Gardening
Green Apple Landscaping’s goal of introducing more sustainable gardens led us to interview a good friend of ours who will explain the meaning of permaculture gardens to us all. 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 have been unclear as to what it actually is, then have a listen as Jane eloquently explains.
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IN THE 2009 SEASON, we successfully started a new ecological business venture, designing and building Living Roofs and Living Walls. In the 2010 season, we plan to introduce another new line of ecological services, growing gardens of edible and medicinal plants… even picking up the concept of small-scale animal husbandry. It’s simply not possible to completely revamp the entire product line in a single season. But we can give you a little preview of what we’re planning down the pipeline.
