Comments on: Sustainable Living http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:06:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: truevyne http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/#comment-2897 truevyne Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:28:25 +0000 http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/#comment-2897 We give all our kitchen scraps to our grateful chickens. In turn, they reward us with some great fertilizer. A friend called and asked me to bring her some chicken poop for her garden when I visited for a crafting party. Buck helped me obliged by shoveling out the chicken coop into a chicken feed bag and putting it in the back of the van. On the bag he wrote the word "recycled" in big black letters over top of the words "chicken feed" already printed on the bag. Last night, we saw her and my husband mentioned giving her "a whole lot of crap lately." Oh, dear! We give all our kitchen scraps to our grateful chickens. In turn, they reward us with some great fertilizer.
A friend called and asked me to bring her some chicken poop for her garden when I visited for a crafting party. Buck helped me obliged by shoveling out the chicken coop into a chicken feed bag and putting it in the back of the van. On the bag he wrote the word “recycled” in big black letters over top of the words “chicken feed” already printed on the bag.

Last night, we saw her and my husband mentioned giving her “a whole lot of crap lately.”

Oh, dear!

]]> By: admin http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/#comment-2883 admin Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:06:10 +0000 http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/#comment-2883 EM!!!!! You Greenie form MN:-)So good to see you posting:-) Of all my friends of COURSE you would of done the SQ FT gardening. OK - for the composter - get a 5 gallon bucket (with lid) from Home Deport and drill 8-12 1 inch holes around the bottom inch of the bucket near the base. Set in a larger tray, maybe like a plant tray to catch overflow water. Fill it half way with cow manure that you buy in bag form form Wal-mart and then add about 1,000 red wigglers (buy online or at a bait shop) and wet it down then set it out on your porch. Everyday add everything from your kitchen, meat and paper napkins inculded. Just don't add anything too salty. Keep it moist and you will find your waste gone almost by the next day. You will not believe what Jeff and Carol are doing with this down in Peru. It is AWESOME! Self-composting toilets for goodness sake! In about 4-6 months you will have home grown compost for your sq ft garden:-) I am going to do the square foot garden and last night I figured out how to do it in our courtyard. Jeff says one 4x4 sq ft garden will produce enough produce for one person. So you make a few for each person in your family and say good buy to organic prices at publix:-) Bring the boys and come down for a day. We can build one together. Greenie-Chicks with power tools. Yeah baby! Kisses to the boys and Matt! EM!!!!! You Greenie form MN:-)So good to see you posting:-) Of all my friends of COURSE you would of done the SQ FT gardening.

OK - for the composter - get a 5 gallon bucket (with lid) from Home Deport and drill 8-12 1 inch holes around the bottom inch of the bucket near the base. Set in a larger tray, maybe like a plant tray to catch overflow water. Fill it half way with cow manure that you buy in bag form form Wal-mart and then add about 1,000 red wigglers (buy online or at a bait shop) and wet it down then set it out on your porch.

Everyday add everything from your kitchen, meat and paper napkins inculded. Just don’t add anything too salty. Keep it moist and you will find your waste gone almost by the next day. You will not believe what Jeff and Carol are doing with this down in Peru. It is AWESOME! Self-composting toilets for goodness sake! In about 4-6 months you will have home grown compost for your sq ft garden:-) I am going to do the square foot garden and last night I figured out how to do it in our courtyard. Jeff says one 4×4 sq ft garden will produce enough produce for one person. So you make a few for each person in your family and say good buy to organic prices at publix:-)

Bring the boys and come down for a day. We can build one together. Greenie-Chicks with power tools. Yeah baby!

Kisses to the boys and Matt!

]]> By: Emily C http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/#comment-2882 Emily C Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:02:23 +0000 http://www.homeschool-diva.com/2008/02/15/sustainable-living/#comment-2882 I use the sq ft gardening method and LOVE IT! I actually tried to change it to a "traditional" garden last season and saw how much more work and less productive it was! And btw would love you to share about the kitchen composting...though we have slightly more than you as far as land goes, I don't want this huge smelly box in our yard, yet every time I get rid of my food waste (especially produce stuff), I know this could be easily composted...somehow.... My brother works with the Americorp groups all over the US and has made me far more aware of the importance of exactly what you mentioned; RIGHT ON! Currently trying to find balance between convenience and conservation...(I love my swiffer mop but the landfill probably doesn't like it so much...) I use the sq ft gardening method and LOVE IT! I actually tried to change it to a “traditional” garden last season and saw how much more work and less productive it was! And btw would love you to share about the kitchen composting…though we have slightly more than you as far as land goes, I don’t want this huge smelly box in our yard, yet every time I get rid of my food waste (especially produce stuff), I know this could be easily composted…somehow….

My brother works with the Americorp groups all over the US and has made me far more aware of the importance of exactly what you mentioned; RIGHT ON! Currently trying to find balance between convenience and conservation…(I love my swiffer mop but the landfill probably doesn’t like it so much…)

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