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| Urban sustainability, Health food store parking lot garden, Ever'man, Pensacola |
Even if all you have is just a tiny urban square foot garden, the act of planting veggies can offer so many benefits to you, your local community and the earth.
I always encourage people to plant natives, wildflowers and food in whatever free unpaved ground they can find.
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| Urban sustainability, US 90, Pensacola kale garden |
Small ten foot wide gardens adjacent parking lots and roads can provide significant benefit to local ecosystems. Tiny gardens offer communal and foraging habitat to both local and migratory critters and wildlife. These critters and wildlife play an important part in natural pest control measures. I've seen anoles consume bug after unwanted bug.
Tiny plantings are especially important in urban concrete jungle settings.
Small plantings contribute to cleaner stormwater by filtering rain and trapping trash, keeping waterways free of debris.
Compact gardens do their part in moderating urban heat island effect, sequestering carbon, taking in CO2 and filling our urban air with fresh oxygen.
As these two plantings have caught my eye, tiny urban landscapes create a sense of place and beauty.
Not to mention education, awareness, biodiversity, seed harvest, pollinators and climate change, the above reasons are just a few of the many for planting wildflowers, food plants and natives in urban infill areas.
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