I remember the first Earth Day. I was in junior high school and a group of us students picked up roadside trash while carrying signs proclaiming Earth Day. The young and idealistic were leading the way to a better future where humans would live in harmony with nature while saving the planet in the bargain. Sound familiar? Could it really have been 38 years ago?. . .
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While I was driving all over creation yesterday looking looking for shrubs (wasting gas, destroying the ozone etc...) I was thinking about how, in 2008, it's cool to be green. Leave it to us to commercialize and capitalize on the green movement. . . .
Organic gardening is like celebrating Earth Day every day of the year. One can't garden organically without developing a deep love of the Earth and a profound respect for the...
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Green Talk turned one in the beginning of April and I thought it would be appropriate for Earth Day to give you a summary of my posts for the year. . .
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This is the time of year when it's so easy to convince myself that I am a masterful gardener because the greenery is so vigorous and abundant and the blossoms could take your breath away. In reality, it's just Nature doing what it has to do and it doesn't have anything to do with me at all. I will take credit for planting this dicentra spectabilis against the picturesque cottage fence, though.
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Last summer I was disappointed to find that our next-door neighbour had hired a non-organic company to take care of their lawn. Graham and I would sit out back, drinking our coffee in the morning, and then suddenly the powerful, sickening smell of the pesticide/herbicide cocktail would waft into our yard. Annoyed, disgusted, we’d head back indoors to finish our coffee. . . .
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It’s Earth Day again… The day on which I feel I am compelled by internet peer pressure to post something (thank god they are not pressuring me to drink, I do enough of that already). Which makes me unhappy. I don’t like that gardening and environmentalism are supposedly tied hand in hand.
Gardening is a hobby. . .
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What are you doing to celebrate? Jess is going to get a compost bin started.
I'm going to work a little more in the garden, and organize a specific spot for our recycling, to make it easier to take out. It doesn't sound too progressive, but the more organized we are at the Sweet Haven Farm (our unpublicized name), the more successful we are. . ..
In celebration of Earth Day today, here’s a much belated update on the dogwood we’ve been watching. Above, that’s a blossom this morning — 30 days after Easter. I think it’s safe to say she’s at full blossom now! In case you’re new to the blog, readers have been guessing when my dogwood would blossom. [...]
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"Oh the days are long/ 'Til the baby comes..." - Sinead O'Connor
That's right - I'm still waiting for this baby. One week past my due date and just learned today that the baby, which for the last nine months has been perfectly positioned, has rotated and is now posterior. This just confirms my suspicions that he or she will be a shit disturber. . ..
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Earth Day 2008 (April 22) is right around the corner. The Earth Day celebration is virtually the holiday of environmentalism. Find out how you can modify your yard maintenance approach...
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Gregory did a fantastic job painting a tree on his Earth Day shirt. I love the sponge work!
I am blessed with talented children. (Nevermind the juice stain at the top of the tree. Kinda looks like lightening, don’t you think?)
And nevermind that it took me WEEKS to dig up the Earth Day picture and post it. Funny how the timing worked out that I posted the homemade tree-shirt picture on Arbor Day! I swear I did not plan that.
Happy Earth Day! Today we celebrated by kayaking from the Rickenbacker Causeway near Key Biscayne to a little bitty, approximately 1/2 acre island about a quarter mile or so offshore. We attended a Geocaching CITO (Cache In, Trash Out) event with some local Miami cachers. Holy wrecked island. Obviously the people who illegally visit this island (there are no trespassing signs) love their Corona's and Heineken's. What made me most angry was how many plastic bags were wrapped around the the tree's and debris. We pulled up tarps, grill's, all sorts of crap. The place looked great afterwards, though there are lots of little broken pieces of glass that we couldn't get. Luckily we did not have to haul the trash bags out as the people who set the event up coordinated with the city of Miami, who owns the island, to come out and get the trash. When the photos are posted I'll post a link. Then we did two caches that are on some mangrove islands nearby. It was a nice day out on the ocean. Oh, we did see dolphins and I saw a itty bitty file fish at a buoy, hovering near the rope that was tethered on. I think he thought it was sargassum. Chris saw a manta ray but I was elsewhere when he saw it. *lucky*
Now, for photos of last week. Sabatia grandiflora and Erigeron quercifolius
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Do you have a love hate relationship with Earth Day? Here are some thoughts on this special day, and a few suggestions on ways a gardener can celebrate.
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