The Urban Permaculture Farm Magazine
For 
The Garden Girl
Happy 2011!
I hope your new year is going well so far. There’s nothing to do in the garden this time of year, but it’s a busy planning time for gardeners. I’m still working out my plan, but it’s going to include a lot of flowers, heirloom vegetables and historic plants. I plan on working on my front yard this year and incorporating lots of native plants and experimenting more with topiary hedges. I can’t wait to dig in.
This double issue of Urban Sustainable Living Magazine includes articles by Shawna Coronado that details how she designed her front yard. You’ll also read about how to lift up your work place this winter with indoor plants. Not only will it bring up morale in the office, but it will also purify the air! There’s even a story for apartment dwellers that have a balcony and want start a container garden. I also hope you enjoy the Windflower Photo Essay by Jonas Andreasson that includes information on the perennial, Anemone.
To start off the new year we have a contest where you can win my newest dvd Square Foot Gardening made in collaboration with Mel Bartholomew, the inventor of Square Foot Gardening. For those of you who can’t wait to see if you’ve won, the 60min dvd is also available for sale for $24.99 thru Createspace. https://www.createspace.com/298508 It’s a great companion to Mel’s best selling book The All New Square Foot GardeningI hope you enjoy the dvd.
Lastly, read about washing away the winter blues by starting an herb garden indoors.
Don’t forget to visit http://www.GardenGirlTV.com. It’s being updated weekly to include almost 100 free how to garden videos.
From the Sustainable Home Front,
Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl
DVD Giveaway Contest
Win a Copy of of the 60 minute DVD
Square Foot Gardening with Patti Moreno and a guest appearance by Mel Bartholomew,
Inventor of Square Foot Gardening
To Enter:
Forward this email to at least 5 people and cc that email to info [at] gardengirltv [dot] com.
Contest Rules:
- Enter as many times you want.
- Winners will be chosen at random and announced in the March issue.
- You must be a current subscriber to Urban Sustainable Living Magazine. Subscribe Here
- Contest ends February 28, 2011
A Sustainable Veggie Garden Design In My Front Lawn
When I first began the journey of removing the grass from my front lawn and installing 5,000 pounds of rotted buffalo manure in 2009, I had no idea where it would lead. In the first year I learned a lot of hard lessons and soon realized that a vegetable garden requires more water than all the rest of my garden combined. Building a sustainable vegetable garden became a priority more than ever.
4 Things You Need to Know Before Gardening on Your Balcony
Gardening on your balcony is a great way to bring a little nature to your apartment lifestyle. There are several factors that a person should consider before they begin the adventure of gardening on their balcony.
Nordic Flowers
Anemone ~ Anemone (pro-nounced / •n•m•ni• /) is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Natives of the Northern and Southern temperate zones, they are closely related to the Pulsatilla and Hepatica families. Some botanists include both of these genera within that of Anemone. The word itself traces back to the Greek, and anemone means “daughter of the wind”, from anemos “wind” and the feminine suffix “-one”.
Plants for the Office
Do you want an easy way to boost morale in the office? It can be as simple as adding indoor plants. There is so much more to office plants than just brightening up a room or giving it color. Plants for the office can bring real health benefits to your body. Try adding a plant in your office and it can lower blood pressure and reduce stress. When indoor plants are present, you will see less complaining of headaches, colds and heart or circulation symptoms. Many companies have noticed after adding greenery to the office that it enhanced creativity and productivity in their employees.
How to Fight the Winter Blues by Growing an Inside Herb Garden
Most people think about gardens and planting only in the spring time, and again as harvest time comes. This is certainly true, but there is no reason you cannot plant and grow crops all year around, and one way to do this is by growing an inside herb garden during the winter. What do you need to have a nice inside herb garden, just a window that gets some southern exposure, and even that's not necessary.
Lets say you do have a window with southern exposure, you need something to grow your herbs in, and a place to set them.
Around The Web
Alternative Energy - Biofuel from Algae
- Living Green Channel
Clean Solar Power Alternative Energy
- EZ Gas Savers
Copyright © 2008-2010 Urban Sustainable living. All rights reserved.
An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets.
Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. For humans it is the potential for long-term maintenance of wellbeing, which in turn depends on the wellbeing of the natural world and the responsible use of natural resources.