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Composting for Beginners

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Composting attracts bees, worms, and other bugs which help your garden thrive. Composting is a great way to help your plants grow. Better than anything store bought, and, if you watch what you throw in that bin, is an organic alternative to any fertilizer or plant food you can buy at the store. Do you compost? .

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Ways Going Green Can Improve Your Health — And Save You Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

So, not only do you reduce the pollution from driving an individual vehicle, taking public transit and/or riding your bike also provides you the chance to add a little more exercise to your life. Planting, weeding, and harvesting all require a certain level of physical effort.

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Free Kindle eBooks: The Math Inspectors, The War of the Roses and More

For the Mommas

Growing your own vegetables at home has countless benefits. Everything from planning to building, germinating, planting, growing, and harvesting is included. Over two hundred years span the lifetime of one of history’s most notorious royal families. Green Thumb Gardening by Charlie Tucker.

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Free Kindle eBooks: Go To Sleep Mom!, Sourdough Creek and More

For the Mommas

Green Thumb Gardening: Make Your Home by Charlie Tucker. Growing your own vegetables at home has countless benefits. Everything from planning to building, germinating, planting, growing, and harvesting is included. Incredible Home Canning Solutions by Martha Millhouse.

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Sustainable Living Traits To Pass On To Your Children

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Go hiking and camping and show them the beauty of the outdoors (and teach them to leave trails and campsites better than when you arrived) Plant a garden with your children to give them a tangible example of how much fun growing your own food and eating healthy can be!

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