Archive for March, 2010
(Compost) A little bit about scrabooking crops
No commentsBy Josef Strong
Quilting bees served a dual purpose for women in the 1800’s and beyond - they created a necessity, a warm quilt, and created an opportunity for women to socialize. Quilting bees were a time when women would gather to help each other complete quilts, tell their personal stories, exchange recipes, and give advice [...]
Organic Flowers, Natural Beauty And Habitat For Pollinators (compost recycling)
No commentsBy Gen Wright
Organic flowers have risen in popularity largely due to Fair Trade practices that promote small farms in other countries growing organic produce or fruit to earn their own income. The typical bouquet that you would have delivered by a florist or one that you pick up in the supermarket has been grown [...]
Understanding the Use of Fertilizer (home composting)
No commentsBy Mohammed Wilder
Commonly used to promote growth in plants, fertlizer is applied to the soil after being obtained naturally or through a chemical process. Due to the fact that natural products are generally more healthy than those that are manufactured, natural fertilizer is often the best type to use. Fertilizer, alone, is designed to provide [...]
Not Found in Your Local Greenhouse (compost tumbler)
No commentsBy Abel Jones
Do you scour your seed catalogs or look at all the new varieties that have come out in your gardening magazines? You can’t wait to go to your local greenhouse and purchase them for your garden or flower bed. But when you get there, you find they don’t carry that variety.
Why not start [...]
