My 26th sustainable activity was to realize that I know where to get horse manure for my garden so I should probably go and bag some up. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner. It’s going to be a stinky drive (I’m going to have to pick it up first thing Sunday…
Up until the past two weeks I’d been planning my garden with one goal in mind – return on investment. My goal was to get as much food out of that garden as possible and ignore flowers (which I considered lazy for not yielding a harvest). Then I saw an interesting news release about planting milkweed…
I got to use power tools for my 14th sustainable action. I made a very simple composter using objects I already had lying around the house. It was pretty easy too. All I had to do was drill holes around the top of a plastic bin. Apparently, the size of the holes doesn’t matter as long…
This one’s a biggie – I’m starting a kitchen garden. Until late last week there was still a heavy layer of snow on the backyard – so it’s still a bit too early to get excited. Thus far I’ve purchased seeds and potting soil to start a few seedlings before the last frost (which is still…
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