Marlborough sustainable action plan task force

MSAPTF meet today. City working with buisness and residents to make Marlborough a prime example of a green community.




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Glass Sponge

New material that allows cheap cleanup of water:

http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/01/11/swelling-glass-absorbs-toxins/

Better living through chemistry

Indoor plants best of 2009

With 2009 ending may websites are posting their best of 2009 lists. Lifehacker had an awesome one today detailing their top indoor plant projects for 2009:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/gardening/easy-lowmaintenance-plant-projectsbest-of-2009-104817

Greens week 3

After three weeks I have harvested the right side of his tray for salads. The is still a decent amount of plants on the harvested side that will grow bigger now that they have space to grow. I should be able to harvest 3-4 small salads a week for the next 3 weeks. After that I will let the last remaining plants go to seeds.

Worm composter

This is my worm composter. It has been up and running for 3 months now. It has been very easy to manage and upkeep. This one has 5 trays. I started using only the bottom tray. I ordered the worms online and they where overnighted to me. I mixed some kitchen craps with shredded newspaper (~40% scraps and 60% newspaper). I found that using my paper shreader to cut up the news paper which works better than ripping it up by hand. As I got more material I have filled up the top bigs. The top most big contains no compost material just "moist bedding". I feed compost into the composter about once a week, to the second to the top bin.(more if I end up cooking alot). Once a month I take the bottom bin and scoop out the dirt that is left behind from the worms. Since I feed the 2nd to top bin the food in the bottom bin at this point is 99% gone and the worms have worked their way up into the higher bins. I have to pick out a few worms from this tray and I store the dirt in a larger sealed plastic bin. This dirt is moist and very nutrient packed. I am using this dirt for my micro greens.


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Indoor organic gardening

Been a long time since I have updated this blog. I have decided to start blogging about several of my new indoor gardening projects. Below is the test bed for my micro greens grown on organic soil made from my worm composter. My overall project goal is to create a self sustaining system to create a comstant supplynof fresh organic produce


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