Maria Lisa Polegatto July 2024
Gardening is an act of love and caring—exactly what we needed to focus on. A garden requires a helping hand and some attention at stressful times. In other times its beauty comes from just letting it be. What a teacher it is. It symbolizes life, growth and rebirth
Chris Adams (O’Brien, 2016 Chap 12.).
Chris Adams (O’Brien, 2016 Chap 12.).
People have been growing food for decades before it was known as gardening. I love my gardens and spending time in them to nurture the plants, wildlife, and myself in the process. Nature brings resilience and getting your hands in the dirt is a great way to connect with nature that we are a part of.
I can spend hours in the garden seeing how the plants seemingly magically grow, produce food and beautiful blooms, do weeding for the food to grow, find worms to add to the garden bed that aerate the soil, pick fresh grown food, listen to the birds, see the variety of bees and hummingbirds and more.
My favorite bees are the fuzzy big bumblebees, but I also appreciate the honeybee for the sweetness they create in honey.
I can spend hours in the garden seeing how the plants seemingly magically grow, produce food and beautiful blooms, do weeding for the food to grow, find worms to add to the garden bed that aerate the soil, pick fresh grown food, listen to the birds, see the variety of bees and hummingbirds and more.
My favorite bees are the fuzzy big bumblebees, but I also appreciate the honeybee for the sweetness they create in honey.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun,
heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just
the body, but the soul. Alfred Austin (Harris, 2024).
heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just
the body, but the soul. Alfred Austin (Harris, 2024).
Introduction. A garden at home can provide “greater diversity of perspectives” of the world especially around unexpected learning outcomes, such as in the garden (O’Brien & Howard, 2020). Each garden is akin to homeschooling yourself and your family.
Gardening with your family and community creates co-learning and interconnecting community with nature in sharing gardening skills and food (O’Brien & Howard, 2020). Planning your own garden can build a mindset for future benefits and skills (O’Brien & Howard, 2020). With the current cost of food, we can take positive action and have better wellbeing in the process
Gardening with your family and community creates co-learning and interconnecting community with nature in sharing gardening skills and food (O’Brien & Howard, 2020). Planning your own garden can build a mindset for future benefits and skills (O’Brien & Howard, 2020). With the current cost of food, we can take positive action and have better wellbeing in the process
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it
teaches entire trust. Gertrude Jekyll (Harris, 2024).
teaches entire trust. Gertrude Jekyll (Harris, 2024).
Gardening History. Gardening has changed throughout many years from methods of:
- Indigenous
- European
- Colonial
- Victorian
- war time
- organic
- urban
- vertical
- hydroponic
- cultural
- sustainable
- and more (Gardening Canada History, n.d.).
Prior European settlement in Canada, Indigenous peoples carried out various methods of gardening, which included cultivating crops such as:
which “were deeply intertwined with cultural practices and sustainable land stewardship” (Gardening Canada History, n.d.). Indigenous persons have been growing food for centuries and have much knowledge of native species in environments (Gardening Canada History, n.d.).
During the First World War gardens called War Gardens were encouraged, then in 1918 they became known as Liberty Gardens, and during World War II in the 1940s they were called Victory Gardens which then faded away until Coronavirus in 2019 when people started growing food in their backyards again (Stearns History Museum, 2020).
We have become so busy in our lives trying to keep up with life and expenses we have forgotten how to survive without modern day conveniences. Gardening brings us in touch with nature and activities of our ancestors to pass on to family and future descendants.
I like to call gardens “survival gardens” because they help you eat healthy, know what you are eating, help others survive and thrive in the process.
- corn
- beans
- squash. and
- tobacco”,
which “were deeply intertwined with cultural practices and sustainable land stewardship” (Gardening Canada History, n.d.). Indigenous persons have been growing food for centuries and have much knowledge of native species in environments (Gardening Canada History, n.d.).
During the First World War gardens called War Gardens were encouraged, then in 1918 they became known as Liberty Gardens, and during World War II in the 1940s they were called Victory Gardens which then faded away until Coronavirus in 2019 when people started growing food in their backyards again (Stearns History Museum, 2020).
