by Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker From Artful Rainwater Design by Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker. Copyright©2015 by the authors. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Arizona State…
A Pruning Guide
by David Anderson David will lead a hands-on pruning demonstration and discussion on March 9th at the ELA Conference. As landscapers and horticulturalists pruning is a very important part of our work….
Book Review: The Carbon Farming Solution
The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security Written by Eric Toensmeier Published by Chelsea Green Publishing,…
Eco-Answers from the Pros: Carbon-conscious Planting
I am on a landscaping committee for a community that sits upon approximately 20 acres. We want to (probably gradually) turn our landscape into one with native plants that support…
Lessons Learned from a Stormwater Wetland Treatment System
by Randy Rath It has been several years since the historic West Brook Conservation Initiative (WBCI) came online and started to treat stormwater flowing into Lake George in upstate New…
Book Review: Two Percent Solutions for the Planet
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change Written by Courtney White Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015 Reviewed by…
Solutions Abound
by Courtney White This excerpt is adapted from Courtney White’s book Two Percent Solutions for the Planet (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015) and is printed with permission from the publisher. We…
Soil as a Living System
by Leslie Jones Sauer Soil wears its problems on the surface. Where trampling or high rates of decomposition prevail, the litter layer and topsoil are entirely absent. Until recently, the…
About the Weather, Job Satisfaction and “Maintenance” – A Season in Review
by Thomas Berger Mid-February It is an unusually warm February morning in Southern Maine: 50 degrees and the birds are singing, even some insects buzzing around, a bit scary for…
More than Just a Pollinator Garden
by Tara Mitchell The landscape has long been shaped by economics. Marketing tells us which plants are weeds and which are desirable, which insects are pests to be eradicated and…
Managing “Wear and Tear” in Heavy-use Landscapes
by Ronnit Bendavid-Val As parks and gardens get more and more use by the public especially in our urban areas, many places are seeing increasing effects of this heavier use…
Designing with Maintenance in Mind
As we come to the end of a long season of garden maintenance, we’ve asked three ELA members to share three recommendations they want to keep in mind when they start designing for…