The Digital Homesteader (Beta)

The farther I go, the more I am looking at things for the purpose or recycling and doing my garden as inexpensively as possible. Today I found just one more thing that I can do for free, and it helps me and not some land fill.

Today I was delivering a coffee for my wife (it was one of THOSE mornings) and I started to look at the stir stick that I used to stir in her half-n-half. All wood and just the right length and width to use as a plant marker. I grabbed my favorite pen and listed the plant and for fun drew a little picture. I don’t think I will do the picture going forward, just too small. But, this is a great way to use something that you might normally throw in the trash and doing something useful with it. My coffee came from Starbucks and I know that they really work hard to recycle and reuse. My old coffee cups are becoming the pots for my starter plants (more on that later).

You don’t have to be a radical environmentalist to preserve the earth. It is really all of these little things that add up. If for no other reason, its something that you can do to help your garden for free.  But the end results are that these don’t help pack our landfills. As a wood product they are bio-degradable and they can just be buried in the garden at the end of the season.