We have become so busy in our lives trying to keep up with life and expenses we have forgotten how to survive without modern day conveniences. Gardening brings us in touch with nature and activities of our ancestors to pass on to family and future descendants.
I like to call gardens “survival gardens” because they help you eat healthy, know what you are eating, help others survive and thrive in the process.
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where
was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens,
local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
Joel Salatin (Harris, 2024).
was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens,
local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
Joel Salatin (Harris, 2024).
Learning Benefits from Childhood to Adult. We learn everyday and we are never too young or old to benefit from nature and learning how to grow with nature.
Childhood disposition for nature is central for them and the development of:
“Primary school age” children have substantial interest and integration “into their identity” for life which decreases from “adolescence” with the increase of “emotional and social needs” (Kong & Chen, 2024).
Ages 7–9 have the best interposition being the “concrete operational stage”, depicted by fast “cognitive and motor development”, for a desire to explore.
The critical period to grow awareness of nature is ages of 6 and 12 (Kong & Chen, 2024).
Seniors have a great knowledge of growing food as their generation did so when they were youth. Invite your senior relatives, friends, or neighbors into your garden for some gardening tips and co-learning.
Childhood disposition for nature is central for them and the development of:
- “biodiversity conservation”
- cultivate future “pro-environmental” adults
- substantial psychological and cognitive benefits
- “sensory stimuli” for “mental and physical health”
- “cognitive performance”
- provide “stress-relieving effects”
- high “subjective well-being”
- fostering “long-term intrinsic motivation” for essential satisfaction
- “sense of autonomy” (Kong & Chen, 2024).
“Primary school age” children have substantial interest and integration “into their identity” for life which decreases from “adolescence” with the increase of “emotional and social needs” (Kong & Chen, 2024).
Ages 7–9 have the best interposition being the “concrete operational stage”, depicted by fast “cognitive and motor development”, for a desire to explore.
The critical period to grow awareness of nature is ages of 6 and 12 (Kong & Chen, 2024).
Seniors have a great knowledge of growing food as their generation did so when they were youth. Invite your senior relatives, friends, or neighbors into your garden for some gardening tips and co-learning.
I like gardening—it's a place where I find myself when I need
to lose myself. Alice Sebold (Harris, 2024).
to lose myself. Alice Sebold (Harris, 2024).
Activities. To encourage children to spend time in the garden, make it fun. Some ideas are:
- Count the hours they spend in the garden each week and praise them for helping and give a Certificate of Achievement after the harvest is done for the hard work they have put in as garden assistant.
- Be creative by having them draw, sketch, or paint the plants to track growth rates and make a chart to keep track of watering schedules, different crops planted from year to year and different growth stages.
- Children can learn more about species of plants and animals by talking about the native plants in your yard and those that you added in. You can also discuss and look up pictures of animals that are in your yard and area and keep a journal.
- Having a picnic in the garden space is a great way to celebrate success and enjoy the harvest as it ripens.
- Sticks found in the yard can be used as stakes to hold up plants that need support so children learn how to interact with nature and use loose parts environmentally.
- If other people come to help in your garden, you can send them a thank you note, a plant, like string beans to grow at home, or some harvest to enjoy or come to enjoy a meal at your home.
- Children could do a journal of their garden journey by writing and drawing about the garden and changes that occur, for example, how the garden is built.
- Research could help learning by searching online or going to a local plant shop to learn about species to plant to attract pollinators.
If making a public garden space, fundraising goals can be set, and children can help with ideas that can be brainstormed about raising money to buy seeds and supplies, such as bottle exchange, going to local shops with parents to obtain supplies. Workshops could include parents and children to help them start their own garden at home.
Social media can be helpful, outside of garden time, to share to encourage others to start their own survival garden that can help reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change such as by having a compost pile. The garden can be a source of inclusion for all persons to enjoy and help.
Trellis’ and outdoor shelters can be built and left up after use to help nonhuman species survive too. Hollow plant stems can be used by insects, leaves that fall can be a great insulation for insects to spend the winter.
Social media can be helpful, outside of garden time, to share to encourage others to start their own survival garden that can help reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change such as by having a compost pile. The garden can be a source of inclusion for all persons to enjoy and help.
