Earth's Answer Gardening      

         & Ecological Rehabilitation                                                 

Earth’s Answer Gardening & Ecological Rehabilitation is a local Durham North Carolina company.

Our mission is to make gardens, to foster ecological rehabilitation, and to contribute to education about ecology and the environment. We work with individual homeowners, local businesses, and educational organizations & enterprises.


   


 Gardening
 
 Focus is upon modification of an area for cultivation and        maintenance of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and or any variety of  ornamental plants.
  ¤ planting & propagation
  ¤ weeding, pruning & trimming 
  ¤ erosion & drought prevention measures
  ¤ garden design & implementation
  ¤ small scale landscaping

 

Le Petit Jardinier by F. Bazille c1866-1867

                                                      


Ecological Rehabilitation
 
Emphasizes the repair of the biological community of interacting organisms. Focus is on historical or pre-existing
ecosystems as models or references and their physical environment.

  ¤ local species inventories
  ¤ natural areas assessment & stewardship 
  ¤ habitat modeling & rehabilitation 
  ¤ substrate enrichment 
  ¤ promotion of community biota e.g. use of native plants, foster populations of beneficial animals 
        (lady bugs, earthworms, birds, praying mantis, etc...) 
  ¤ mitigation of invasive species

                  

Photo credit:                                                                                                                                                            Photo credit: KC Martin 2009 

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/bumblebee_tcm6-8409.jpg                                                                                                    

                                    

                             

                                                 Photo credit  

                                                 http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20212907_20482905,00.html



About Us:

Earth’s Answer Gardening & Ecological Rehabilitation 

was started by Kathleen (Kacie) Martin. Kacie holds a BS in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and two graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

At the University of North Carolina (UNC), Kacie earned an MA in Curriculum & Instruction Design and an interdisciplinary PhD in Culture, Curriculum & Change. Kacie’s research interests include: learning, knowledge production, and human development in complex, cultural and ecological systems.

While attending the University of North Carolina, Kacie was a graduate teaching assistant and a supplemental lecture instructor in UNC's Department of Biology. Kacie currently teaches: gardening and ecology.


Photo credit: Gretchen Van De Carr 2011 
   William Blake's poem, "Earth's Answer", provided the inspiration for our                         business name. The paragraphs below provide some insight into our worldview                  and our working philosophy. 
                
                                                                         
  
                                 Photo credit: NASA

Earth is in the balance and “sustainability” has become a keyword in our current 21st- century lexicon. The task of creating and developing sustainable relationships occurs at the nexus of social, environmental, and economic practices. This means that the implementation of sustainable practices relies upon strategies of resource investments that foster and contribute to the livelihoods of all individuals participating in a local environment. 


Within an environment, the local activities of individual producers and individual consumers resonate across scales of time and space. As a consumer of gardening products and gardening services the choices you make impact the environment, the local economy, and other individuals sharing in the environment.

 

Earth’s Answer Gardening & Ecological Rehabilitation understands individuals in an environment to be human and non-human living entities. By recognizing that humans and non-humans are participants in an environment the connections between sustainable practices and living ecologically become more evident. 


An ecological community is a group of different species interacting in a particular geographic location characterized by distinctive energy flows and materials recycling. If human beings fail to recognize their interactions in their local ecological communities--or worse yet, resist the conception that human beings co-exist with non-human species in the many ecological communities that constitute the earth--then the implementation of sustainable practices can never be truly effective.


Earth’s Answer Gardening & Ecological Rehabilitation wants to help you be effective in practicing sustainability. We want to assist you with your projects to insure their ecologic viability. 

                         

 


         
 

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Contact information:
(email) kcmartin@clearwire.net
(voice mail) 919.627.4007


Free initial consultation, by appointment, for individual services or for a proposed project.

Monthly and seasonal service plans are available. 

We can help you get your garden certified as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation www.nwf.org

Member:
Arbor Day Foundation
www.arbordayfoundation.org
 National Wildlife Federation
www.nwf.org
Society for Ecological Restoration International
www.ser.org

                                                          
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