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Energy Efficiency Saveonenergy.ca
Check out the checklist from Saveonenergy.ca for a list of things you can do to your home to make it more efficient and save on energy.
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Eco Friendly Toddler to Pre-schooler Room
Re-using almost all of our furniture and materials except for a few new accessories and linens. We have taken my toddlers Nursery to a functional room for a growing and active
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This is an awesome room. Green and blue together is my favorite color combination.
How to Revive Butcher Block
If you use butcher block or wood cutting boards, or have butcher block counters, you know that they can look a little beat up at times. In just a few minutes, you can revive your cutting
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LOL Paul R. Have a nice Father's Day.
Creating A Simple And Inexpensive Rain Water Collection System
Visitors to the farm are usually surprised to learn that we water the entire garden and landscape with only reclaimed rain water. Our system, which collects and stores rainwater from our
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Please remember that there are chemicals and toxins in the materials that your roofs are made ...»
How to Clean that Stubborn Toilet Bowl Ring for .25 cents
Chemical free trick to clean that nasty toilet bowl ring.. http://anyonecandecorate.blogspot.com/2012/0...
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My friend lives in an area where the Water has Lots of Iron or sulfur, because it really brown ...»
How To Make And Use Compost Tea - The Ultimate Organic Fertilizer
Compost tea is the perfect way to boost your plants growth and obtain higher yields - NATURALLY. Better yet, you can make it for free using your own compost! We keep our garden productive
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When our Louisville Zoo next offers "zoo-poopy-do", I plan to get my tea brewing. (We usually ...»
8 Great Tips For Finding FREE Compost Materials
Compost is a necessity if you want to have great soil and healthy, productive plants. Along with cover crops, compost is one of the two major components that are critical to our garden's
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Coffee grounds keep slugs away from Hostas, don't know why it wouldn't work with any plant.
State Mandate on Stormwater Will Likely Affect Most Building Projects
Adding a swimming pool, screened porch, extra bedroom or new deck?
You may have to throw in a rain garden to do so.
Considering a new storage shed?
You may have to add the costs of tacking on gutters or a rain barrel before plopping it down in a corner of your property.
Thinking about widening your driveway, building a garage or erecting a carport to shelter the RV? ...»
Composting for Beginners
If you'd asked me a couple years ago about composting, I would have assumed it was a fringe thing that hippie mamas in Birkenstocks did. Storing your trash and turning it into soil just seemed so . . . granola. Way too granola for this city dweller. But then I visited my sister-in-law Jodie in Seattle, and noticed a small little container on her counter that she used to collect composting items. She showed me how it worked and really demystified it for me, and suddenly I saw it as the
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Composting for Kids
I've wanted to do this for a long time but finally got it started. This is composting on a small scale which works well for us with the kids and our small garden. The kids are so excited about it! Everyday I tell them we have something for the compost bin and they all are wanting to help. It involves teamwork because the cover needs to come off and be put back on and the rug draped back over the top. They take turns dumping the bucket and returning it to the deck by the patio door for
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