Green Gardening | What do you want to do?

Leaf Blowers pollute more than a Ford pick up truck!
Edmunds ran a scientific test comparing the emissions of a 2 and 4 stroke leaf blower to a Ford pickup and a Fiat 500. It wasn't even close: the leaf blowers created between 14 and 300 times the emissions from carbon monoxide (CO) and non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC).  Check out the video of the test at an auto research center here.    Maybe an old fashioned rake is a better option after all.

Places to Buy Green Gardening Supplies

• Places to buy gardening supplies in DC

• Garden District
  1740 14th Street NW, Washington DC
  info@gardendistrict.com, 202.797.9005

Finding a Place to Garden

• Backyard sharing

• DC Community Gardens
  Lists community gardens in metro area
  

• City Farm DC
  (CFDC) is a not-for-profit, urban gardening collective in the District of Columbia (DC). CFDC connects private landowners with outdoor growing space ("Growers") to willing gardening partners ("Gardeners")

Helpful and Entertaining Resources for Gardeners

• Organic gardening advice for DC
  Organic Authority.com/organic-gardening:
  

• DC Urban Gardeners
  A network of hundreds of people working to make greening and growing projects happen, and teaching DC-area residents to grow plants - both edible and non-edible.
  

• DC's Field to Fork Network
  Info about the dozens of organizations working in Washington, DC to foster regional change in how we approach food production. 
  

• Garden Rants

• RootingDC,
  Is an annual gathering of community gardeners in DC to exchange resources, success stories, basic gardening information, and more.

• DC Schoolyard Greening
  This organization works to increase and improve schoolyard green spaces to promote ecological literacy and environmental stewardship among students, teachers, parents and the surrounding community.

• Discussion list and blog:
  The Washington DC area gardeners can now talk directly to each other on the Washington Gardener on line discussion list. Ask burning questions. Discuss best plant sources. Network and trade with local folks., just send an email to:WashingtonGardener-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

• Neighborhood Farm Initiative
  Its mission is to improve unused or under-utilized public green space in Washington, D.C., preserving and protecting its use as open, undeveloped land. Provide a self-sustaining and more reliable educational resource for gardening and small scale organic food production for DC-area residents

• Future Harvest-CASA
  A network of farmers, agricultural professionals, landowners and consumers living and working in the Chesapeake region. Future Harvest-CASA promotes profitable, environmentally sound and socially acceptable food and farming systems that work to sustain communities.
  

• Ecolocity Food and Farming Group
  The focus of this group is sustainable agriculture, urban farming, nutrition, cuisine, slow food and locavory. We'll explore education, technology, production, distribution and marketing. Importantly, we'll find ways to make changes on our own.
  

• City Blossoms
  Works to create urban gardening experiences for children and communities, including offering workshops..
  
  

List of Companies Providing Green Gardening Services

• My Organic Garden

• Lawn-Wright

• Richard Landscaping

• SavaTree Lawn Care

Trucks are better than leaf blowers