| Outdoor Water Features Require Top Landscaping Services, Says ...
Spring is landscaping time, and many homeowners are installing an outdoor water feature in their yards. A water feature adds to the project's value and enhances the landscaping to create an even more relaxed yard or garden area. Yardcrew.com was created with input from the professional landscaping industry to help homeowners find top local landscape professionals ready to help with all landscape services, from quotes to design to installation to maintenance. (PRWEB) April 20, 2007 -- Landscaping time is here, and outdoor water features are a popular feature of home landscaping projects this spring. Including a water feature increases the project's value and helps create a more relaxing outdoor space. Yardcrew.com, a top online yard care and services resource, can help homeowners find top local landscape professionals to design, build and maintain a yard or garden water feature.
Lets make gardening memories, mom!
Gardens are places of special meanings and memories. We need to allow our children to become involved in our gardens, through this comes the appreciation and caring that they will take with them into school and into their adult lives. Little pathways, fallen branches, benches, sandboxes, mud, swings in trees, water puddles, leaves, gates, fences, tree houses, fruit trees, strawberry patches and flowers are all elements that will be remembered when relating childhood memories. Some projects to get your children involved your garden: Set up a home compost system Whether its a compost bin or a traditional compost pile, any school aged child can participate in the process of composting using kitchen scraps and garden waste. Composting will show them how natures recycling process works from an orange rind to rich dark soil, (compost) which is perfect for plants.
A recipe for greening our village
As Earth Day approaches, it's worth recognizing that global warming and other environmental issues are on our national radar screen as never before. As we face a crossroads regarding our nation's role in the global environmental predicament, will Oak Park emerge as a bold leader that other communities look to for guidance? In that spirit, here are some thoughts on key ingredients that might push Oak Park to the front of the pack.
1) Develop criteria for ecologically effective development. If we use the natural world as a model, growth is good. Let's avoid philosophical positioning that pits growth against the environment, and instead develop criteria for ecologically effective development in Oak Park. Let's build on Oak Park's strong energy efficiency building codes and create a broader Oak Park standard for development that incorporates ecologically effective community design and green building principles.
Spring Weekend 2007 - Student Programming Board - Residence Hall ...
Come and celebrate the conclusion of another wonderful school year at St. John's with its annual Spring Fling. Enjoy riding a ferris wheel, flying swings and mechanical bull available to all students, professors and staff on the Great Lawn, Queens Campus. Spring Fling is St. John's traditional celebration marking the end of the spring semester. For students, the festival offers a brief respite from writing theses and studying for final exams. Date Friday, April 20, 2007 Time12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. LocationGreat Lawn, Queens Campus Others Everything is FREE, please bring your StormCard! Contact Campus Activities (718) 990-5400 Campus Concierge (718) 990-6631 or concierge@stjohns.edu .
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