AS WE AT GREEN APPLE LANDSCAPING consider and put into practice better choices for the environment, one of these areas of concern has to be the products we are installing and recommending. Which of them should we be designing with? How do we determine this? Are there tools out there that can help with these decisions?
WELL, IT’S BEEN A LOVELY May – December romance, blogging and creating content for Green Apple, and charting out an ecological business plan for the company. Now that winter is starting to take hold, we will be winding down operations for the coming months. Peter and Andrea will still be available for consultation, estimation, designing and planning. In fact, December, January, February, and March are great months to get a conversation going about what you would like your yard to look like next year. And of course, we are still very happy to design and build you an indoor living wall, anytime you like. But as soon as heavy snowfall blankets the city, our teams in the field will pack it in for the winter.
AT GREEN APPLE, WE FEEL so strongly about putting out a positive message of what we can all be doing to improve our relationship with nature, that not only have we blogged about it in articles… and not only have we documented in with photography… but we have even produced a full-length feature movie about it! It has been called the definitive documentary about natural building, and it was shot in eight countries on four continents, over a period of over four years. Publishing house PM Press has signed on as distributor and will be officially releasing the DVD in a couple of months. The name of the film is FIRST EARTH – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture.
WE’VE MADE NO SECRET of our desire to gradually transition Green Apple into a landscaping company that designs and builds permaculture gardens. It’s perfectly possible for your yard to be beautiful and healthy and productive, all at the same time. But it’s going to take some time and effort to educate our client base until there is a demand for these services! So as part of these efforts to make permaculture principles more widely known, we interviewed Jane Hayes of www.GardenJane.com, one of the city’s foremost experts on urban agriculture, and a dear friend, at her home in downtown Toronto. If you’ve heard the term permaculture being batted around and wondered what it might mean, but been unclear as to what it actually is, then have a listen as Jane eloquently explains.
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DURING THE MOST RECENT rain spell, work had to be called off for the remainder of the day, so John came in to the office and put some finishing touches onto the Green Apple Living Wall. John is a stone mason by trade, so he’s got the skills to pay the bills with the stone and cement mortar. He finished off the base of the basin with some brickwork, and now the living project is really complete. Great work, John. Way to go, team! It’s beautiful!
