Posts Tagged ‘Recycling’

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Urban gardens on buses

I recently ran into this photo and article thought it was too cool not to pass on: As taken from Urban Gardens, this describes the photo above: “Gardens Thrive on Top of City Busses Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It’s an effort that rose out of New [...]

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Sticks and branches- recycle or trash?

I know the title of this post seems like a no-brainer, but I’ve run into a dilemma recently that I wanted to share: When we first purchased our house there was a lot of yard waste between normal lawn mowing and yard renovation. I hated the idea of bagging it all and sending it off to the [...]

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Reader’s questions- brown materials and vermicomposting

Below is a question from one of our readers. We thought others might want to see the info we gathered, so we’re turning the comment into it’s very own post From Teri: I’m wondering if you two have done any research on easy, I mean EASY, ways to compost all those green kitchen scraps w/o [...]

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Bed Building Materials

This is the pile of wood waiting for recycling at the Loveland, Colorado Recycling Center.  When I started scavenging pieces from it a few years ago, I never saw anyone else picking through it to take things home.  But this year, when we began mining it for materials to build raised beds, I ran into [...]