How to Keep Your Lawn Happy and Environmentally Friendly

I’ll admit that I love the smell of freshly cut lawns. But it’s the chemical fertilizers, mower noise, weed battles, and wasteful water consumption that I willingly trade in for more ecologically sustainable pastures. Here are garden design ideas to help you end the suburban turf romance and create a new environmentally friendly field of […]

by Kier Holmes

New Tools, Tricks and Tips for Your Home Garden

Spring has sprung in Chicagoland. (Or so they say, despite super chilly mornings and breezy afternoons, too). And although our winter outerwear is still very much within arm’s reach, it’s the month to get out back (or front) and begin weeding, planting, soiling and tooling around the plot (or plethora) of land you love to […]

by Robin Immerman Gruen