Sandy Loam, Suburban Blight, Changes

Wild Working Gardens

Female bluebirds enjoy mealworms from a coco coir hanging planter, Ridge, NY. Photo by Bugchik (on Instagram)

The suburbs were invented on some of the most fertile soil on earth, Long Island’s fabled sandy loam. A rich strip of sand and sediment dropped by an ice age glacier as it melted, the top soil it scraped off the skin of modern day Connecticut as …