Everyone is talking about going green. Well we have been green for the past 25 years at my parents home. Behind our house we have a building that has our Radiant Heating system in it. It not only heats our house but also all of our hot water we use.
There are 55 gallon barrels at every downspout from our guttering so when it rains, the barrels fill up. At the bottom of each barrel, there’s a spigot that is attached to soaker hoses that go through our landscaped plants and if it doesn’t rain enough, we just turn the soaker hoses on and water everything. There’s stuff you can put in the barrels that keeps mosquitoes from breeding in them and it also won’t hurt the plants either .
All the junk mail we get is sorted through, shredded and added to our compost bins along with any scraps we have like banana peeling or any other fruit or vegetable peelings. We always have rich dirt for my flower boxes on Moms porch rails. It’s not that hard to most of what we do so you might want to take some of these things we do and do them too.