I’m Bennet, welcome to my garden. BennetsGarden is about gardening, of course, but we’ll also explore home engineering hacks, product reviews, and insights earned through caretaking our little corner of the natural world.  We will test products and propose improvements, conduct experiments, and taking on aggressive do-it-yourself home engineering projects.

More importantly, once you are out in nature on a regular basis it’s impossible not to begin noticing, and then more deeply engaging with, the critters that are dependent upon on the environments we curate. 

It is all too easy to grow up in the human built environment and callously assume we have little impact on the natural world.  Through BennetsGarden I hope you will learn that we can have a meaningful positive impact on individual creatures, and collectively we can eventually find balance with nature on a global scale.

In this way BennetsGarden is about seeking a sustainable lifestyle. As Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia said, “Repair is a radical act.” The disposable economy has led America to be dependent on global supply chains and has eroded our economic independence and made us blind to the impact our consumption has on our planet.

By each taking responsibility for our little pieces of nature, and by choosing to repair and maintain quality products each of us can help re-establish the economic and environmental strength of our households, our local economies, our country, and our world.