{"id":19187,"date":"2016-02-02T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=19187"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:26:12","slug":"garden-recycling-reusing-trash-grow-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/garden-recycling-reusing-trash-grow-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Recycling: Reusing Your Trash To Grow Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n For those in colder climes, Winter is the perfect time to start preparing for your next growing season. One thing you may want to start considering: how can you take items out of the trash and recycling bins, and reuse them in your garden.\u00a0Let\u2019s take a look at the largest contributors to the home garbage can, and how\u00a0“garden recycling” might be appropriate for them.<\/p>\n Food Packaging: <\/strong>Many packaging materials are perfect for repurposing in the garden. Buying in bulk, bringing your own containers and using cloth bags are great ways to lessen the amount of packaging that ends up in your recycling or garbage container, but you may still find your bin full of almond milk jugs, egg cartons, netting from onions and avocados, and foil trays.<\/p>\n Cardboard and Paper:<\/strong> Have lots of uses in the garden, so don\u2019t put this valuable resource into the recycling bin!<\/p>\n Food and Food Scraps:<\/strong> If you don\u2019t live with teenage garbage compactors, you may find yourself with leftover food that is better used for botulism testing. And even if you do have some hearty eaters in your family, you probably still have vegetable scraps and fruit peelings that need to go somewhere.<\/p>\n Think Big:<\/strong> Larger items take up more space in the landfill. So here are some ideas to repurpose those bigger pieces.<\/p>\n Get Creative:<\/strong>When getting rid of stuff, start thinking about how it can be repurposed.<\/p>\n What creative ways have you turned your waste into abundance?<\/p>\n When not looking at garden porn (also known as seed catalogs in politer circles), Sheila Haab explores permaculture concepts, dabbles in fermentation of sourdough and kraut, and immerses herself in the lives of tragic book characters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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