We have the capacity to begin now, right where we are.
With only a simple container garden or the start of a conversion of a lawn to food, we can begin to rejoin the ecosystem.
Our awareness of the need to protect bees, water conservation, soil improvement can all be done right here and now on a small, individual basis.
We can plant beautiful pollen-filled plants which are free from pesticides in our yards.
We can capture water in our shower in a bucket and use it for one toilet flush.
We can create a raised garden bed using enriched soil and compost.
Once we take those first little steps, and they become habits, we can take more little steps.
Our conscious practice will connect us with more valuable ways to live on our only planet.
Making your yard beautiful will create beneficial habitat for pollinators.
It will encourage others to cut down on how much lawn they have to mow.
Mowing less and less will remove a significant amount of air pollution.
In David Jacke’s and Eric Toesmeier’s books Edible Forest Gardens, we read that a collection of individual yards can be converted in any neighborhood to create habitat and food and to put ourselves back into the ecosystem.
We can all start right here and now.
© 2017 Kathryn Hardage
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