Your Eco-friendly Yard: Sustainable Ideas to Save You Time, Money and the Earth

by Tom Girolamo

Your Eco-Friendly Yard shows you how to plan and create a personalized ecosystem in your own yard. You’ll discover 20 projects, such as selecting appropriate native plants for your region, practicing water efficiency and conservation, and proper placement of trees and vegetation, plus tips and expert advice for saving the earth, as well as time and money.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Wesley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guy isn't an English major, and no one did much in the way of carefully proof-reading it, but so what? It does a great job of making suggestions from a landscaper's point of view of things a person can do to make their yard one in which they will want to spend their lives. I found the rationale for what garden power tools to get and use, and what not to and why, compelling. Or his take on composting, which I agree with--no organic matter should leave my property, and who needs bins and the like when soil and weather do such a good job with little effort on my part? Great big and small picture thinking, and the case that it matters. Thanks, Tom.

[Charles H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Criminally underrated. A plethora of knowledge.

[ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you're completely new to the idea of eco-friendly yards, pick this up to flip through it. However, if you have a general knowledge of light living, just pass over it.