Today, Helping Nature Heal joins the 2012 Global Citizens’ Alliance for Seed Freedom. The organization Navdanya is founded by Dr. Vandana Shiva, who came to Nova Scotia earlier this year. Vandana Shiva fights for Earth Democracy– a combination of nature and human rights. Seed freedom is at the heart of her work because seed patenting… [Read More]
Tiered Garden Design
This tiered garden provides extra height for privacy. It also provides lots of good soil for the magnolia trees that will be planted there. Plus it gives us six surfaces to plant into!
Home Composting
Composting is a familiar concept to most people these days. Unfortunately, it is often associated with those smelly green bins we all dislike. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Composting, in its various forms, is an easy, safe, and creative way to manage yard waste and helps keep soil and nutrient cycles healthy…. [Read More]
What would it take?
What would it take to revitalize your relationship with nature? Get you outside, in tune with and alive to your surroundings? Do you have a place to sit and feel the wind on your face when the human-focused world is stressing you out? Or do you have a backyard that makes you tired just looking… [Read More]
Ongoing Training Ensures Consistent Results
On May 1, the HNH team spent the afternoon completing an assessment of Rosmarie’s garden. During this training session, staff discussed what they look for when caring for your garden and the strategies that they use to ensure the HNH philosophy is consistently used from landscape to landscape. One of the techniques that we focused… [Read More]