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Best Reuse/Recycle Tip

UF Community Moderator — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:56:27 GMT

What is one of the best reuse/recycle tips you have discovered?

an odd idea of sorts

Bkelle186 — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:22:55 GMT

The other day I drove by an area where they are replacing the water lines. I saw the heavy plastic pipes they use and was thinking "How many pieces do they cut off the ends to make the pipes fit together?". I then thought that with a piece of the pipe perhaps 18-24" long would make a decent, although not easily moved, planter if stood up on end and filled it with potting soil. And to make it a little more attractive you could "wrap" the thing with sticks or twigs, or perhaps slats of wood to make it look like a barrel. You would have to place it, of course, on the bare earth and not on the concrete where if you did place it you would have a line of muddy water draining out the bottom every time it rained or you watered the plant(s) contained in it.

I also thought that you , If you had enough of them, could line them up and use them as a sort of "raised Garden" if filled with the garden soil.

Reuse cat hair

Bettie — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:21:14 GMT

This time of year our cats lose a lot of their hair. One cat in particulair, although he's a common European short hair. So, what to do with all this hair? (yes, I tried spinning, but the staple is too short to make a nice yarn)

After combing my cat, I place all his shedded hair in an open container and then attach this container to our garden fence. Around this time birds are nesting, and you guessed it: they love soft cat hair as lining for their nests! They even line up on our fence, waiting for their turn to pluck some of that hair. It's quite fun to see them fly off with a big 'beard' of cat hair.

Of course, any pet hair will do: cat, dog, rabbit, goat, sheep, ...

What materials do you recycle that other people might not?

UF Community Moderator — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:32:38 GMT

What materials do you recycle that other people might not?

Earth Day Tips

UFeditor — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:54:19 GMT

Hello! The Urban Farm editors are putting together a slideshow of green tips from our readers to celebrate Earth Day, and we need your help!

Please visit the UrbanFarmOnline.com home page and share what you do to reuse, recycle and upcycle. Tell us your tip March 30, and you could be featured in the slideshow.

how do you phrase it?

Estella Naparella — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:13:47 GMT

how do you phrase it when you ask for coffee grounds from the local coffee shop? do you collect them daily? weekly? Just how does one go about doing this?

TIA!

What’s in your compost pile?

UF Community Moderator — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:12:41 GMT

What’s in your compost pile?