A Female-Owned and Operated Gardening Cooperative Creates a New Business Model With Nature as “our foremost collaborator”
Andrea Hurd of Oakland, California describes the way she structured Mariposa Gardening and Design Cooperative, Inc. to provide employee equitability and management experience for women breaking into the field, and the firm’s commitment to celebrating the local landscape by enhancing habitat and working with indigenous materials.
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Finding Opportunity in a Common Landscape Roadblock
Switching to more environmentally friendly practices is too often resisted by landscape professionals afraid to stray from familiar routines. Mariah Whitmore and Tony Piazza, both prominent landscape business owners in the eastern end of Long Island, New York, discuss how they are increasing profits by adding Nature friendly land care to their repertoire.
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A Game-Changing Shortcut to Creating a Native Meadow
Claire Chambers, founder of Meadow Lab, describes the roll-out sod her company is producing that can transform a landscape into a blooming, mature meadow of native flowers and grasses in a single growing season
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The Overlooked Beauty and Garden Services of Wasps
A replay of a conversation from April of 2021 with Pollinator Conservationist Heather Holm about her multi-award-winning book, Wasps, Their Biology, Diversity, and Role as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants.
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A New Guide for Helping Your Native Plant Garden Adapt to a Changing Climate
Jenica Allen and Matt Fertakos of Northeast RISCC describe the invaluable free online guide they helped to create that provides all a gardener needs to know about selecting native plants that will flourish not only today but also persist as the local climate changes
Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.
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