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Daily Frugal Tip: Grow Your Own Pineapples

Couponing 101

Head on over to The Thrifty Couple to learn how to grow your own pineapples from leftover pineapple tops. It does take a couple years for the plant to produce a pineapple, but it sounds like a fun experiment! Daily Frugal Tip: Grow Your Own Pineapples is a post from Couponing 101.

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Commercial Or Organic Food – What’s On Your Plate?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Which is the greener choice – commercially-farmed food or organically-farmed food? Let’s look at some of the facts surrounding these two methods of producing our food and find out which is the greener choice and how each one compares with helping us save money. Commercially Grown. Organically Grown. What Does Science Say?

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Foods You Need to Buy Organic, and Foods You Don’t

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My grandmother, who turned 102 earlier this year, remembers when “organic” wasn’t even a word used when talking about food. All food was natural in that it wasn’t coated with hundreds of toxic pesticides, fungicides, and any other cide you can think of. But back to the “organic” issue at hand. And we all know we don’t need more crap.

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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Fifty years ago, this was the norm; almost every backyard had a veggie patch that supplemented the food bought at a store. Then life got busy, food was more readily available and was often flown in from further afield, making varieties available out of season. This means that you use natural products to feed and protect the plants.

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5 Tips for the Beginning Gardener

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you want to improve your health and your sustainability, one of the best ways is to grow a garden. Caring for a garden offers opportunities for exercise outside, and it allows for you to ensure that the food you eat is responsibly grown. Grow Easy Items First. Be sure to plan out where you will keep your plants.

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Ways To Reuse Old Items For Your Container Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

You might be surprised at the types of plants you can grow in a container garden. From using espaliering to grow apple trees in a container, to herbs, to a variety of vegetables , it’s possible to transform a small space into an effective container garden. Plant your little seeds in the bottom part.

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Composting for Beginners

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Growing up, I remember my mom always sending me out to the composting bin with a bucket full of (what I thought was) gross bits and pieces of food waste. Composting attracts bees, worms, and other bugs which help your garden thrive. Composting is a great way to help your plants grow. What You Can Compost?

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