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How to Save Cash and Your Health With a Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

More and more people like myself are returning to the joy of growing vegetables, herbs and even eggs right in their own backyards. And don’t get me started on the sugar, salt and fat content of processed food! Admittedly, he has a huge garden of 1600 square feet but he was able to grow a huge $2,000 of vegetables in just one season!

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Meet a Reader | JenRR from the Midwest

The Frugal Girl

After I had kids, I swapped that time to growing all sorts of interesting heirloom foods in my backyard. I designed everything, built the cedar beds from scratch, put up wire fencing, built vertical growing structures, and hauled in the soil. If they‘d still fit, I’d be content to continue to wear my clothes from the early 2000s.

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Living Off the Land – My First Paw Paw

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They grow to a max height of about 20 feet and have lovely large leaves. Paw Paws are a native American tree, growing naturally in over 25 states from Florida to southern Ontario to Kansas. Niacin content of pawpaw is twice as high as banana, fourteen times as high as apple, and four times as high as orange. Get Growing'

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Reviewing The World’s Landfills – A Future Fictional Business Plan Excerpt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

“moved from simple dumping on land or sea, to burial, sanitary landfill, feeding to swine, reduction, incineration, and various forms of composting”. none of them were working to contain the growing mountains of waste. percent, was either recycled or composted. Under these conditions, trash will not decompose much.

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Commercial Or Organic Food – What’s On Your Plate?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Farmers use chemical fertilizers to supply the plants with nutrients to make crops grow faster, use herbicides to control weeds so they don’t compete with the crops and pesticides to kill off insect pests that can eat the plants and lower production. Commercially Grown. Commercially-farmed food is how the majority of the food we eat is grown.

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