Growing Resilience: Garden Planning for a Changing Climate
If we’ve had our hands in the dirt for more than a decade, many of us have experienced changes in our local climates and growing conditions. In coastal San Diego we’ve had less rain, episodic, intense heat waves and extra weeks of summer overcast.
But how to cope? How do we build climate resilience in our gardens?
Gardeners can respond with some basic practices that will allow our gardens to thrive even as the climate changes.
The challenges in the Pacific Northwest may be different, but techniques to grow resilience may be similar. A piece by Sky Nursery in the Seattle area offers practical steps for “home-grown garden resilience.” Here are the first few paragraphs of a five-minute read.
Whether we realize it or not, gardeners are already part of the solution when it comes to climate change.
In a fast-paced culture that pushes expansion at all costs, the humble act of caring for the soil might well be considered revolutionary. Regardless of the sizes and styles of our gardens, we gardeners are already working to rebuild soils, ecosystems, and human relationships. That’s work that our world needs.
With that in mind, we can plan for climate resilience in our individual gardens as well as our communities. Planning ahead will make the coming changes easier on us, and it might just help us become better gardeners. Even better, we can reap these benefits while also taking part in the larger changes needed to reverse climate change.
Let’s roll up our sleeves and grow some climate resilience! Read more at link below.
