Carbon Gardening
Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint While Gardening What is carbon gardening? Carbon gardening helps gardeners reduce the amount of carbon we release back into the atmosphere through our gardening practices. Carbon gardening starts with improving soil health and structure, garden design and incorporating the aspects of carbon gardening into the design. The design will include 80 percent natives to your region. Native plants to your region will form communities of connected and beneficial organisms. What’s so new about carbon gardening? It focuses on how we can reduce carbon emissions through our gardening practices. Some of the techniques we have already been doing, now there is more emphasis on how to reduce carbon emissions while gardening. There are several ways to carbon garden, growing your own food, don’t till the soil before you plant, using native plants in your region, buy locally sourced plants, mulch, and start using battery/cordless gardening equipment. By gr...