What benefits does your drought-tolerant garden provide?

A California Natives garden can be a beautiful haven for bees, pollinators, butterflies, beneficial insects, birds, and urban wildlife.

An edible garden can feed you and your family, perhaps with extra to share with your neighbors and the food pantry too. A drought-tolerant edible garden boosts the nutrition in your food, provides you with exercise and fresh air, helps reduce your food miles, and can sequester carbon (which helps to reduce global warming).

Just remember:

Gravel + suck-ulents do not equal sustainability.

• low water food plants for Southern California
• 5 reasons that fake grass is so dead
• more about drought-tolerant sustainable gardens (pdf on Scribd)
• Erik Knutzen’s comments on “gravel moonscapes” and cultural aesthetics
• The Secrets of Soil Building ebook