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Ask the Experts: Just How Bad are Conventional Lawn Maintenance Practices?
Read more: Ask the Experts: Just How Bad are Conventional Lawn Maintenance Practices?We’ve all seen the artificially “perfect” lawn, the pesticide signs, volcanoes of mulch, the shrubs shorn so tightly nothing moves in the wind. This quest for order and control comes at high cost to our health and the health of the planet. “Conventional landscaping is a system of dependence on noise and poison that’s highly…
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Free Living Lands Eco Site Visits on Long Island’s East End
Read more: Free Living Lands Eco Site Visits on Long Island’s East EndPerfect Earth is offering a free Living Lands eco site visits for residents of the South Fork of Long Island. Sign up today!
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Moments of PRFCT Ecological Joy
Read more: Moments of PRFCT Ecological JoyThere are so many benefits to ecological gardening—to the birds, bees, bunnies, butterflies—and, yes, even to us gardeners. The joy we feel when we watch the first Bobolink of the season swoop to catch an insect in a grassy meadow or spot a spring azure butterfly fluttering from bloom to bloom tune us into the…
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Grounded Conversations with Krista Tippett and Michael Pollan
Read more: Grounded Conversations with Krista Tippett and Michael PollanOn April 13, 2026, Perfect Earth Projected presented a sold-out Grounded Conversations with On Being’s Krista Tippett and author Michael Pollan in the Living Room at W New York – Union Square. Listen to the conversation here . . .
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For the Birds: Ask the Expert with John Fitzpatrick
Read more: For the Birds: Ask the Expert with John FitzpatrickIt’s happening! With a burst of warm weather all the flowering trees seemed to have bloomed at once here in the Northeast, which happened to coincide with the arrival of spring bird migration. This fledgling birder couldn’t be happier.
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The Plastic Pot Conundrum
Read more: The Plastic Pot Conundrum“I have a nightmare where I’m in the afterlife dragging around every plastic pot I ever sold—for eternity,” says Flora Grubb, the co-owner of Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco and Los Angeles. “Plastic pots are a really troubling reality of our industry.” According to the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), 95% to 98%…
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Ask the Experts: How to Tap Into Your ‘Mind of Winter’
Read more: Ask the Experts: How to Tap Into Your ‘Mind of Winter’“One must have a mind of winter,” wrote Wallace Stevens in “The Snowman” and after blizzards and record-breaking frigid temperatures in the Northeast this past month, it’s been hard to think of anything else. But for many gardeners, winter is often the neglected season—the one spent mostly indoors, flipping through seed catalogs, dreaming of spring.…
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Making Bank: The Importance of Saving Native Seeds
Read more: Making Bank: The Importance of Saving Native SeedsMost ecological gardeners want to do what they can to save the earth. Dozens of groups across the country are doing so—quite literally—filling freezers full of native plant seeds. These critical repositories hold the future of our botanical past. With 40 percent of the plant species in the world under threat and at risk of…