Doing an environmental audit
Jan 05, 2021
4 minutes
I HAVE a pragmatic view about gardening in an environmentally friendly way. By gardening we control the natural environment, altering it to suit our needs and whims, and in doing so we damage it because we don’t let it do what nature intends. That said, I love plants, wildlife and landscape in all their diversity and have no conscious wish to harm them. I only use chemicals in the garden where I feel I can’t protect or feed plants without them; my wife, Kathy, and I grow a wide range of plants and enjoy the insects that are attracted by them; we feed the birds; and I don’t swat wasps.
However, I became aware that my efforts are uncoordinated, sporadic, even careless and a
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