Raising Gardens with Fallen Trees

This past Saturday, the Brennans and the Bradleys went to work building the frames for lasagna gardening. After trooping through the woods next to the Brennans' home to gather the fallen ash wood, they laid out the logs, cut them to the length they wanted (3 for each side - 12 in all), stacked them on top of each other, drilled down into all 3 layers, and then put bamboo stakes into the holes to hold them together.

Restaurant leftovers....what to do?

I mentioned at our Tuesday meeting that we have had some success with the Rubbermaid collapsible containers we bought for leftovers from restaurants. They are so flat...

...you can keep them in your purse. When it's time to take some of that food home...

...you just pop it open and put your leftovers in. I bought mine at Kroger, and you can also get them at K-Mart. One more step towards a no-styrofoam world.
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