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Use and Value Renewable Resources and Services
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<p><strong>“Let nature take its course”</strong></p>
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<p class="byline">Deb Hart-Serafini</p>
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<p isrender="true"><span style="line-height: 1.6em; background-color: initial;" isrender="true">There are excellent examples of this principle in the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ricestreetcommunitygarden/" isrender="true" style="line-height: 1.6em;">Rice Street Community Garden</a><span style="line-height: 1.6em; background-color: initial;" isrender="true">. The Garden is making active use of compost, cardboard, wood chips and horse manure. The principles of permaculture help us reduce the need for high maintenance or chemical inputs. Our objective is to employ renewable resources that are readily available.</span><br></p><p isrender="true">One bonus is that most of these amendments are FREE! Volunteers at the Garden bring cardboard and their organic kitchen waste and other volunteers bring truckloads of horse manure and wood chips. In addition to saving financial resources, the Garden is reducing the need for chemical fertilizer or herbicide inputs. Cardboard covered with wood chips makes a great weed-suppressing mulch! About 30% of all municipal waste is organic kitchen waste--so if we compost, we also save money on our taxes! </p><p isrender="true"><br></p><p isrender="true"><a href="https://www.bae.ncsu.edu/topic/composting/pubs/build-bin.pdf" target="_blank">Compost Bin Plans</a><br></p><p><br></p>
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