Trellis’ and outdoor shelters can be built and left up after use to help nonhuman species survive too. Hollow plant stems can be used by insects, leaves that fall can be a great insulation for insects to spend the winter.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not
grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.
They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (Harris, 2024).
grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.
They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (Harris, 2024).
Sustainable Gardens. Growing a sustainable garden can give back to your ecosystem instead of taking from it and help it be more self-sustaining (Crow, 2022). I use one rain barrel I purchased to hook a hose to and then made others that are garbage cans with the lids turned upside down with a hole in the top to catch the rain and filter into the can. Gardening does not need to be fancy or expensive. It is exciting when it rains and fills the rain barrels when they are near empty. Nature is amazing and under rated.
I also love to compost by adding food scraps of fruits and vegetables, eggshells, banana peelings, leaves, grass cuttings, paper, and cardboard to add extra nutrients and form to the soil. My compost bins are five pallets that make up 3 bins: soil to use now, soil in process of composting and one for sticks and logs I can use in the bottom of garden beds. I painted them green to blend in with the foliage.
Composting also cuts down on the garbage in landfills that eventually finds it way into water sources that pollute water ecosystems and eventually ends up in our food sources (Polegatto, 2020). Have you ever had trash blow into your yard? Did you clean it up? I do.
I reduce, recycle, reuse to help clean up environments I am in. You can also join your local non-profit organizations that clean up areas and you can use apps to count the amount of trash you have picked up in your area.
You can save your seeds as your plants grow so you don’t need to buy new seeds, use the companion planting method so your plants grow well together, and plant with native plants as a few examples of sustainable practices (Crow, 2022).
I have wild thyme that grows on my front lawn, so I leave it grow and enjoy the wonderful smell it produces. Did you know you can eat violets? I had planted a small violet plant that spread through my lawn on its own. My lawn sprouts with violets in the spring so I let it naturally grow and have a delicious snack while seeing their beauty. I also let the dandelions grow until they turn to fluff which blows away into the wind to spread their seeds for more dandelions for another year.
Garden twigs and sticks can be used to fill in planter boxes that are too big for containers inside of them. This also acts as an insulator during the winter to protect the plant roots from frost. My Hosta plants are grown in large planters that I put inside a wood planter I made. I used sticks on the bottom of the planter to lift up the Hosta’s plant and then secure around it with sticks and twigs I pick up around the yard so I do not mow over them.
Any grass clippings are added to the compost pile. I also mow over the clippings to mulch them into the grass instead of racking them up.
When moving to a new home, you can let the garden grow naturally to see what pops up before you cut what you may think is weeds. There are apps where you scan a plant on your phone to see what it is. One of my neighbors is doing that and finding many plants she did not plant herself. I have even had plants sprout up that I did not plant that turned into beautiful rose bushes and flowering plants that feed the birds in the fall when berries are not plentiful. I also have a maple tree that has small maple trees sprouting around it, so I replant them in pots to grow in nature in other areas instead of mowing them.
A garden with leaves that are not raked up is not a mess. It is an ecosystem for the wellbeing of all species.
I also love to compost by adding food scraps of fruits and vegetables, eggshells, banana peelings, leaves, grass cuttings, paper, and cardboard to add extra nutrients and form to the soil. My compost bins are five pallets that make up 3 bins: soil to use now, soil in process of composting and one for sticks and logs I can use in the bottom of garden beds. I painted them green to blend in with the foliage.
Composting also cuts down on the garbage in landfills that eventually finds it way into water sources that pollute water ecosystems and eventually ends up in our food sources (Polegatto, 2020). Have you ever had trash blow into your yard? Did you clean it up? I do.
I reduce, recycle, reuse to help clean up environments I am in. You can also join your local non-profit organizations that clean up areas and you can use apps to count the amount of trash you have picked up in your area.
You can save your seeds as your plants grow so you don’t need to buy new seeds, use the companion planting method so your plants grow well together, and plant with native plants as a few examples of sustainable practices (Crow, 2022).
I have wild thyme that grows on my front lawn, so I leave it grow and enjoy the wonderful smell it produces. Did you know you can eat violets? I had planted a small violet plant that spread through my lawn on its own. My lawn sprouts with violets in the spring so I let it naturally grow and have a delicious snack while seeing their beauty. I also let the dandelions grow until they turn to fluff which blows away into the wind to spread their seeds for more dandelions for another year.
