Maybe you’ve noticed things have been a bit more lively here at the Landscape Architecture Magazine blog of late, and you’d be right. In addition to cranking up our posting to twice a week (!), we’ve been thinking a bit about what we might do to expand our audience and create more of a community of landscape-minded readers. There are many changes afoot that will be rolled out in 2014, but we’d like your help with some low-hanging fruit, namely our blog roll.
Yes, the blog roll is a venerated tradition in the webs, but often it just becomes a mutual linkfest that highlights the same five well-known news aggregators over and over. We’d like to do something more substantial, and we’d like your help, friendly reader.
Our current blog roll (over on the right—->>) is pretty good, but some of our favorites aren’t posting so much anymore and our sense is that there are a lot more landscape-oriented blogs out there than there were a year ago when we first made the list. That’s where we’d like your help.
So tell us your favorite landscape blogs in the comments below. We’re interested in original content, rather than aggregators, and we’re curious about anything that shapes landscape, from agriculture to climate to infrastructure to policy to design theory to design tech.
Here are some we’ve been reading lately–
Rust Wire. Always a fave. News and urban grit from the rust belt.
BakkenBlog. North Dakota oil and gas.
Big Picture Agriculture. Perspectives on ag policy, food, science.
The Prairie Ecologist. Notes on prairie ecology, restoration, and management.
Small Streets Blog. Life at a plausible scale.
Gizmodo. New life under Geoff Manaugh of bldgblog, but you knew that.
Garden Rant. Various garden-related posts with a strong point of view.
99% Invisible. Blog to accompany the excellent design-oriented podcast.
What are you reading and liking? Suggest blogs in the comments or on Twitter @LandArchMag.
Somehow I neglected to add Maria Popova’s addictive Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org/). Not landscape per se but a design sensibility in everything she sees, does, or writes.
A small bit of self-promotion – our blog, Green Infrastructure for Your Community – covers green infrastructure issues in blog posts twice a week. We focus on how trees, soil, and stormwater are being planned, managed, and maintained in urban environments, and cover everything from recent news and policies to sharing original research and answers to commonly asked questions. I write some of the posts, but we also have regular guest posters, most notably James Urban, FASLA, Peter MacDonagh, FASLA, landscape architects from the Kestrel Design Group, and garden educator Ellyn Shea.
Thanks for sharing some inspiring blogs. I’ve recently started a landscape blog with a focus on living outdoors, sustainable design, creating places to play and building community. You can find the sage advice blog here http://www.browngreenandmore.com/sageadviceblog/
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Great list! As what my Columbia SC Landscapers friends say, beautiful landscaping is an effective stress reliever that brings happiness and peace of mind. The blogs you’ve listed promote appreciation of nature and things that we can do to enhance its beauty. Thanks for sharing these awesome blogs.
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Thanks for the great information and the links to other interesting resources. Another great source is http://GreenStrides.com, the blog focuses on sustainable landscaping and design.
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Thanks for sharing your blog list. Hope you don’t mind me shamelessly self-promoting but I would love it if you took a peek at my blog http://www.daisylovesdesign.com I’m a landscape architect and I blog here mostly about landscape design/architecture, gardens and landscape inspired/related products and art. Still in it’s infancy, but the plan is to blog at least every second day as there is just so much awesome ‘green’ design out there.
Thanks for sharing this list up, some good reads but the “Big picture Ag” link does not work
Fixed! Thanks for the head’s up.
Thanks a lot for sharing these blogs. I don’t know good blogs about landscaping , so thanks a lot! Regards!
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Those blogs are really inspiring, thanks for sharing this to us.
I’ll going to follow those blogs, cheers. 🙂
Thank you guys, this is a great list. I’m always looking for good landscape blogs to follow.
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So kind of you to share so many interesting blogs. I read your magazine and I love it! Thank you for the unique and interesting ideas every single time!
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Appreciate your generosity in sharing this list . Always looking for a different perspective and ideas.
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Thank you guys, this is a great list. I’m always looking for good landscape blogs to follow.
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Thanks for sharing your list. I will try to visit all the sites you’ve suggested and learn new techniques & strategies in landscaping.
Thanks for sharing your blog list. Hope you don’t mind me shamelessly self-promoting but I would love it if you took a peek at my blog http://www.kitelandscapes.co.uk/
I’m a landscape architect and I blog here mostly about landscape design/architecture, gardens and landscape inspired/related products and art.
Thanks for the list. I am interested in garden water fountain designs and I have a new web site where I sell garden fountains. Any articles or sites you can recommend on incorporating water features into the garden
What an awesome resource. It can be hard to find go-to landscaping and DIY style blogs. Thanks for sharing this and putting the work in to create it!
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Thanks for the list! Was looking for some blogs to read more up on landscaping. Really enjoyed the Rust Wire blog!
With super busy lifestyle these days, it’s hard to catch up with the latest techniques of gardening and landscaping. It’s going through blogs and articles every now and then that helps in keeping up with the latest trends.
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Thanks for the list! I have been reading a number of garden blogs off late and one of those is gardeninggonewild.com where the author, Fran, provides a healthy and motivated view of gardening.for her readers, I’ve enjoyed her reads and thought she is doing a splendid job motivating newbies like myself. In the meantime, I am going to check up the blogs you’ve suggested.
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