Horticulture

5 Steps to a CLIMATE-FRIENDLY Garden

When people think of solutions to climate change, solar panels, electric vehicles and shuttered coal plants are often the images that come to mind. But these all have to do with reducing emissions. The other side of the climate-change equation involves removing the greenhouse gases that are already in the atmosphere—what is commonly called carbon sequestration. This is where your garden comes in.

Many folks know that forests help to sequester carbon, but it’s hard to imagine that a mere few trees in an urban yard will do much good. Yet if you add up all the trees in all the yards on

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