How Green Is My Garden?

In lieu of "high yield" or "productivity" comes the book High-Impact, Low-Carbon Gardening by Alice Bowe (Timber Press, 2011) filled with talk of sustainable strategies. Of course I can get behind that. Although one major discredit is that the book lacks discussion on distribution of resources. No chapter on the sustainable obcurement of resources (although there is a section titled "choosing plants from sustainable sources"). It's a problem because each garden is much larger than the garden itself. I suppose if I were to quiz the author on this point she'd say, that's a whole other book, not my project. But how do you talk sustainability without talking larger scales?

Regardless the book is beneficial to encourage me thinking about how I can make this little North Beach garden (and the BCC kids garden) as sustainable as possible. Plants to capture carbon emissions, a bike cart to transport plant starts, a drip irrigation system made out of reused materials. I still haven't been to the Re-Store, so I guess I have some homework to do. I'VE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE A BIKE CART FOR SO LONG WHY HAVEN'T I DONE IT YET. Baby on the way. (Make sure to check out the links on each of these projects, they are awesome)