Thomas Walker

Hi.  I’m hoping some of you might have suggestions for how to best handle my large rock landscape.  Hopefully the picture of it posts. We live in the high desert of western Nevada.  Lots of rabbitbrush, sage and other weeds blowing in regularly and popping up in this area to the front and side of our house.  Since moving in here a few years ago, we’ve tried a few approaches, settling on spraying with pre-emergent herbicide in the spring. It’s far too big an area to hand weed or to burn. Other than just letting Mother Nature reclaim this area, are there any environmentally friendly alternatives?  

You all are inspiring me. We recycle, we compost and have chickens but still generate a disgustingly large amount of refuse.  We set out a 32 gal can each week and it’s probably 2/3 full on average. I’m resolved to cut that number substantially, hopefully by half this calendar year.   I’ll have to pay close attention to what is filling up that can. I know we buy way too much packaged food. It’d be great to buy more in bulk and/or go to a refill store but we live in a small town and to my knowledge don’t have such a store. We also have two big dogs so a few plastic grocery bags of poop are in the bin each week.  I will try to do better!