moose eater
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I pee on my chokecherry and McFarland lilac trees for the N value, and if the chokecherries get to be too much of a worry for me, knowing that the 'cherries' and branch tips of the chokecherries might poison the moose, especially calves, during the first frosts of Fall, I'll maybe build a 7-ft. tall moose fence around them like I did for my main veggie garden if I live long enough and my hip leaves me alone a bit.
And we compost most of our veggie scraps as well as coffee grounds and filters, tea bags, etc.
My wife has stopped buying so much plastic, instead buying Pyrex storage containers with snap-on lids, and she recycles our egg containers as veggie and flower start trays for the bedding plants in the Spring (like, this season we're in right now).
We save aluminum cans, and every 3-4 55-gallon trash bags of uncrushed aluminum cans we trade in at the metals buyer, I can buy a six-pack or so of craft beer ... in aluminum cans... or bottles.. (We don't get much money for recyclables here, in part due to the shipping distances to the Lower-48 States).
We take functional gear or items to the reuse area at the local transfer station where we dump the trash but leave the reusable items for others under the pavilion the Borough provides there for that specific purpose... Reuse. (*Back in the later 1970s and early 1980s, I knew some who had built cabins mostly from recycled items from the reuse areas and dumpsters. Literally. It was post-pipeline construction and back then it was even more amazing than now what some would throw out to the trash).
We maintain the shit out of ALL of our vehicles, whether motor vehicles, boats motor(s) or ATVs and snowmobiles, so as to not continue to add shit, directly or indirectly, to the junk yards or landfills.
We make sure not to use carcinogenic sprays etc. on the property, to protect ourselves and others, as well as wildlife and domestic critters from toxins as much as possible. Ant spray is the worst we use, and that's limited to the house foundation and backfill around the foundation as a rule, and typically every 5-10 years, as the stuff remains effective..
We don't harvest more fish or meat than we can eat, and we take care of it properly, so that none goes to waste.
These are simple things we do for our place on the planet, that also, oddly enough, assists in increasing or raising our quality of life directly more often than not.
And we compost most of our veggie scraps as well as coffee grounds and filters, tea bags, etc.
My wife has stopped buying so much plastic, instead buying Pyrex storage containers with snap-on lids, and she recycles our egg containers as veggie and flower start trays for the bedding plants in the Spring (like, this season we're in right now).
We save aluminum cans, and every 3-4 55-gallon trash bags of uncrushed aluminum cans we trade in at the metals buyer, I can buy a six-pack or so of craft beer ... in aluminum cans... or bottles.. (We don't get much money for recyclables here, in part due to the shipping distances to the Lower-48 States).
We take functional gear or items to the reuse area at the local transfer station where we dump the trash but leave the reusable items for others under the pavilion the Borough provides there for that specific purpose... Reuse. (*Back in the later 1970s and early 1980s, I knew some who had built cabins mostly from recycled items from the reuse areas and dumpsters. Literally. It was post-pipeline construction and back then it was even more amazing than now what some would throw out to the trash).
We maintain the shit out of ALL of our vehicles, whether motor vehicles, boats motor(s) or ATVs and snowmobiles, so as to not continue to add shit, directly or indirectly, to the junk yards or landfills.
We make sure not to use carcinogenic sprays etc. on the property, to protect ourselves and others, as well as wildlife and domestic critters from toxins as much as possible. Ant spray is the worst we use, and that's limited to the house foundation and backfill around the foundation as a rule, and typically every 5-10 years, as the stuff remains effective..
We don't harvest more fish or meat than we can eat, and we take care of it properly, so that none goes to waste.
These are simple things we do for our place on the planet, that also, oddly enough, assists in increasing or raising our quality of life directly more often than not.
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