Resources for Eco Designs

Doing some research for a wetland/woodland design and I found these great websites with fun designs for waterways, stormwater management, and creative reuse of materials:

http://ecologiadesign.com/author/ecologiadesign/page/2/

http://www.metrocouncil.org/environment/Water/BMP/manual.htm

Fabulous Fashion: Handmade

Click on each image to see the shop of each designer:

Happy Garden Cards to Die For

I found a set of these cards in a high school classroom I was visiting and had to have them, so I searched Etsy, only finding partial sets until I spotted this one at Bright Wall Studios.  These awesome retro cards has plants and tips on growing them but the surprise is all of the gardening advice from canning, pickling, making terrariums, designing medicinal herb beds and Ready Made-style building projects from outdoor tables, benches, window boxes and kids garden projects. The indoor gardens section is a trip back in time to when folks filled their houses with plants and had stands with grow lights and incorporated plants into their interior designs. It's amazing how relevant the whole set is and how much more plant saturated people's lives were back in the day. I'm in OCD Garden heaven.

Comparing Composters for the Garden

I stopped by the garden today to drop off some food scraps to compost and I started looking around at all of the composters in our community garden. Because of the blanket of snow, it's easy to spot the different designs and I thought it would be interesting to hear from the gardeners what they think of the type they selected.

The Earth Machine was given away for free to residents who attended a compost workshop with the city. Not sure if it is still going on. Many of the garden members have these.

Philly Photo Cards on Apartment Therapy.com

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/dc/etsy-find-philly-photographs-084317

Wow, I'm so psyched to be featured on apartmenttherapy.com! I really like this site, they have the coolest spaces to look at and get ideas from and they feature stuff you will want to have, or at least post pictures up of.