http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 10. http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/how-to-play-safe-in-the-soil High Country News offers tips on how to garden safely if your home is built on at-risk former farmland. No publisher Rebecca Clarren legacy pesticides gardening Western communities contaminated soil former agricultural land home safety 2010-12-03T00:21:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17736 Jeannie Pomeroy’s lifelong love affair with dandelions blooms anew with every spring. No publisher Jeannie Pomeroy Jeannie Pomeroy gardening spring small town living dandelions weeds flowers 2010-02-05T09:47:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17660 This year, Ari LeVaux is breaking with his own tradition and planting his vegetable garden from starts rather than seeds. No publisher Ari LeVaux Communities Ari LeVaux gardening vegetable gardens planting seeds starts 2010-02-05T09:46:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16914 Bill Croke enjoys a rite of spring peculiar to small towns: Strolling the neighborhood alleys and snooping to see what everyone’s up to. No publisher Bill Croke Western culture Neighborhoods alleys Cody Wyoming Bill Croke walking backyards gardening spring junk garbage dumpsters small towns rural life pickup trucks dogs Western culture 2010-02-05T09:42:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16471 Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns – but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go No publisher Paul Larmer Agriculture Water Irrigation Communities in Transition Paul Larmer Bob Cook lawn mowers lawns Kentucky bluegrass hay irrigation water drought family life backyards rural life Michigan farms global warming desert land use landscaping Xeriscape native plants gardening 2010-02-05T09:34:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15927 Ethnobotanist Kat Anderson’s new book, Tending the Wild, examines the way California’s native peoples used – and shaped – the landscape’s natural resources before Europeans invasion No publisher Mark R. Stromberg Plants Indian Culture Kat Anderson Tending the Wild ethnobotany Indian tribes Native Americans crops gardening Indian foods Native culture 2010-02-05T08:31:50Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16479 The seven basic principles of Xeriscaping are explained No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Water Xeriscaping gardening plants lawns water use Ken Ball Denver Water Donald Godi Larry Keesen Gene Eyerly xeric gardens mulching landscaping soil lawn care 2011-11-28T23:06:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16470 It’s not easy to wean Westerners away from their lush, traditional, turfgrass lawns, but with drought an increasing fact of life, Xeriscape gardening is finally catching on No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Water Plants Deserts Lawns bluegrass turf Chris Martin horticulture Arizona State University Polytechnic campus Williams Air Force Base drought Phoenix rainfall gardening suburbia backyards Sonoran Desert cactus communities landscaping aesthetics Ted Steinb 2011-12-08T23:34:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16340 In Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Tucson author Brad Lancaster gives a hands-on inspirational guide for how to harvest the desert Southwest’s rare moisture No publisher Marge Pellegrino Deserts Brad Lancaster Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands Water-harvesting Earthworks water use desert climates drought Southwestern living precipitation water resources Zvishavane Water Resources Project Zimbabwe Africa farming gardening heating and 2011-11-11T23:24:04Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/367/17606 Lili Singer is in love with California’s native plants and wants to share that love with other people. No publisher Erika Schickel plants botany California native gardening Theodore Payne Foundation wildflowers Lili Singer 2010-08-11T22:50:28Z News Article