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Green Tip and Trade

Compost your food scraps!

Matt Berger Nov 24, 2010

Compost food scraps instead of throwing them away. If you do not have a compost bin, dig post holes, fill them with compost-able scraps, then cover them with dirt. They will enhance your soil’s quality for a spring vegetable garden!

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