Feel free: March 2014

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Best front garden landscaping ideas to create

backyard landscaping requires special care in designing and manufacturing to create. Every garden needs to look extra and unique. Your front garden landscape serve as a basis for further discussion around your neighborhood.

Here are the best front yard landscaping ideas that you need to prepare the edge of creativity and productivity.

• Check the path.

Carefully check your garden. Note the position ofHome, yard or the neighborhood. Plan and see the landscape design for this position. You can create two to three possibilities for the elimination rounds.
• create the ideal balance to go to your wishes.

You can create more than one, nor do you have in mind on a single fixed layout that offers all the advantages of focus and not waste your money. Should make your space more intelligently for Real Beauty. Go to the mapyou want to use in your project environment. Make sure these plants are easy to grow and maintain. This should not conflict with the existing weather conditions in your place.

• Be ready with your tools and materials.

You are here orchard use tools like a trowel, rake, shovel, bolus, cutter, knife and a wheelbarrow. You also need to purchase or add more plants for your design wanted orchard met. materials are added to the stones or rocks, or water fountains, lighting andother accessories may prefer intelligent habitancy creative.

• Work on the real plane.

Once the convention all the things you need, you can now start on your big project to fix the house. If you have a natural passion for art, you can start the first project for the beautification of adventure intelligent discrete levels. If you are a perfectionist, you can use a professional designer to help you along with him.

• Monitor the development and quarterly updates.

RentExpert does not mean you can go on vacation when he completed the landscape project in your home. Monitor the work regularly. Make sure to do the right thing based on the agreed framework and create ideals.

• Do not forget the value of the final touch.

Whether you work alone or with an expert, be sure to take the final touches very seriously. Painting the front wall and sides that allow you to optimize and also over the area to create a fabulous gardenEffects.

• Add a little light or even a fabulous smart wells.

Low voltage lighting, and fountain or a loved water systems are required to create the landscape in your yard to enhance its charm and simple elegance even more. This set will be added fabulous for both day and night taste intelligent.

landscaping can be expensive, some habitancy but the results are very rewarding. It helps you get closer to nature. You can do these things by himself or byHelp of experts. landscaping not all the time to be expensive to attract the human eye. There are so many options to change the economic field.

Mary Rose Malinao loves the exchange of new and current trends in the nature and the online world. To create greater awareness and successful home visits to patients fix front yard landscape ideas.

Friday, March 7, 2014

Okra on Avenue X An Edible School Garden Grows in Brooklyn

I recently discovered an amazing showpiece garden program at PS 216 in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn. An asphalt lot in the fall of 2010, the space has been magically transformed into a thriving educational garden of vegetables, fruits, herbs, perennials and a fantastic composting system. Bees were happily pollinating everywhere.

On the day of my visit a second grade class was on a mission to discover a patch of thriving okra. Rising over their heads the students were excited and amazed to see how complex this vegetable could actually be. Creamy white flowers centered with splashes of maroon drew the children closer to observe and appreciate the plants physical characteristics. This hands-on approach to learning about the benefits of gardening has become a daily experience for both students and educators.

While a school classroom is now devoted to cooking classes and healthy eating, an adjacent modern culinary arts classroom/building will be completed in the next few months. The garden and new classroom are exciting new teaching models for local, healthy food. I cant think of a better way to counter-act bad eating habits and the escalating obesity epidemic.

The following was lifted from Edible Schoolyard NYC

Established in 2010, Edible Schoolyard NYC is a nonprofit organization committed to bringing Alice Waters’ vision to New York City public schools as an effective solution to our childhood obesity crisis.

Over three million New Yorkers citywide live in communities where access to fresh fruits and vegetables is tragically limited. Low-income families who lack the time and resources to eat healthier must unfairly settle for cheap, processed food options that ultimately lead to battles with obesity, especially amongst our children.

Today nearly 50% of NYC’s public elementary school students are obese or overweight. They’re part of the first generation of children forecast to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. A childhood plagued by obesity could result in an adulthood hampered by heart disease, cancer, diabetes or high blood pressure.

When Alice Waters, acclaimed restaurateur and organic food pioneer, created the first Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California in 1995, she knew the best way to teach children the connections between food, health and the environment was by integrating an edible education program into our schools’ everyday curriculum.

As the first official Edible Schoolyard affiliate in the Northeast, Edible Schoolyard NYC partners with public schools in low-income areas to build, maintain and staff garden and kitchen classrooms—all right on the school premises. We equip students with the hands-on knowledge, skills and environment needed to reverse the obesity trend and teach kids organic, healthy eating habits they can enjoy and share for an entire lifetime.

“Every child needs to learn how to cook, needs to learn how to cultivate a garden, plant seeds, learn about sustainability, be taken to a garden, and be able to put hands in the Earth.”
— Alice Waters, Founder of the Edible Schoolyard program

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photo by Allan B.

photo by Allan B.