Posts Tagged ‘plants’

You’re never too young (or old) to learn about the environment. Last week, the District celebrated the third annual School Garden Week where students of all ages (including those of us not technically in school anymore) participated in a variety of educational and fun …

This one is for Simone.

Few DC residents have big beautiful yards to garden in, but that doesn’t mean you have to suppress your green thumb. All across the Metro-DC area, there are community gardens for locals to nurture and cultivate their own little piece of ground.

Community gardens are pieces of land set aside and divided up for communal gardening. The process by which you reserve a space in a community garden …

As DC’s outside temperatures increase and we see more sunny days, it’s going to be harder and harder to keep the soil in your garden, and in your planters, moist.

It’s vital that the soil stays damp because the bacteria and microbial communities living in the dirt are helping your plants grow. If the soil becomes too dry, these communities die off and the soil must be replaced.

Of course, we all know …

The District and Casey Trees are running a program until the end of the month whereby you plant a tree on your property and you’ll get a $50 rebate.  It’s a great opportunity for homeowners to beautify their property and get money back.

The rules are simple:

You plant a tree
You promise to care for it
You fill out a form, and mail it to Casey Trees
Casey Trees sends you a check for the …

So, traditionally when we think about reusing trash we think about recycling; a process that can be loosely described as taking trash in the form of a bottle, paper, bag, etc. and creating a new bottle, paper, or bag down the road. Well, a young entrepreneur/Princeton drop-out has become very successful by getting even more creative and more eco-friendly with his re-use of trash.

Tom Szaky and his co-founder Jon Beyer started their …