Garden twigs and sticks can be used to fill in planter boxes that are too big for containers inside of them. This also acts as an insulator during the winter to protect the plant roots from frost. My Hosta plants are grown in large planters that I put inside a wood planter I made. I used sticks on the bottom of the planter to lift up the Hosta’s plant and then secure around it with sticks and twigs I pick up around the yard so I do not mow over them.
Any grass clippings are added to the compost pile. I also mow over the clippings to mulch them into the grass instead of racking them up.
When moving to a new home, you can let the garden grow naturally to see what pops up before you cut what you may think is weeds. There are apps where you scan a plant on your phone to see what it is. One of my neighbors is doing that and finding many plants she did not plant herself. I have even had plants sprout up that I did not plant that turned into beautiful rose bushes and flowering plants that feed the birds in the fall when berries are not plentiful. I also have a maple tree that has small maple trees sprouting around it, so I replant them in pots to grow in nature in other areas instead of mowing them.
A garden with leaves that are not raked up is not a mess. It is an ecosystem for the wellbeing of all species.
Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. Wendell Berry (Harris, 2024).
Make Your Own Soil. This year I made my own soil mix to add more nutrients in my raised garden bed. I used a mix of:
I learned from a gardener on YouTube, James Prigioni (2024). I have noticed my garden is growing better this year.
I also made the bed using concrete garden blocks that you insert 2”x 6” boards in to make the garden the size you desire. The garden can be modified from year to year with this system and built up by stacking blocks.
I layered my garden bed to use less soil for a more natural base and less cost (Prigioni, 2024). The steps I did were:
I wanted to have a good mix of nutrients for seeds and transplants to grow well for a good food harvest. I did notice some acorns I had for my acorn project (Polegatto, 2024) that did not sprout yet, did sprout in the new soil mix.
- perlite
- vermiculite
- peat moss, and
- soil
I learned from a gardener on YouTube, James Prigioni (2024). I have noticed my garden is growing better this year.
I also made the bed using concrete garden blocks that you insert 2”x 6” boards in to make the garden the size you desire. The garden can be modified from year to year with this system and built up by stacking blocks.
I layered my garden bed to use less soil for a more natural base and less cost (Prigioni, 2024). The steps I did were:
- remove grass from the area for the garden
- add layers of cardboard to the ground to stop new grass from growing up
- layer of newspaper
- layer of logs and sticks
- layer of leaves
- layer of compost from my compost pile
- layer of old soil
- then the layer of the new soil mix I made above.
I wanted to have a good mix of nutrients for seeds and transplants to grow well for a good food harvest. I did notice some acorns I had for my acorn project (Polegatto, 2024) that did not sprout yet, did sprout in the new soil mix.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is
to forget ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi (Harris, 2024).
to forget ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi (Harris, 2024).
Attracting Wildlife. Not only can we grow our own food in times of consumerism and rising food prices, but we can also encourage wildlife into our garden.
Adding flowering plants and trees around your garden will attract pollinators to your garden to help produce more food. There are many ways to attract wildlife, especially pollinators to help the garden flourish (Mizejewski, 2022), such as:
Many pollinators are endangered and need our help to survive (Xerces Society, n.d.). Very sadly, we are facing the biggest species extinction since the age of dinosaurs (United Nations, n.d.).
Adding flowering plants and trees around your garden will attract pollinators to your garden to help produce more food. There are many ways to attract wildlife, especially pollinators to help the garden flourish (Mizejewski, 2022), such as:
- feeders with seeds and nuts for birds and squirrels
- adding mason bee, leaf cutter bee and butterfly houses and plants that attract them,
- water sources to feed wildlife,
- growing fruit trees which produce food and provide shade.
Many pollinators are endangered and need our help to survive (Xerces Society, n.d.). Very sadly, we are facing the biggest species extinction since the age of dinosaurs (United Nations, n.d.).
The garden suggests there might be a place where
we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan (Harris, 2024).
we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan (Harris, 2024).
