Thursday, April 7, 2011

Earth Day & Sustainable Gardening...

To celebrate Earth Day-April 22, 2011, the Gardeners' Sustainable Living Project, is holding it's 2nd annual campaign for gardeners to share how they are actively practicing a greener lifestyle and contributing to protect our environment.  If you visit this site and leave a comment indicating what you're doing to be a little "greener" in the garden, you'll be included in a drawing for 21 awesome garden products.  If you go a step further and link to a post you've created that demonstrates your sustainable practices, you'll have the chance to win a compost tumbler or rain barrel.  I obviously want to be included in that drawing!

What is sustainable gardening? - Organic practices (avoiding pesticides and chemicals), replenishing the soil (composting), water conservation (rain barrels, mulching, xeriscaping, incorporating native plants into the landscape), re-purpose, reuse, recycle...

What's my contribution to sustainability? Chickens and worms...

I have two of the world's greatest organic garbage disposers.  My kitchen scraps and garden remains are given to the chickens who eagerly devour my leftovers and deposit a wonderful "fertilizer" in the process.  Their waste, along with the coop bedding, is added to the compost bin and later incorporated back into the garden soil.  What few table-scraps that they don't prefer (such as coffee grounds, tea-bags, egg shells) are given to my composting worms.  These red-wigglers have a huge appetite and can recycle my trash into the richest compost at an incredibly fast speed.  Their castings are then worked back into the soil and the cycle continues...


Visit the Earth Day Network to learn about the A Billion Acts of Green campaign.


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