Mother Earth's Garden

Recycled crushed beer bottle pavement? Sounds crazy, but it’s true, and it’s very pretty, check out the photos.

Way prettier than your average black top.

The Morton Arboretum is testing a unique, new porous pavement made of crushed, recycled beer bottles, and other glass, with granite fragments mixed in. The result is what you see pictured above.
The program goes along with the Morton Arboretum decades-long commitment to protecting trees and the environment.
According to Kris Bachtell,Arboretum Director of Collections and Facilities:
“We are constantly looking for more sustainable techniques, systems, and products. This  FilterPave™ porous pavement may be the way of the …read more

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I’m always on the lookout for natural, organic nutrition for my plants, and garden. I get excited when I see a new product that is 100% natural, organic, and environmentally friendly. Cow Wow fits that description.
Cow Wow is a liquid poo compost made from nature’s finest fertilizer – dairy cow manure.
It’s a brand new product, the Cow Wow website just went live yesterday, so go visit and let them know what you think.
The scoop from Cow Wow:
Cow Wow NATURALLY provides immediate, balanced and total nutrition from macro-nutrients N-P-K, and over 81 essential micro-nutrients like manganese, boron, copper, iron, …read more

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