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- Diversifying for the future: Using climate projections, enrich biodiversity in outdoor living spaces by converting lawn spaces to refugia gardens.
- Focusing on ecological functions: Provide food, shelter, and breeding sites for insects and birds by planting biodiverse clusters of perennials, shrubs, and trees in refugia gardens that interconnect.
- Enhancing natural landscapes: Design all-season refugia gardens with native and other desired species, making use of natural landscape features, microhabitats, and microclimates that facilitate ecological functions.
- Co-creating with nature: Pay attention to ecological interactions in a spirit of reciprocity and nurture changes in your refugia gardens that facilitate adaptation over time.
- Cultivating relational caring: Create space for humans to interact with the garden, to encounter wildness, and to instill reciprocity and kinship.
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