May 20th 2007
Burlington, VT newspaper highlights WSD's culinary earth work
"One exciting way to expand the number of local species is to fashion microclimates in which the prevailing temperature is different from that of surrounding areas. Creating windbreaks of nut-bearing trees and using passive solar landscape design — where water and rocks capture the sun's rays and pass the warmth to the ground — are two options. "It can be 70 degrees [in one small area] when it's 40 degrees elsewhere,"......