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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Compost it by cutting it up and putting it on the pile. Decorate for the next fall holiday with it. My daughter-in-law came up with this idea, buying bulk pumpkins and bulk flowers. Use the pulp for pumpkin bread, cookies, pies, soups and more. Use pumpkins at your wedding as flower baskets.

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Leaf Wrangler – Not for Hire

Nicoles Nickels

They come by with what is basically a big vacuum cleaner and suck up all the leaves off the street into a closed truck and then they haul them to the dump where they get piled onto a compost heap. My daughter has a break in her day so I manage to talk her into coming out to help. It’s a pretty nice setup. Not too bad right?

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

So, I checked in with my daughter-in-law to see what she thought they would have fun doing and that would be fun for her to get. How to Compost Without Fancy Equipment Guest Post Author Bio: Bailey writes about insurance and other topics for the Homeowners Insurance Blog.Basically there are two reasons to. Driving across.

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