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Showing posts with label reuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reuse. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2012

A must see free Documentary about dirt

This is amazing documentary about our planet and how it recycles everything, we can learn so much and I thought I should share this with you.
Enjoy this in the evening instead of watching some game show and be amazed and stunned what dirt and our planet can do.
This is the description to the movie:
DIRT! THE MOVIE is an astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet. Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth's climate. Why do we humans ignore, abuse, and destroy our most precious living natural resource? Consider the results of such behavior: mass starvation, drought, floods and global warming. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, DIRT! THE MOVIE tells the story of humans trying to reconnect to dirt -- the living skin of the earth. Traveling from the vineyards of California to the plains of Kenya, DIRT! reveals how repairing our relationship with dirt can create new possibilities for all life on earth.


ENJOY 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Buzzword Container Gardening. What is it really?

Container gardening can be done by everyone in almost every place or space. To make a long story short, instead of putting flowers into a big flower pot, you simply plant a veggie plant into it. If you want success, her some easy rules:
  • Make sure you plant something YOU like and can grow there, shady spots for shady lovers and sunny ones for sun lovers. Info can be found on seed packages. Easy isn't it?
  • Almost anything can be grown even inside with the help of cfl bulbs, you need ones with at least 6500k, k stands for kelvin and is a measure for light. 
  • Get some garden soil for you planters, that can be anything from a plastik bucket (reuse &recycle) or get some planter boxes or even make some from scrap none treated wood. It is important for your health that you only use NONE TREATED wood. The chemicals could spoil your soil and your plant and ends up in your system as you eat.
  • Convert unused space with racks into a nice gardening spot, a blank wall with lots of sun and old metal racks or whatever you have to convert it. You don't have to ruin your nice lawn for container gardening, isn't that cool?
You can have pretty much all year round some fresh veggies on your table that you harvested, empower yourself again. This skills are easy to learn and each year your crops will be better yielding because you start to really understand what you are doing.
Like I said, it can all be done low cost, just open your mind and imagination and you see your own potential again.
Good luck and like always here is a video of my city slicker porch in the core of Calgary.