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The conscientious gardener [electronic resource] : cultivating a garden ethic / Sarah Hayden Reichard ; foreword by Peter Raven.

by Reichard, Sarah H.

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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Sustainable horticulture.

Native plant gardening.

Pests -- Integrated control.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=C79DABA1-8267-4449-94CE-834C04BA63B9 This title is available online; click here to access

9780520947283 (electronic bk.)

0520947282 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (ix, 254 p.) : ill.

The skin of the earth -- Water, our most precious resource -- Should you go native? -- Aliens among us -- The wild kingdom -- Preventing and managing pests -- Confronting climate change -- Recycle, reduce, reuse, repurpose.

In his influential A Sand County Almanac, published at the beginning of the environmental movement in 1949, Aldo Leopold proposed a new ecological ethic to guide our stewardship of the planet. In this inspiring book, Sarah Hayden Reichard tells how we can bring Leopold's far-reaching vision to our gardens to make them more sustainable, lively, and healthy places. Today, gardening practices too often damage the environment: we deplete resources in our own soil while mining for soil amendments in far away places, or use water and pesticides in ways that can pollute lakes and rivers. Drawing from

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