4 Easy Ways to Help Make Your Garden (or Landscape) More Sustainable
Sustainability is a hot topic right now in the gardening world. With Earth Day coming up next week, it’s more important than ever to be educated about what we can do at home, in our communities and in other areas to lessen our collective impact on local, natural ecosystems through our gardening and landscaping practices. […]
Sustainability Efforts at the Garden: Part Two
Last week, we shared some of the sustainable actions we’ve been taking behind the scenes and how the Garden is committed to reducing our energy and resource use. This week learn more about how we’re bringing these environmental awareness initiatives and more to Garden visitors. Education is a large part of what we focus on […]
Sustainability Efforts at the Garden: Part One
Green Bay Botanical Garden is a place for people to engage with nature and each other, to be inspired by the amazing sights and scents, and to be refreshed throughout the year. In cultivating a space for people to grow, we must take care to keep our garden, and our planet, thriving for a long […]
Composting for Beginners: 5 Easy Steps to Get Started
Many people feel like gardening is a significant challenge. While some aspects of gardening are more complex, there is one that certainly isn’t: composting! Compost is a nutrient rich soil addition that can enrich your garden bed and help your plants grow better and bigger. Compost provides much more nutrients than fertilizer does; it also […]
5 Ways to Start Regenerative Gardening for Better Soil Health
The idea of growing plants in harmony with the land is not a new concept, in fact, quite the opposite is true. First Nations cultures in America have been using farming practices focused on replenishing the land far before our modern practices took root. Recently, a new trend known as Regenerative Gardening is incorporating some […]
No Mow May: 3 Ways Not Mowing Your Lawn Benefits Your Landscape and Pollinators
Mowing the lawn and tending to your green spaces seems intriguing when the summer of 2020 is mostly canceled. However, in 2019 before the coronavirus arrived, Plantlife — a wild plant conservation charity — asked citizen scientists across the United Kingdom in 2019 to participate in “Every Flower Counts.” This project required some people to […]
