For centuries nature has provided for itself through the cycle of life: Birth, life, procreation, death, decomposition (nutrients to sustain the cycle), repeat. There are both constructive and destructive forces continually competing for dominance and thereby maintaining balance and order in the world. Without this balance, natures center of gravity becomes tilted and the natural order turns to disorder. We end up with unnatural phenomena such as nutritionaly defunct soils, toxic water tables, global warming and weakened immunity systems to name a few. There are numerous means by which modern man facilitates this imbalance and disorder but my primary concern here will be home gardening and landscaping techniques.
We have recently, over the past few decades, become aware of the undeniable fact that our modern methods of fertilization and pest control have been slowly destroying our lands, water supplies and even our ozone. There is now an ever increasing, worldwide awareness about the situation. People are being educated and changes are being made but progress is slow and the earths finite resources are still being depleted and destroyed. The question is: what can I do on a personal level to be part of the solution and not part of the problem?
