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Daily Frugal Tip: Create A Worm Composting Bin

Couponing 101

Check out how to create your own worm composting bin. Do you have a Frugal Tip you’d like to share? Daily Frugal Tip: Create A Worm Composting Bin is a post from Couponing 101. This is a great way to reduce food waste, add great nutrients to your garden/yard soil, and save on fertilizer! Please send me an email !

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7 Ways to Reduce Household Waste

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Compost kitchen waste to feed your garden. From food waste to packaging to disposable items, there are a lot of resources being used by humans. This consumption of resources — and the waste it produces — is not sustainable. Nor is it healthy. Here are 7 ways you can reduce household waste (and maybe even save a little money): 1.

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Thrifty gardening Tips

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Poke weed, dandelion greens, chickweed (according to Eat the Weeds ), are all good salad additions. Poke weed, dandelion greens, chickweed (according to Eat the Weeds ), are all good salad additions. Tip # 2 – Improve your soil frugally. Use compost, make your own. Tip # 1 – Go thrifty on seeds and plants.

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Guerrilla Gardening And Seed Bombing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Coined in 1973 by Liz Christy and her Green Guerrilla group in New York City, guerrilla gardening uses “seed grenades” as a way of introducing vegetation to empty lots in NYC in order to make the city look better. Sure, people do actually plant some of them, but I think throwing them is much more fun. You know you do!

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Cool Things I Read This Week

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

RT @ Green_Panda Handling Your Finances – What is Being Frugal? Green Panda Treehouse [link] I am frugal and I am proud to be #. How to Compost Without Fancy Equipment [link] #. What Kind of Financial Superhero are You? link] via @ BudgetsAreSexy I'm a Bling Bling #. The Luxury of Vacation [link] #.

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Lawn and Garden Tasks To Do Before the Thaw

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I have found that if I spray in February, before things start growing, I kill off whatever it is that is causing the issue, so I’ll do that after I prune, apply true paint and cut up the pruned branches on the compost heap. We live and die by the seasons. Our lives revolve around them as the Earth does the sun. Pick up winter debris.

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The Christmas Tree – Artificial or Real?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Living trees are grown through out Canada and North America as crops, providing green spaces near cities along with carbon eating capacity. Living trees are grown through out Canada and North America as crops, providing green spaces near cities along with carbon eating capacity. Do you use artificial trees or live cut real ones?

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