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Resources
ELA counts many ecological professionals among its members and supporters. We sometimes highlight their work and share their expertise through product and book reviews, or by asking them to answer specific questions posed to the ELA community.
Gleanings from Headline News – April 2020
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience.
Inspired by Spring
Compiled by Penny Lewis
Within the articles and illustrations of the ELA Newsletter, you will typically learn about design, installation, and maintenance as they relate to resilient landscapes. As we process quarantines, social distancing, shutdowns, and shortages, we offer these inspirational words as personal sustenance while we await return to normalcy.
Book Review: No-till Intensive Vegetable Culture
Written by Bryan O’Hara; Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020
Reviewed by ML Altobelli
You may think a book by this title is not for the ecological landscape professional, but the author’s understanding of the world of soils and plants is every bit as useful whether you are growing tomatoes or lady slipper orchids.
Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
by Jim Shephard
In spite of severe drought, downturn economy, horrendous rainy springs, lack of labor, plant disease epidemics, locusts, lantern flies, huge competition, even hurricanes plant lovers are a resilient bunch and carry on. It can help to look at the glass as half full.
Gleanings from Headline News – March 2020
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience.
ELA News – March 2020
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ELA News – February 2020
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Gleanings from Headline News – February 2020
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience.
The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
by Jennifer Jewell
Women have been sowers of seeds and tenders of seedlings for a very, very long time. For much of that time these women didn’t have the time or the means to document their history. There is no telling the whole story of women making their lives with plants or women broadening the field of plant knowledge and practice. I can’t even superficially acknowledge all the women in plants who’ve cultivated this territory before us, except to say the compost-rich soil they left behind is what germinated the seeds that grew the vibrant women I’m writing about today.
Gleanings from Headline News – January 2020
We’ve scanned the media – in print and online – for items of interest to ELA’s ecologically focused audience.
ELA News – January 2020
Learn about upcoming programs and find out what’s happening within the organization.