What to plant. What you choose to plant may be different than what I plant based on your food preferences and location. I like to plant food that is easy to grow, is tasty and grows well in my environment.
With climate change we are learning to adapt to heat waves and flooding that can affect your garden season. Keeping an eye on the weather is helpful to know if watering the garden is necessary if rain is imminent or you need to cover your plants with frost warnings.
This year I am growing:
The first year I grew sweet million tomatoes they grew 7 feet tall, so I had to stake them higher and higher but had a delicious snack everyday in my backyard.
Be careful growing crops that can take over your garden space. I grew raspberries one year and they destroyed the rest of my garden by over taking and dwarfing everything. I did have a delicious summer eating them but had to remove them from that area.
Not everything produces an abundance of food as a garden is a learning experience and the weather can affect where and what you plant. Researching plant information and planting zones can help you decide which plants to grow, when to start them, their growing season and days to maturity, whether they grow annually or every year (perennials).
There are natural ways you can add nutrients to your plants without using chemical fertilizers. Companion plants and essential oils can help your plants grow better such as a basil plant or a drop of basil essential oil in a large jug of water to feed your tomatoes, peppermint to ward off ants and aphids, white fir for slugs, TerraShield for beetles, deep blue for sore muscles after a day in the garden and lavender for the insect bites (doTERRA, 2020).
While your body may be sore after a long garden weeding session your mind and soul will be in joyous wellbeing for spending time with nature. I find gardening so therapeutic and rewarding.
With climate change we are learning to adapt to heat waves and flooding that can affect your garden season. Keeping an eye on the weather is helpful to know if watering the garden is necessary if rain is imminent or you need to cover your plants with frost warnings.
This year I am growing:
- Roma tomatoes
- cherry tomatoes
- cucumbers
- squash
- asparagus
- green and yellow string beans
- carrots
- carrot tops for seeds for next year
- green peppers
- chives
- strawberries
- blueberries
- sunflowers
- two apple trees
- prune tree
- rhubarb
- five-variety fruit tree
- companion plants
- wildflowers and flowering plants.
The first year I grew sweet million tomatoes they grew 7 feet tall, so I had to stake them higher and higher but had a delicious snack everyday in my backyard.
Be careful growing crops that can take over your garden space. I grew raspberries one year and they destroyed the rest of my garden by over taking and dwarfing everything. I did have a delicious summer eating them but had to remove them from that area.
Not everything produces an abundance of food as a garden is a learning experience and the weather can affect where and what you plant. Researching plant information and planting zones can help you decide which plants to grow, when to start them, their growing season and days to maturity, whether they grow annually or every year (perennials).
There are natural ways you can add nutrients to your plants without using chemical fertilizers. Companion plants and essential oils can help your plants grow better such as a basil plant or a drop of basil essential oil in a large jug of water to feed your tomatoes, peppermint to ward off ants and aphids, white fir for slugs, TerraShield for beetles, deep blue for sore muscles after a day in the garden and lavender for the insect bites (doTERRA, 2020).
While your body may be sore after a long garden weeding session your mind and soul will be in joyous wellbeing for spending time with nature. I find gardening so therapeutic and rewarding.
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. David Hobson (Harris, 2024).
Garden DIY Projects. You can make your own garden projects instead of buying them to save cost. Make sure you practice safety measures when using power tools.
I have made things to add to my garden area to help wildlife, grow vertically, and make gardening easier such as:
Think up too when gardening for vertical spaces so less room is required. I even use my clothesline to hang planters on and bird feeders. My maple tree houses a base with flowers and upside-down pots and insect houses, clay saucers for water, and bird houses in the branches.
While some people deter squirrels from their garden, I love to see them scamper in the tree branches, so I put out nuts for them in an easy to reach feeder just for them.
I also have several water sources for wildlife – hummingbird feeder, water saucers filled with rocks and pebbles, so wildlife has a landing pad, bird bath with rock to land on.
Last year there was an owl in the area that hooted at night. I never saw the owl but the hoot was such a blessing to hear.
All species need to be loved and fed and protected. In this day of reckoning we need to leave no species behind. All are vital for the web of life on our natural planet.
