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Euclid Creek Blog

Picking up litter is safe and fun with basic PPE, a smart phone and the Litterati app!

This February help us Love Lake Erie by picking up litter with us! If we each pick up a few pieces we will easily surpass our challenge goal to remove at least 500 pieces of litter from the county watersheds. American Rivers sponsors all of our cleanups and they have introduced us to an App called Litterati. If you... read more

Example of a site layout on a typical urban lot.

If you look at the manicured parks and trees lining the streets around your city, you may notice that these trees are not typically fruit bearing. While we have addressed some of the reasons this is the case in this article about allergies, there is a recently growing movement to plant trees and plants that bear fruit in... read more

Supplies for Milk Jug Greenhouses. Cat is optional.

Because me trying to make bread would be an abject failure, I created my own pandemic obsession last year. I decided to harvest the seeds from my cute native plant gardens. Now I live on a small lot, but I’ve made due shrinking the lawn little by little and adding native plants each year where I think I now... read more

Happy New Year, Everyone! Little by little we are getting through these bad times. Friends of Euclid Creek has finished up the 2020 projects and onward to 2021. Please take a look at the FOEC 6 month calendar of events attached. We will publish the last six months of the year as things open up more. So looking to... read more

Carbon is at the core of both climate change issues and soil health issues. Generally speaking, we need less carbon in our atmosphere, and more carbon in our soils. When we till, deforest and otherwise disturb our soils, carbon is released into the atmosphere. We can return carbon to the soil through practices such as cover crops, reforestation... read more

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