yard & garden
hot wheels.
Ready to start spending some time outside? Start thinking about some garden projects, like reusing an old bucket, basket, or wheelbarrow and bump your garden decor up a green notch. We were inspired by a friend of ours made this mini-garden on wheels from an old wheelbarrow she found in a neighbor’s garbage pile. First, ……
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worm your way.
Nearly 30% of waste going to the landfill is organic. Know what that means? You can easily reduce the amount of waste going into landfills. And when you do that, you reduce the amount of green space eaten up by landfills. How? By composing, of course! We all know the smell of compost is very ……
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tissue issue.
Unless you’ve gone back to the hanky, disposable tissues seem to be a real must have. But how do all those innocuous little white squares add up once they leave the waste bin? According to a Green Seal report, paper products make up a whopping 40% of the garbage in U.S landfills and ……
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lower your sodium output.
If you live in a cold climate you’re aware that when it snows, you salt. Now salt is yummy to a point but as over salted food quickly becomes inedible and unusable, so the same applies to our environment. We know winter de-icing salt corrodes vehicles, bridges, and concrete, destroys our floors and shoes, and ……
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chillin’ with compost.
Don’t want to foot the bill or space for a kitchen-sized composting bin? Love saving scraps, but can’t seem to battle flies? There are many solutions for a saving your scraps in the kitchen that don’t require fancy equipment or a trip outdoors to the compost bin after every meal. Recently, a few of our ……
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go native.
March is usually the month when the planting season begins, but if the turning of the new year has you feeling ambitious, why not get a jump on the planning while the iron’s still hot? If your yard is covered in snow right now, you might be thinking of how to rejuvenate your grass once ……
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gold, frankincense and… cardboard?
If you celebrate Christmas, chances are there’s more cardboard under the tree than anything else once the wrapping comes off. Make the most of all those boxes by storing them someplace dry and out of the way (away from the furnace, fireplace, radiator or water heater, please) until spring. Cardboard is an awesome material ……
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save the seeds you sow.
So you’ve been slaving away in the garden this season, toiling your heart out for a few measly peppers and a handful of beans. Thankfully your hard work can live on next year by collecting and storing the seeds of this year’s harvest. There are many ways to save seeds, both in ……
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make like a tree…
If a blanket of leaves left on your lawn really gets your goat, avoid burning the fallen offenders, which only adds to air pollution and find an alternative use. Leaves carry 50% to 80% of the nutrients a tree extracts from the soil and air, including carbon, potassium, and phosphorus. Throw your pile ……
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’tis the season.
Eating local, seasonal produce means your food takes the road less traveled on the way to your plate. Saving miles saves fuel and emissions, and you already know how sexy that is. Knowing to eat the season’s bounty is easy, but knowing what’s in season can be tricky. These days, you can ……
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