BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO STEWARDSHIP GARDENING: A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO BACKYARD CONSERVATION
2 – WHY SHOULD WE CARE?
The United States has a long history of defending and celebrating individual freedoms including but not limited to the rights of the property owner over management of his land. These ideals and sentiment are reflected in the methods the Founding Four used to revolutionize gardening for Americans, which I mentioned in the previous article. I imagine many readers may be wondering, “Why Should I Care?” If you are thinking this, I invite you to contemplate the statistic from the Living Planet Index: over 50 years vertebrate populations (animals) declined by 73%.