Eco-yardsTM is an eco-friendly landscaping company that offers landscape design, installation, and an aerated compost tea spray. The company specializes in low-maintenance, low-water, and native plant designs that include edibles and provide color year-round. Installation uses sustainable methods like newspaper lawn covering, rock river swales, rain gardens, and natural stonework with sustainable materials such as logs, log slices, composted soil, and wood chip mulch. Eco-yards also offers eco-lawns that do not need mowing or much water as well as lawn seeding and overseeding. Their compost tea spray keeps yards healthy in an organic and safe way.

2. Eco-yardsTMis an eco-friendly landscaping company owned by Laureen Rama in Calgary, Alberta, Canada offering • Landscape Design • Installation of Landscapes • Eco-yards Spray (Compost Tea)

3. Landscape design specializing in • low-maintenance, low water use • native and hardy plants • edibles • colour year-round

5. Installation of eco-friendly landscapes

6. Sustainable methods, such as covering lawn with newspaper

8. Rock river swales

10. Rain gardens

12. Natural stone work

16. Sustainable materials • rustic logs • log slice steps • composted soil • wood chip mulch

18. Eco-lawns • no need to mow and little need for water • seeding new lawns • overseeding existing lawns

21. organic, all natural

24. making your yard water-wise and pesticide-free

25. understanding making compost and basic soil science (soil micro-organisms)

26. replacing your lawn with tree, shrub and flower beds or hardy, low-maintenance grass

27. growing vegetablesFor further information about the book see http://www.eco-yards.com/products.html

28. For further information see http://www.eco-yards.com