Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 7, 2011

Try to keep your garden away from your home and other structures, as contaminants from paints and metals can enter the soil quite easily. For beginners, a 10-foot square garden will provide adequate room for a variety of vegetable plants. If you plan on having a wide variety of plants, just make your plot larger.

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Grow Your Own Growing Organic Organization 145

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 25, 2012

Choose packaged products that are produced as close to where you live as possible to limit the miles it has to travel. Organic farming is a sustainable method of growing crops and grazing meat animals without the use of toxic chemicals. Educate yourself by reading the labels on food packaging. Grow your Own .

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Growing Plants Grow Your Own Gardening 234

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 8, 2014

You got the food you were going to eat the very day you were going to eat it; when she was young, they barely even had iceboxes for milk, never mind our modern American fridges stuffed full of packaged and processed “food.” Talk to the farmers, they’re usually very cool and informative, happy to discuss your food needs with you.

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Food Organic Organization Buy 170