Brummet's Conscious Blog

In response to a lot of questions we've received, I thought I would write a series of articles (3) to answer your interest in how to go about greening a home and yard. We have been on this property for 3 years as of Oct 15, 2013. So I thought the best way to go about sharing what we did was to describe the order we did things in, one year at a time.  I hope this article series helps you in your own journey of greening your home and yard. * Part 1 of this article was  published on January 2nd ; Part 2 was  published on January 7th ... today is the final installment of this series. Year 3: Oct 15, 2012 – Oct. 15, 2013 Before winter came in, we closed in the front of the garage with an insulated wall and insulated automatic door. The other walls of the garage are covered only with corrugated plastic roof materials – however, we intend to cover them properly with siding to match the rest of the exterior and insulate them properly next...

-- Quote of the Day -- “…So there is no perfect choice… take peat for instance - a natural product harvested in Canada and Europe (and a few other places)… and when starting seeds it prevents damp off disease ( a fungus) …it is technically renewable – yet we consider it as a non-renewable product since it takes about a thousand years for a peat bog to grow a single yard of peat. …so we’ve come up with other things like coir – made from the outside of coconut shells, and rice hulls – But then you get people talking about the fact there is machinery used to harvest and convert these. …The better thing would be to not take things out of nature and hope that it gets replenished. Coir and rice hulls are things that we would have thrown away, so they are good alternatives to look at. ”   ~ Chris McLaughlin Today's quote was excerpted from a Sunday Gardening episode that featured Chris as a guest - She offered some fantastic advice about composting and greening...