Category Archives: sustainable greenery

whats your plan for october 1st ?

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For some lucky states October 1st is a long weekend, so already plans are in full swing to load up the car and escape for a change of scenery. Although there is of course those of us who will choose to stay put in our local area and soak up the action and good times [...]
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the ol’garden shed

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Whether it be a place you store a few of those rusty gardening tools, your workshop retreat or a forever growing storage area, I’m sure we can all agree our humble little backyard dwellings leave much to be desired. But don’t be disheartened, there are many ways to improve this outdoor space!  How about a [...]
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a Swiss woodie

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An open-air tree museum located on 10ha of land near Lake Zurich has just opened it doors. This open-air museum is the brainchild of well know Landscape Architect ‘Enzo Enea’ and showcases an array of trees he has collected over the past 17 years. I personally love to stroll around the MCA or the Art [...]
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the indoor vertical garden

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Another great garden profile from Dwell Magazine > Botanist Patrick Blanc has been bringing the wilds of the rainforests to Parisian walls for over 30 years, most recently at the Jean Nouvel–designed Quai Branly museum. One lucky family, however, doesn’t have to go any farther than their living room to take in the wonders of [...]
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little vertical gardens

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Here at Eco we love a bit of green goodness in life and this little ditty from Pete in Sydney is no exception. It’s called a Vegetal Screen which I guess is supposed to mean vegetation cover or something of the like. The company Vertilignes tells us they are reinventing vegetation in the interior space [...]
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not far from the tree

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Another little ditty from Toronto which caught our eye is a residential fruit picking program called Not Far From The Tree. The aim of this  fruit-picking program is to prevent locally grown fruit from going to waste. Toward that end, it sends teams of volunteers to harvest the fruit on trees whose owners are not [...]
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a young urban farmer’s garden

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Young Urban Farmers is a new Toronto-based venture that lets consumers enjoy home-grown vegetables without having to do the gardening themselves. Young Urban Farmers specializes in edible vegetable gardening, with a focus on organics. The company’s Young Urban Farmer garden service can set up either raised garden beds or direct in-ground gardens, both complete with [...]
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reuse. reimagine. reclaim. recycle.

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A cute little garden idea from our friends over at Urban Gardens. .jwsharethis a {margin: 0 10px 0 0; text-shadow: 0 0 1px #000} Share this post:
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food map design

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The urban-rural gap is quickly shrinking and interest in local, organic food is continuously increasing. And today, it’s not unusually to find gardeners harvesting their own produce even in a concrete-filled, car-centric city like Los Angeles. Enter  Jon Wilson a former architect and now architect of the LA-based Food Map Design. You can check out [...]
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