I have made things to add to my garden area to help wildlife, grow vertically, and make gardening easier such as:
- bird houses
- bird feeders
- pergola to grow hanging planter strawberries and hold a mason bee house
- patio pergola for a hammock area to enjoy reading in nature,
- potting bench
- trellis’
- window boxes.
Think up too when gardening for vertical spaces so less room is required. I even use my clothesline to hang planters on and bird feeders. My maple tree houses a base with flowers and upside-down pots and insect houses, clay saucers for water, and bird houses in the branches.
While some people deter squirrels from their garden, I love to see them scamper in the tree branches, so I put out nuts for them in an easy to reach feeder just for them.
I also have several water sources for wildlife – hummingbird feeder, water saucers filled with rocks and pebbles, so wildlife has a landing pad, bird bath with rock to land on.
Last year there was an owl in the area that hooted at night. I never saw the owl but the hoot was such a blessing to hear.
All species need to be loved and fed and protected. In this day of reckoning we need to leave no species behind. All are vital for the web of life on our natural planet.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything
that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.
Gardening is an instrument of grace. May Sarton (Harris, 2024).
that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.
Gardening is an instrument of grace. May Sarton (Harris, 2024).
Conclusion. We need to get back to growing our own food to learn how to survive. The forces of nature are getting fiercer with climate change such as hurricanes and natural disasters.
There is nothing like having your hands in the soil to connect with nature and build mental, physical, and spiritual well being. A great environment to learn while gaining wellbeing from nature is in your own garden. It helps you survive; other species survive and provides wellbeing for all involved.
Sharing our garden practices and skills with others is a great way to build a community of wellbeing.
What plants and food are you growing in your garden?
Do you have skills you can share to help others grow food?
Is there a senior in your neighborhood you can invite into your garden?
Feel free to share this article with others to encourage others to add nature benefiting aspects to their garden.
Grow up, grow out, grow long beds, short beds, let roots grow down, nurture yourself with nature, be nature that we are, be you, be well!
Whatever you do – grow a survival garden :)
There is nothing like having your hands in the soil to connect with nature and build mental, physical, and spiritual well being. A great environment to learn while gaining wellbeing from nature is in your own garden. It helps you survive; other species survive and provides wellbeing for all involved.
Sharing our garden practices and skills with others is a great way to build a community of wellbeing.
What plants and food are you growing in your garden?
Do you have skills you can share to help others grow food?
Is there a senior in your neighborhood you can invite into your garden?
Feel free to share this article with others to encourage others to add nature benefiting aspects to their garden.
Grow up, grow out, grow long beds, short beds, let roots grow down, nurture yourself with nature, be nature that we are, be you, be well!
Whatever you do – grow a survival garden :)
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll (Harris, 2024)
Gertrude Jekyll (Harris, 2024)
 Wildlife water source  Water source in garden  Wild tansy which the bees feast on  DIY rain barrel from a garbage can  Water source for wildlife with rocks, shells and peddles to land on |  String beans growing in a pot with support  Wild thyme growing in my garden  Starting tomato seeds inside for the garden  Hammock to read in nature and relax listening to the birds singing  I found this at home depot going to the trash and took it home to use as a garden trellis |  Green pepper seeds to grow and a plum seed and peach seed to try my hand at regrowing  Flower for the bees to feast on for a source of pollen.  Plants to attract the bees and butterflies  Blueberries  Insect/frog house |  Seeds I obtained from my local Library and stores to grow  Bird feeder  Patio pergola for some shade  Rhubarb  DIY planter |
Additional Resources
10 Ways to Save Pollinators
Fixing food’s big climate problem
National Wildlife Federation - Certified Wildlife Habitat - Certify your Garden
Canadian Wildlife Federation - Garden Habitat Certification
Sustainable Garden Ideas – 28 ways to create an eco-friendly garden
Fixing food’s big climate problem
National Wildlife Federation - Certified Wildlife Habitat - Certify your Garden
Canadian Wildlife Federation - Garden Habitat Certification
Sustainable Garden Ideas – 28 ways to create an eco-friendly garden
Gardening History
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My Garden Tour
Gardening Tips I found helpful
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DIY Gardening Projects
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United Nations SDG 15: Life on Land
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