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Gardening Nude is an inspirational blog built by Shawna Coronado to encourage greening and community improvement. It's ideas and lessons are simple; improving health, lifestyle greening, and building community will enable readers to live well and hap
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Feeding the Hungry A Homemade Video On How You and Your Children Can Make A Difference For A Food Bank!
According to AmpleHarvest.org,”an estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States.” Be shocked – and then make a difference for your community by stopping the waste. Regular...
A Salute To Fermilab Garden Club Businesses CAN Make A Difference For Food Pantrys and the Feeding of Americas Hungry
Family. Love. Friendship. These things define us, connecting us to the surrounding world and making our lives both enriched and worth living. When I met the Fermilab Garden Club this season, I imagined I would simply see gardens. Instead, I......
Greening in Business - Ball Horticulture Teaching Employees How To Tend To Nature and Tend To Their Health With A Community Garden
Think about this – across the globe many businesses, churches, synagogues, mosques, and community centers are surround by a sea of an utterly useless plant – grass! What positive effect does acres of grass have for an organization? You cannot......
Hydrangea Love An Entertaining Idea On The Cheap and Green
I might not be Martha Stewart – spending less than $10 for a total entertaining evening in the garden – but perhaps that’s the point. With a very difficult economy on the horizon, it’s time we stopped spending extreme amounts......
Ladybird Johnsons Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas Green and Beautiful!
What do you do when you are in Texas, it’s 110 degrees outside and you want to see something green and get closer to nature? Go to Ladybird Johnson’s Wildflower Center just outside Austin. Above you see Tom Myer, President......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Compost 101 How To Compost
Food scraps and yard clippings make up one quarter of the United States’ solid waste piling up in landfills. The book, True Green, says, “When this organic matter ends up in landfills and decomposes without air, it produces methane, a......
Plant A Row For the Hungry and Feed America Healthy Food You Can Make A Difference!
This year I wanted to truly make a difference for my community with the garden and encourage people to grow their own vegetables. Locally grown food is the freshest, plus growing your veggies organically ensures your family has a healthier......
Get Your Children Out In Nature Study Cabbage Caterpillars In The Garden
We discovered cabbage worms in our broccoli. Ick. Gross. Blech. Nasty. Then my eight year old and I discovered that the Cabbage Worm Butterfly (known as the “Cabbage White”) is what the Cabbage Worm Caterpillar develops into. What a fantastic......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Use a Rain Barrel to Save Money and Water Plus Help Our Stormwater Systems!
One of the most fantastic ways to practice conservation, save money, AND water is to use a rain barrel! Clean Air Gardening sells some of the best and easiest to install. Above you see an instructional video showing the basics......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Save Landscape Waste From the Landfill
Today I am taking you with me on a field trip to help save some landscaping and gardening materials. Why, you ask? Because this is an easy way to make a difference and I wanted to show you how you......
Smile In The Garden Get Out In Nature and Enjoy June!
This week my garden has produced the most beautiful flowers of June. Stepping outside I can breathe in fresh air, see humming birds busily drinking nectar, and smile simply for the joy of seeing the outer world in all it’s......
Six Tips to Save Money and Conserve Water
Saving money is especially important in these difficult economic times. Below is a short video demonstrating six easy and simple tips to conserve water – and money - at home. Every year Americans waste hundreds of gallons of water both......
The Health Benefits of Being in Nature How a Garden Saved My Life
Joe Lamp’l posted the below “guest post” which I wrote on his Compost Confidential blog site a while back. It received such a positive response, that I wanted to post it here also to let the world know that being......
Monday Whazzup A View of My Spring Garden Hosta Smiles
This glorious Hosta offered a smile as spring sunshine made it’s leaves glow over the weekend. I love you nature! Shawna Coronado says Get Healthy! Get Green! Get Community! www.thecasualgardener.com, The Green Blog - www.gardeningnude.com, or The ...
How To Plant A GREEN and Water Conserving Flowerpot or Container Garden
Every year millions of people plant flowerpots. Although beautiful, one problem with flowerpots is that you sometimes have to water the pots every day, particularly during the hot summer months. My secret for potting plants insures you do not have......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Native Plants Conserve Water
According to Jim Kleinwachter, a good friend who runs the “Conservation @ Home” program through The Conservation Foundation, native plants are the only way to go. Judging by the gorgeous photos seen here of native Bluebells and other flowers in.....
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Composting Kit And A Way To Save Kitchen Scraps From The Landfill
One of the greenest things you can do is save anything you can from a landfill. Food scraps are particularly difficult for landfills to deal with because when the scraps “melt” into mush they turn into a toxic bacterial soup......
Monday Whazzup 2009 Chicago Flower Garden Show is More Sustainable!
Saturday I got lucky and nude. Well… metaphorically. As a member of the Garden Writers Association, I was allowed to go to the 2009 Chicago Flower & Garden Show as a preview reporter. This was a wonderful experience as I......
Garlic Mustard A Sustainability Disaster in Our Environment By Guest Writer Susan Harris
Today’s blog focuses on a serious disaster happening across the United States and Canada – the devastation of our forest floors by a plant known as “Garlic Mustard.” It is horribly invasive. Being green means stewardship – to the land......
Gardening Nude Naked Winner of the Week: Naomi Sachs, Nature and Garden Healing Therapy Expert
On Friday's, Gardening Nude The Blog features a special person for the day. This person is the "Naked Winner of the Week." Every person featured in this category is a winner for doing great things for the community and trying......
Monday Whazzup - Make a Difference in Nature and In The Life Of A Child
This photo is a picture of my daughter in front of the twelve foot sunflowers we grew in the back garden this year. Life is what we make it. What if I told you that every day you could make......
Trash In the Environment - Do You Care For Your Community - Or Is It Left To One Lonely Klutz?
'Tis the season to close up the garden - it is ready for the long winter nap - so today I had an adventure. I gather bulbs, gloves, shovel, bucket, and a rake together, balance them delicately in my arms......
Smiles In The Garden - Why I Have No Ass And The World is Right
When I am in the garden during any season I feel fantastic. Being out in nature, breathing the air, living in the sunshine; these things bring a special joy to my heart. Experiencing the challenge and inspiration gardening motivated me......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Darth Vader is In My Garden!
This green tip is an updated excerpt from Shawna's newspaper column on greening and gardening; The Casual Gardener (www.thecasualgardener.com). Allergies!! I got’em! Particularly to molds. Fall is a season which brings misery to me, even with my po...
