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Carbon Gardening: A Podcast at Growing Greener

By Adrian Ayres Fisher, originally published by Growing Greener Podcast

June 30, 2020

Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash.

Adrian Ayres Fisher, Sustainability Coordinator for Triton College in River Grove, Illinois explains how an easy change in gardening practice can remove carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere and help mitigate global warming.

 

 

Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash.

Adiran Ayres Fisher

Adrian Ayres Fisher

Adrian Ayres Fisher serves as a volunteer steward of a small forest preserve on the banks of the Des Plaines River in Illinois. As programs co-chair of West Cook Wild Ones, she educates about and promotes native-plant gardening and biodiversity. She writes and speaks on a range of nature-related topics from a Midwestern point of view. Her home is in an inner-ring suburb of Chicago and she blogs at Ecological Gardening.

Tags: Building resilient food and farming systems, carbon gardening

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