How to change your yard to a California Native landscape

Using California natives in your gardening scheme can be very easy. There is a big trend now to hiring landscapers to transform your lawn into California natives, but this can be very expensive. In the Mountain View area, some quotes are 15k to do this.

I’m here to say you may be able to create […]

How one family reduced their water usage more than 50%

Sometimes necessity is a larger motivator than entirely noble intentions. We found ourselves with an old pool which constantly generated more leaks than we could fix. We had never sought a pool in our house hunting in 2003, but this house had one and we figured we would keep it and see if we enjoyed […]

29 Medicinal Plants

“To ignore the experience of people trained in the science of their day, or simply expert in the practical application of folk medicine, is both culturally bigoted and unscientific. We cannot presume that conventional modern science knows everything. Folk tradition includes many more layers of nuanced experience, including information drawn from the imagination, intuition, observation […]

About this site

We made this website because there is a drought in California where we live and we have a few ways to save water on plants. California Natives are plants that don’t need to be watered as often as most plants, so you would save lots of water. We are selling some of those plants […]