Most everyone wants to learn how to build healthy soil, since healthy soils support anything that grows, and, over the long term, require less inputs and maintenance. Learning techniques to compost yard waste completes the loop. Several of us are terracing slopes. Not the expensive gabion or timber wall, but small stepwise, do it yourself projects. This summer we will be checking on one other's progress toward naturalization, as well as making ourselves available to friends and neighbours.
Interest seems to be growing.
Doing is key. Each small success, over time, will add up, and yield more attractive, sustainable yard spaces. And by allowing storm water to infiltrate into the ground instead of running into the sewer, naturalization will reduce erosion and siltation into the Sackville Rivers. If you would like to contribute to this newsletter, or if you have any comments, just call the SRA office and let us know. There is still so much to photograph as we ease into one of the best times of the year to find subjects for photographs and the most hospitable time of the year to get outside to photograph them.