Terra Nova owner Ken Foster forming Leaf Blower Task Force-Santa Cruz. Looking for eight individuals to take on leaf blower pollution in Santa Cruz. Come out, come out wherever you…
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To our fellow landscapers: This is a challenge from Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping. We are a landscaping company in the Santa Cruz area, in business for 25 years. We ask…
I try to keep a level head and my language clean when I’m writing but when it comes to leaf blowers all bets are off, because leaf blowers blow, or…
Many recycled and repurposed materials can be sourced from the urban waste stream and used to create planting containers and raised garden beds. Which materials are safe and non-toxic? Which…
I don’t usually get all gushy about cement. As a self-professed “softscaper” and plant lover I don’t have much use for the stuff. I opt for plantscapes and permeable surfaces…
Terra Nova owner Ken Foster standing in center next to mother Ellie and surrounded by family next to the first Terra Nova bicycle trailer in December 1991. Ellie was Terra…
The one of a kind ‘Chai Mulch’ at an end ? Sun Chai who has supplied Chai Mulch to Terra Nova customers for the past seven years is moving their production…
Terra Nova was recently honored with the 2011 Gold Award in the Santa Cruz Weekly’s readers survey. We also won this award in 2007 and 2009—so 2011 is a charm! Our…
By Owen Dell From The Earthworm’s Lair: Owen Dell’s Sustainable Landscaping Blog Rain barrels are the de rigueur item for urban eco-hipsters these days. They’re sold in every garden catalog, subsidized…
By Jillian Steinberger Contra Costa Times correspondent When it comes to gray water systems, there are lots of questions. The most important ones to answer are what system do you…
