HARMONIOUS HABITATS {book only}
Ever wanted to be a little more connected to the world around you, feel at home when outdoors, and be a part of the environmental stress solution? Then its time to get a little wild :)
You can create a patchwork piece in the great Quilt of Coexistence with whatever size patch of land that you care for. Fifty acres of forest, a small urban yard, or a balcony garden…. they all matter. Its easier than you think and this book is intended to break it down into digestible bits for anyone interested.
No matter if you want a yard as wild as your spirit, a tended garden fit for a strict HOA, a vegetable garden working with the wild, forest garden, or even balcony garden… all are here. Its time to be a part of the solution by creating our own Harmonious Habitats that offer safe havens for our wild kin seeking refuge.
WHY DID WE DO THIS? Because we had given up hope. We saw the shared home that we love so much being more destroyed by the day and began to feel hopeless. We didn’t give up and looked for movements that “normal” people can do to make a big impact. One of those movements is allowing the land that each of us care for to be a safe haven for our rooted and unrooted neighbors in nature that are quickly losing habitat and life. We CAN make a difference. We are the many. If we join our patches of land together, now that is one big chunk of land dedicated to rebuilding natural space. Its easy and its important.
The green yards that have become a common image are actually just an extremely outdated concept to prove one’s class and status. Centuries ago, it was a bragging right to have a perfectly manicured lawn. It showed that you were so wealthy, you didn’t have to grow your own food. A manicured and “clean” landscape was for royalty and the high class. After the industrial revolution, many folks jumped on this show boat to prove just how well they were doing too.
Now if you ask me, that concept is terribly outdated. In modern times, a yard filled with nourishing food for your family and safe haven for our at-risk species shows a forward thinking visionary that knows what is needed now. Not living in the past, but instead living in the moment and looking toward the future.
WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN THIS BOOK: Overview and greater understanding of this larger movement and mind shift. Yardlore explaining how we even got here with our green deserts filled with poisons and devoid of food, Ways your Harmonious Habitat can look for the Wild Garden, Tended Garden, Vegetable Garden, Forest Garden and Balcony Garden. A Native plant apothecary filled with herbal medicine info on native plants ready to support the ecosystem around you. Better understanding the war on weeds and if it is even necessary as well as what invasives actually are AND medicinal information on weeds and invasives you may also have in your yard. Making wild medicine, dosage tips and steps forward. Hope.
WHERE TO PURCHASE THE SEEDS/PLANTS MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK: Local nurseries are beginning to have more native and medicinal plant options as well as growers at farmers markets. If purchasing seeds, we do love Strictly Medicinal Seeds, they have seeds for all of the plants mentioned in this book ;)