To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. .. Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
- Alfred Austin, 1835-1913
I have always been in love with the idea of a huge vegetable garden and all the tomatoes and beans and peppers […]

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A child who takes a lunch to school will produce about 70 pounds of garbage every year.
Seventy. Pounds. When I read that, I didn’t believe it and went right away to look it up somewhere else. Yup. The numbers come in at 45-90 pounds per student per year. That’s the weight of a 10 year […]

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The fuss about the consumption of bottled water is getting louder and even some who are not conscious of their personal environmental impact are starting to notice. In short: bottled water is excessively consumptive, polluting, expensive and wasteful. And with the dramatic increases in consumption of bottled water, the overall effects on the environment […]

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According to The Union of Concerned Scientists,
… the average lawn mower emits as much smog-forming pollution in one hour as eight new cars traveling at 55 miles per hour.
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Knowing this is what prompted us, two summers ago, to buy a reel mower. The one I chose was the Lee Valley […]

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I get a lot of questions about the name of this blog - Suburban Green Is People. I’ve got a page up talking about the name, but I’ll paste it all here too. And to answer some common questions: Yes, it’s a little long, but I like it; “suburban” is spelt just the way it […]

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