Earth day falls on Friday, April 22nd. The theme for 2022 is “Invest in Our Planet”.
This is particularly appropriate with the current issues of global warming along with all of the oil spills, deforestation and other damage humans have been doing to our planet.
One of the things you can do is to plant more plants. Lots of people love to landscape with lots of open space between your plants. This isn’t a natural way for plants to grow. They love to lean against each other.
Keeping the ground covered helps it to retain more water so you don’t have to water them yourself as often.
Plants clean pollutants out of the air so the more plants there are, the faster we can try to recover from all of the pollutants we’ve created.
Stop using herbicides, pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Allow the natural good fungus to spread its white tendrils through the soil. There are alternatives. Use organic products from companies such as Gardens Alive! and Arbico.
Grow your own fruits and vegetables. There are even grains that you can grow. These will taste better because they will be so fresh. If enough people grow their own, it might reduce the amount of food needing to be transported in diesel-fueled trucks.
Let’s try to do a little something this year. All together it will make a difference!