This week, the pigs have been eating a truck load of acorns. Friends who live in a neighborhood with many established trees collect their acorns and save for us. Rather than a landfill we get happy pigs!
We collect leftover bread, trimmings from vegetables, pulp from juicer bars and stale baked goods. All of it done with consent of the owner, packaged and coordinated for our retrieval times. Avoiding the landfill.
Close to us is a place that puts out furniture. Usually ugly, worn out, beat up. But many times still good. This piece will get new laminate on top, have a few pieces removed, painted and then into use on the farm.
We still go to stores. But less and less. Working to find other ways to get what we need...
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Hi ... after reading about your recycling, I saw this post on Craigslist-Harrisburg, posted under For Sale/Wanted-Free Stuff. It was posted on 9/24.
ReplyDelete"Free Pig Food (Hershey)
Date: 2012-09-24, 6:30PM EDT
m757t-3294057570@sale.craigslist.org
Kitchen scraps from a commercial kitchen available if you can pick up every Friday. Anywhere from about forty to a hundred pounds per week right now, possibly much more if you are reliable. Consists of produce trimmings, browned lettuce, rice, pasta, stale bread, beans, leftover steamed vegetables, bagels, etc. Looking for someone who can supply a container with an airtight lid to accumulate the scraps in during the week and commit to reliably picking it up every Friday around noon to 1:00. If you are interested and are able to commit to picking it up every week, please send your name, number and a good time to call you. Thanks.
thanks for the link! just sent them an email, would love to pick up from them!
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