There’s just something so great about composting!  Taking items that would otherwise have ended up in a land fill and turning them into something amazing for the garden just makes me happy!  A lot of local municipalities are now offering compost bins for free or at greatly reduced cost for home gardeners.  It’s a great opportunity to reduce our individual foot prints and keep our gardens looking beautiful and free of pesticides.  There are lots of great ways to use compost including, feeding our plants and even making compost tea that will work as an organic pesticide/fungicide.

One more frugal garden tip…  This week I discovered my city offers multiple sites for free mulch pick up!  I’m so excited!  Now I know you have to weigh the potential for nonorganic elements coming into your garden, but we are using it on some walk ways around an above ground pool we just put in.  So the fact that it’s free outways my concerns for this project!

So get out there and help make the world a more beautiful and healthy place to live, by reducing your contribution to landfill waste.

Last year we purchased some egg laying chickens.  They have been a source of great joy and lots of yummy organic eggs for our family.  This is our beautiful Pearl letting us know she has just laid an egg.

Pearl’s talking