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Thrifty gardening Tips

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Here are 4 thrifty gardening tips for you if you are planning a garden this year. Tip # 1 – Go thrifty on seeds and plants. The Guardian’s article, How to Be a Thrifty Gardner dove to detail about making compost: “You should have about two-thirds brown stuff (carbon source) to one-third green (nitrogen).

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Ways to Make Your Next Move More Eco Friendly

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We recently moved halfway across the country from Illinois to Arizona. Here are some ways we recycled our moving waste: Creative Ways to Use the Excess Supply. Building a fort out of the boxes is another way to recycle and keep the kids entertained. We hauled all the excess out to recycling on our curbside recycling day.