Climate Proofing Your PNW Garden

09/01/23 • 39 min

Are you wondering how to adapt your garden to climate change? As our summers become hotter and dryer, learn how to adapt your garden and make it more resilient. In this episode we speak with best-selling author and business owner, Jessi Bloom of NW Bloom Ecological Services about practical tips, innovative techniques and expert insights to cultivate resilient gardens that thrive.
Episode Topics:

What is a resilient landscape
How do we adapt our garden to climate change
What is permaculture
Trends in landscape maintenance
Tips for how to create a resilient garden
Soil health
Water collection and water harvesting
Best application for drip application

About Jessi Bloom:
Jessi Bloom was born and raised in the PNW and has a strong background of horticulture and environmental sciences. Her work has gotten press and been featured in many national and local media outlets from the NY Times, Better Homes & Gardens, Sunset Magazine, DISNEY, Martha Stewart Living. She is a speaker and the best-selling author of:

Free-Range Chicken Gardens (2012)
Practical Permaculture Design(2015) which is now in 6 languages;
Creating Sanctuary: Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant Based Medicine and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-Being (2017)
Everyday Sanctuary (2019)

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What is a resilient landscape
How do we adapt our garden to climate change
What is permaculture
Trends in landscape maintenance
Tips for how to create a resilient garden
Soil health
Water collection and water harvesting
Best application for drip application

Free-Range Chicken Gardens (2012)
Practical Permaculture Design(2015) which is now in 6 languages;
Creating Sanctuary: Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant Based Medicine and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-Being (2017)
Everyday Sanctuary (2019)

Learn more about Cascade Water Alliance’s We Need Water Program
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @weneedh20
Watch the episode on Youtube

Previous Episode

Tapped Out: Climate Change's Impact on Our PNW Water

Climate change is impacting the PNW right now. In Washington, our summers are getting hotter and drier. Did you know we’ve already lost 15-30% of our snowpack over the last 80 years with even more expected in the next 80 years? Our reservoirs aren’t big enough to withstand large periods of droughts, like in other states like California.

What do we need to be doing from a climate change perspective? Enter the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, which is helping to build climate resilience in the Pacific Northwest. We talked with Research Scientist, Guillaume Mauger to discuss the state of Washington right now and what you can do to help with climate change and adaptation.

Episode Topics:

What is the UW Climate Impacts Group
Difference between climate mitigation vs adaptation
The two important ways to look at climate change
The impacts on snowpack and reservoirs
Will summers get hotter and drier?
Climate Impacts Group research and work in the PNW
Working with tribes
Three steps people can take to promote climate adaptation

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Untapped Potential: How WaterSense Saves You Water, Money and Water for the Future

Have you ever thought about how much water it takes to flush a toilet? Or run your dishwasher? The EPA’s WaterSense program helps consumers choose more water-efficient products with their WaterSense label for faucets, appliances, irrigation, and more.
In this episode we sit down with Veronica Blette, Chief of the WaterSense Branch, to talk about how they have helped US homeowners save more than $171 billion dollars in water and energy bills and trillions of gallons of water.
Save water, save money, save the planet!
In this episode, we discuss:
What is the WaterSense Program?
How are products reviewed and rated?
What are the efficiency standards and performance?
Why choose a WaterSense product?
What has the impact been?
What are the other programs of WaterSense?
What does the future hold?
Look for the WaterSense label and learn more at: www.epa.gov/watersense or on Facebook
Veronica Blette manages the WaterSense program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water. She loves working on water efficiency with WaterSense, was the 2016 recipient of the Alliance for Water Efficiency Water Star award, and is the current chair of the Water Conservation Division for the American Water Works Association.
At EPA, she has also served as special assistant to the director of the national drinking water program and led the agency’s drinking water infrastructure financing program. Before joining EPA in 1997, she worked in the academic research and environmental consulting fields on projects investigating the effects of acid rain on soils and water quality. She has a B.A. in Geology from Smith College and a M.S. in Geology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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