meet our daily needs while reducing our impact on the environment. At the same time our natural environment is silently doing the heavy...
by Tom Girolamo | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Outdoor enthusiasts are upending the tradition of winter nights spent poring over seed catalogs in anticipation of hours of laboring in the dirt come spring. Instead of just picking out special seeds and plants, property owners are creating well thought out plans with...
by Tom Girolamo | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Are you confused about what “sustainable” really means? There has been volumes written about this subject, yet its very essence is elusive. An unreliable approach to sustainability is often on what manufactured appliance to purchase, type of methods to implement or...