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70How to Prepare Soil for an Organic Garden
If you are new to organic gardening, here is a great way to prepare your organic garden for the upcoming growing season. Like many organic gardeners you will want the soil to be well prepared for seeds, seedlings and any small plants such as tomatoes or peppers that you may want to grow in your organic garden plot.
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74Lose the Styrofoam: Notes on Green Business and Sustainability
If you're still using Styrofoam packing peanuts and coffee cups—for the love of all that is green and lovely, stop it already! Sure, it's cheap. But there are real tangible reasons to make the switch to a greener, biodegradable alternative.
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73When to Use Compost
It give me a really great feeling when ever I go to my compost bin to take a satisfying load of dark, crumbly compost that smells so sweet. Then to dig it in to my soil and see my raised bed raise up a tiny bit more, filled with nature’s own...
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77Organic vs Non-Organic Soil
There are many differences between organic and non-organic soils. Mulch, compost, and manure are organic and will transform a nutrient deficient soil into a rich organic environment for plants. Perlite, vermiculite, expanded clay aggregate, and rockwool are non-organic. They are heavily used in hydroponics and as soil amendments for potted plants.
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70What's in your school's trash? And why should you care?
School trash - what's in it, where it goes, and why you should know.
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72Green Schools - Starting Your Green Team
How to start a green team at your school. Taking the first step towards more sustainable school practices.
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75My Spring Gardening Hubs!
A collection of my Hubpages articles that focus on gardening and envionmental friendly landscapes. Hubs included discuss victory gardens, composting, growing vegetables from kitchen scraps, greening your backyard and the importance of street trees.
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84Insufficient funds
Life is just getting more and more expensive. No matter how much you are able to make, it doesn’t make sense to spend more than needed. Gardening and food canning are two ways you can save additional costs with eating at home. If you are one of the few blessed individuals who do not have to worry about expenses, the mere health factor of no added chemical’s, preservatives, and additives should be enough reason to learn how to compost, make a rain barrel, grow food in your own garden, and how
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78Compost Tumbler Reviews - Why A Compost Tumbler And Which One?
Compost tumbler reviews tend to focus on available models and I'm certainly going to give you a few useful ideas. I also want to look at why you would choose a compost tumbler over other ways of making compost and the various types of compost tumbler bin available.
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74Make A Compost Bin Or Buy One?
Making a compost bin is not difficult and you can use all kinds of materials. Of course it may not be the prettiest thing in your garden ever. The compost doesn't care, but is buying a compost bin a better idea?
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