Curious about composting or organic food growing methods? We’ve got factsheets to cover all of your bases!
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#15 Pollinator Stewardship
Pollinator Stewardship ensures the insects and animals that pollinate much of the produce that we consume are supported.
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#16 Rainwater Harvesting
Sustainable rainwater collection and storage for use in the home and garden helps urban watersheds mimic the function of natural systems.
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#17 Understanding Compostable Plastics
Learn the different between certified compostable products and how to dispose of them accordingly.
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#18 Vermin Resistance
A roadmap to preventing rodents from entering your compost pile.
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#19 Bioremediation for Urban Gardeners
This Healing City Soils Factsheet offers ways that home-scale food gardeners, small urban farmers and community gardeners can draw on their soil and plant knowledge and skills to remediate soils that are contaminated with low to moderate soil concentrations of heavy metals.
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#20 Sub-irrigated Bucket Planters
This factsheet describes how to make a sub-irrigated planter for growing in, out of two stacked buckets.
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#21 Zero Waste Living
Learn ways to integrate zero waste living into your kitchen, bathroom, office space, and more!
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#22 Container Gardening
This factsheet is a primer on getting you started growing healthy, abundant food and flowers in containers, paying special attention to types and sizes of pots, good quality soil, and choosing the right varieties of seed/plants to grow in containers.
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#23 Gardening for Renters
This factsheet addresses a few of the barriers renters face to growing food so more tenants can build food security and support urban ecology.