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Healthy Home
Healthy Home profiles alternative energy pioneers, demonstrates creating urban gardens and healthy lawns without herbicides, and visits a unique co-housing initiative.
Energy pioneers Jean Michel Krieff and Patricia Bendell treasure their land; in fact, they love it so much that they were willing to pioneer alternative energy sources to live on it. Their labour of love has evolved into a healthier lifestyle, and a warm and inviting home.
Living in the middle of a dense concrete jungle doesn’t mean living without Mother Nature. By utilizing a selection of plants suited to specific climates, Dave Hutch demonstrates how easy it is to enhance a home and reduce stress by creating a garden oasis in an urban setting.
Classic North American ‘green lawns’, commonly fed by tons of herbicides and pesticides each year, can be potentially harmful. Gardening expert Brian Minter discusses how to keep lawns weed-free and healthy without using herbicides.
Health experts agree that living in isolation increases health risks; in contrast, three members of a unique co-housing community reveal the benefits of sharing their homes and lives with each other. Carol McQuarrie and Brian and Linda Burke have struggled through years of planning and construction to create the Quayside Co-housing Village because they are passionate about living in an environmentally responsible and socially interactive community.