Family Balance Sheet
APRIL 21, 2011
My composting adventures all started about 9 years ago when our local Penn State Cooperative Extension office offered a free composting bin (the round one in the picture) when you attended their free composting seminar. I have a system going, but I am a laid back composter. So what did I learn at the seminar?
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Basically there are two reasons to compost. The second is supplementary to the first–you use the compost as fertilizer. Although there are numerous aids available to assist you in composting, it all comes down to the fundamentals; make a pile of biodegradable matter and wait until it breaks down. Different Shapes.
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Prairie Eco-Thrifter
AUGUST 13, 2012
Since I already had some sandrete (a kind of cement I use to fill the lines in my brick sidewalk), I decided to wait on getting a kit and do a bit more research. Something to use to write messages on the wet cement. I used the sandrete I already had. Pretty things to embed in the wet cement.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Do you use artificial trees or live cut real ones? According to a New York Times article last December, there are a bunch of us that have artificial trees – me included. We have used this tree for 15 years now. In addition, some trees are grown close to where they are used, lowering the transportation carbon emitted.
The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
My interest in frugality is less about saving money specifically, and more about making good use of the resources I have. Making good use of the resources I have – not only money, but my health, physical abilities, skills, etc. Cycling equipment and gear. How did you get interested in saving money?
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
JANUARY 28, 2013
“moved from simple dumping on land or sea, to burial, sanitary landfill, feeding to swine, reduction, incineration, and various forms of composting”. Although attempts at regulation and re-use abounded, most met with societal, economic and/or political failure. none of them were working to contain the growing mountains of waste.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MARCH 16, 2011
Slowly I transitioned to composting my kitchen scraps, again limiting the number of items that ended up in our city’s landfill. Thankfully, our nights are usually cool, so opening up the windows at night should eliminate the use of the air conditioner for a good eight-hours per day.
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