Earth Friendly Homeowner

Did you know that by adding 4” of mulch over 1000 square foot of soil will help your garden hold onto an additional 10,000 gallons of water. If you don’t know how mulch feeds the soil microbes, and why that is important, check out our video. You can get mulch in San Diego from El Corazon/Agriservice, […]

Welcome to the Earth Friendly Homeowner Holiday Gift Guide We have gathered 40+ gift ideas for the gardener, the DIY home improvement eco-warrior and the reader in your life. Tools to make gardening easier, heirloom vegetable seeds, the perfect gardening hat and gardening shoes. The ‘do it yourself’ eco-home improvement fan will love the reusable […]

Want to treat yourself or a gardener in your life to some new garden tools? Here are our tried and tested tools, books, watering tools and gift ideas. Full disclosure: we do earn a small amount of money from Amazon if you choose to buy these tools. This helps us cover the costs of our […]

And how we maintain hope in spite of regular reports of a climate out of control. Both Sheri and I came to soil late in our careers. I had been landscaping professionally for 10 years and Sheri started to grow food for her family’s health. We both came across the work of Dr. Elaine Ingham and […]

Find out what rebate and incentive programs there are available in San Diego County. September 2016 When talking landscape rebates, the first thought is turf removal rebates. Up until mid 2015, these were fairly widely available but then they all dried up. While the governor announced funding for more rebates, this funding was directed at […]

Our interview this week is with Paul Herzog, Surfrider’s National Coordinator for the Ocean Friendly Garden program. In this discussion we find out: The #1 source of ocean pollution Why, even if you don’t live at the beach, you should be applying CPR to your landscape What are the typical components of an Ocean Friendly […]

The first step in any landscape project is to find out how big the area is that you are working with. When you are trying to do this solo, often times fighting with a long tape measure is not ideal. In this video I will show you how to use Google Maps to not only […]

Here is our list of favorite tools and supplies for building healthy soil using the sheet mulching method. Basic gardening tools are a must: A flat shovel will help with turf removal A Garden Fork will help with breaking up the soil just a little Extras you will need for this project Landscaping flags will help you identify where the irrigation […]

Here is a collection of books, tools and gadgets we use in our homes to help us be as earth friendly as possible. Books We love Brad Lancaster’s books on Rainwater Harvesting volume 1 and volume 2. Brad lives in Tucson, Arizona where their annual rainfall is a scant 11 inches and he has managed to create […]