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Gardening Intro Gardening Resources Water Intro Conserving Water Rain Garden/Green Roof

 

 

Whatever we do to any other thing in the great web of life, we do to ourselves, for we are one.

- Brooke Medicine Eagle

 

Gardening Queries

 

Am I mindful of the needs of the land under my care? What lessons am I learning from tending to those needs?

 

Gardening Resourcestop
  • Gardening Book: Fialka, Deborah R. The Washington Star garden book: the encyclopedia of gardening for the District, Maryland, and Virginia. Arlington, VA, Washington Book Trading Co., 1994. 249 pp – probably the best guide to gardening in the area.

 

 
sprinkler Watertop
Water Queries

 

Am I using my fair share of water? Are there ways to decrease this use? How much energy does it take to provide the hot water in my home? How am I handling the storm water around my home?

 

Conserving Water top

 

Rain Gardens and Greef Roofstop
  • Lotus  Design and Consulting, 11928 Escalante Court Reston, VA 20191,Ph: 202.747.3927, Cell 703.489.0386, Fax  703.991.0045, lotusdc@comcast.net– company run by FMW Attender Melissa Gildea; does environmentally-friendly garden design and green roofs. She says, “Listen to your soil to find out what it needs.”