When stress, anxiety, or sadness creep in, stepping into a garden can offer you some much needed relief. These five tips will get you started.
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Composting Is a Last Resort for Wasted Food
Composting is a crucial, yet last resort, taken after we have exhausted all the other efforts to reduce wasted food.
How to Prevent Food From Spoiling During a Power Outage
An approaching storm threatens to cause an extended power outage and your refrigerator is full of food. These tips will help you save it.
How to Make a Compost Bin Liner Out of Newspaper
Keep your compost pail cleaner with an easy-to-make newspaper bin liner. It saves money and adds brown matter to a compost heap.
Some of the Stuff I Get Free
After recently picking up free mulch, I made a list of just some of the useful items I get for free regularly.
How to Compost Food Scraps With or Without a Yard
Ideally we would eat all the food we buy but wasted food happens. Wasted food and food scraps belong in a compost bin, indoors our out.
13 Tips for Plastic Free Gardening on the Cheap
Gardeners want to fill their yards with plants—not the landfill with plastic. These tips will cut loads of the plastic you find in nurseries.
Frugal Hugelkultur: How to Build the Ultimate Raised Garden Bed
Hugelkultur beds contain dead wood that, upon decomposition, returns water and nutrients to the soil for waste-free, frugal gardening.
Passive Zero Waste: Doing Nothing Is the Best Solution
If sustainable living seems hard, try passive zero-waste. In other words, do nothing (or very little). Here are 11 strategies.