Comments on: Win Solar Lighting from aHa!Modern Living

By: Teresa O'Connor

Teresa O'Connor — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:33:15 +0000

Bonnie: Your recycling program for school sounds fantastic, and you seem to be doing lots of good things for the earth. Sorry this contest has closed already, but we did welcome your comments. And I do hope you’ll visit again. Best, Teresa

By: Bonnie Neilson Atkins

Bonnie Neilson Atkins — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:45:56 +0000

Hi Teresa, my 11 yr old son and I have been running a recycling for cash thing for our cash strapped public school class, since he was in 4th Grade. This year the 5th and 6th grades all participated in recycling as another way to raise money to go to the bi-yearly Science Camp. In our own garden, we’ve released a few batches of lady bugs to eat the abundant crop of aphids we always seem to attract on my scented roses. We love watching butterflies and moths who are attracted to our ginormous butterfly bush in the backyard, its amazing how many hummingbirds are constant visitors too. My husband has replaced all our lights with the lower emission lights, I think they are LEDs, but I’m not totally sure. We water before the sun rises, I think twice a week, but more when the temperatures move up towards the triple digits. I can’t wait to visit more often, I like what I’ve seen so far 🙂

By: Teresa O'Connor

Teresa O'Connor — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:18:38 +0000

In reply to Tina Kozma.

Good for you, Tina. Lots of terrific ideas here. Thanks for entering this random drawing.

By: Teresa O'Connor

Teresa O'Connor — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:18:02 +0000

In reply to Michelle Cooper.

Michele: Your garden is going to love all that composted “black gold.” I bet you have less pests and pathogens this year. Thanks for entering.

By: Teresa O'Connor

Teresa O'Connor — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:15:39 +0000

In reply to Terry Chronister.

Terry, that’s great … a solar-powered greenhouse with zero emissions. Impressive! Thanks for entering.

By: Teresa O'Connor

Teresa O'Connor — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:14:31 +0000

In reply to Diane.

Terrific, Diana. The more we can recycle, the less waste we have to deal with… Really glad you liked my talk, and thanks for visiting Seasonal Wisdom. Good luck!

By: Teresa O'Connor

Teresa O'Connor — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:13:27 +0000

In reply to Brigitte.

Good for you, Brigitte! Thanks for entering this random drawing.

By: Tina Kozma

Tina Kozma — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:53:25 +0000

Green well we have composted for years , even before they called it green ,the garden grows so much better with compost, have always tried to conserve energy and water , by turning the furnace down and cleaning it and tuning it each year , am planning on rain barrels this year , so always living to be green .

By: Michelle Cooper

Michelle Cooper — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:08:48 +0000

I just started worm composting with a worm farm I made from a plastic storage container I found for 50 cents at a garage sale. I got a handful of worms from my friends worm farm and they are very happy eating my kitchen scraps. I rinse out all of my egg shells and easily crush them in my stone pestle and mortar and throw the eggshell dust in the worm bin. It’s supposed to be good for them to reproduce. I’m not sure why. Just started composting yard scraps too with large store bought composter and now have a place for my very large pile of dry leaves instead of the dumpster.

By: Terry Chronister

Terry Chronister — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:44:09 +0000

We are using a solar powered swamp cooler with thermostat to keep our greenhouse at optimal temp spring through summer. Love walking into the greenhouse knowing it’s running on zero emmision free energy!