Your yard can yield plenty of opportunities to help reduce your ecological footprint.

The climate crisis is a big challenge that needs big, systemic solutions. But that doesn’t mean that smaller approaches aren’t meaningful too – including those that are literally in your own backyard.

“Individual actions are really part of community action,” says Sarah Lazarovic, a climate communications specialist in Toronto who publishes the “undepressing climate newsletter” More Vibrant Planet . “And community action is more than just yourself, by its very nature.”

Weeds in a bouquet? Why not?

Whether you’re a devoted vegetable grower, a diehard lawn lover or an ornamental gardener who keeps aesthetics top of mind (or perhaps all three), your yard has plenty of potential as a means of reducing yo

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