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?

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Compost Composting Backyard Flowers and Plants 214

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 10, 2011

Last year, I chronicled my box garden conversion from random planting to the more calculated method, known as Square Foot Gardening. I had great success, but at the end of the season, I vowed that in 2011, I was going to replace all of the dirt in my box with new soil following the Square Foot Gardening recipe for a soil mix.

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Gardening Garden Compost Composting 147

Family Balance Sheet

MARCH 13, 2012

Whether you are a novice gardener or a master gardener, there are many free or low cost gardening seminars, workshops, and events happening at this time of year. You'll walk away with great information about this year's gardening trends, gardening techniques, and maybe even a plant or two. I chose broccoli.

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Gardening Garden Compost Composting 127

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 17, 2012

We spent this past weekend, cleaning up my square foot garden. As you can see, it needed some attention: Some of the 'weeds' in the picuture is the mint that I naively planted 10 years ago when we built my garden box. I converted the box to the square foot garden method until 2 years ago. Have you opened up your garden yet?

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Gardening Garden Flowers and Plants Cleaning 127

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 19, 2012

We compost much of our food and garden scraps. become a fan and 'like' FBS on Facebook. As a family, we try to be good stewards of our environment: We crossed 10 paper products off our grocery list and replaced them with reusable alternatives. We opt out of lawn chemicals. We conserve water (and save money) during the summer.

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Green Compost Composting Recycle 127

Saving With Shellie

AUGUST 1, 2012

You may have a dedicated space where you grow food, but if you don’t, keep reading because the information here also applies to edible landscaping and container gardening. If no one but the puppy finds that beautiful harvest of dill and eggplant appealing, you may have wasted time and garden space.

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Gardening Garden Plants Growing 65

Nicoles Nickels

APRIL 21, 2014

Before you throw away, make sure to check out what biodegradable foods can be brought back home to be added to a compost pile. Make compost at home! Entenmann’s Bakery also launched a sweepstakes on Facebook through April where fans can win weekly prizes, including a grand prize of $5,000 cash. Website: TerraCycle.com.

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Giveaway Recycle Recycled Recycling 100