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Yoga Yoga: "Locally Om'd" Green Business

  • Yoga Yoga Green Business
  • April 20, 2012
Yoga is one of the hottest trends in the country today as it provides both physical and spiritual benefits to practitioners. Austin is lucky to...
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How to maintain your compost

  • Maintaining a compostt bin
  • August 25, 2011
The key to producing excellent compost is to maintain your bin in such a way that the items that you have placed into it successfully break down....
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What should I put into my compost?

  • Acceptable compost ingredients
  • August 20, 2011
The ideal compost recipe should include a fifty-fifty combination of nitrogen-rich additions and carbon-rich additions. The first category includes...
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City of Austin Announces 2011 Free Composting Class Schedule

  • Austin compost classes
  • May 13, 2011
The City of Austin's Solid Waste Services Division has announced the schedule for their free composting classes for the summer of 2011. The...
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What is Composting?

Composting is one of those words that you hear often in the course of discussions concerning sustainability and waste reduction. Now you want to...
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Compost Horse Manure

Do you have a slowly growing mountain of manure somewhere in the vicinity of your barn? If you haven't noticed already, there is a lot going on...
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How to make your own garden compost bin for free

If you do not have a $80 - $200 dollars to spend on a composter from Lowe's or Home Depot, I have some information for you on how you can make a...
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Health benefits of unsulphured blackstrap molasses and plants

Vitamin Rich Unsulphured Molasses Photo: AP/spork_incident Austin is a very health conscious town and unsulphured black strap molasses is one of...
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February Gardening in Central Texas

February is when spring gardening really gets going in Central Texas. It might be hard to get motivated, but remember every day without gardening...
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Common Composting Problems

The compost pile is the center of the garden. The "brown gold" it produces can make or break your garden this spring. However, many times...
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