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By embracing the natural landscape, a barren yard turns into an eco-friendly outdoor retreat | News, Sports, Jobs

 
 
 
 Deb Caswell, Lanikeha home-owner, stands higher than her backyard garden that features indigenous drought-tolerant crops, drip irrigation and other LID (Low-Impact Structure and Improvement) aspects these kinds of as bioswales to handle runoff and cut down pollution. Photo BY LIZ FOOTE. KAANAPALI – When Debra Caswell purchased a barren 1-third-acre ton in Lanikeha above Kaanapali, creating a property wasn’t her best priority. “I required a property to mature a backyard,” said Caswell. When she bought the eco-friendly gentle to begin construction, she quickly moved her mass of vegetation – currently expanding in anticipation at her then-apartment – to her new house. Her eyesight for the outside…