Recycling in the Bush
November 13th 2006 09:19
That Versatile Front-end loader
1. Feed all the suitable food scraps and many weeds to chooks – they will turn anything into eggs. Alternatively mix with sheep or cow manure and straw and make compost.
2. Burn a majority of paper in the wood heater so that with the scrap wood and fallen branches etc one will save on electricity to heat the water and the house.
3. Delegate a percentage of the wardrobe from the good clothes pile to the farm clothes pile and then to the rag pile.
4. Re-use and re-use the netting from a fence until it’s so twisted and out of shape that only small sections can be cut off it to give to the gardener of the house for a tomato plant trellis.
5. There are at least 50 extra uses for a piece of wire, a piece of baler twine (string) and old seed bags all of which could warrant be a story in itself.
7. Keep the item long enough - say 60-100 years and unload it onto the local Historical Society!
8. Then if all else fails, dump the rest in that big hole dug in the back gravel pit by that versatile front end loader, cover it up and hope that the next farmer to come along will enjoy being an anthropologist as he discovers just what "treasures" can be found and how the present farmer lived!
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