Garden chores for February

It's February, but everyone knows it's never too early to get things ready for the spring's garden! For this blog we have compiled our list of chores to get done this month for your perfect spring garden!

1) Finish ordering your seeds! It's hard to think about it, but with shipping time included you need to get finished ordering your seeds for this spring. Get those orders in so you can get started with the next chore!

2) Start appropriate seeds indoors. If you seed can get started early indoors hop on it! Late February/Early March is a great time to start those seedlings for transplant in the spring!

3) Prune Trees & Shrubs. Every plant needs a pre-spring trim, so now is a great time to get it done if you didn't get a chance to yet!

4) Beginning planning and getting things in order for your compost/fertilizer needs. Especially if you are planning on getting a specific brand remember how quickly they seem to go during busy season so if you start planning now you can get everything in order!

5) Finally just keep your houseplants in order! It can be easy to let them slip a little when planning for outdoor, but just don't forget about those ones!

With these tips it will be easy to get prepared for the Spring planting season!

Our Work With Education

We're happy to work with people from all sectors, but recently we got a chance to visit a couple of schools who are currently working to implement GreenRU in their school Cafeterias. Today we just wanted to share with you this snapshot we got of one of the workers at Pella Community School District.

Reuse DIY

Today we're sharing a very helpful reuse DIYs that we found. This great article shares 50 new uses for old things. It's a great guide to finding brand new uses for thing that may be sitting around your house. Check it out here.

Our favorites from the article are:

Toilet Paper Hair Accessory holder

Matchbox as a mini sewing kit

Rubberbands to secure clothing on hangers

Old Mailing labels as return labels for books, movies, ect.

Old tissue boxes for plastic bags

There are a lot of other great ideas in there! Which are your favorites? Let us know in the comments.

GreenRU & Hy-Vee

We're not a big fan of bragging, so we'll let other people do it for us. We do some great work at two Hy-Vee locations, and that work was recently featured on the Iowa Grocery Industry Association newsletter!

Here's just a taste of the article:

"We started [diversion with GreenRU] because it was the right thing to do," says Max Dains, South Ottumwa Hy-Vee store director. "The departments have really gotten into it and are doing more than we asked of them. Everyone understands it's what should be done and what needs to be done."

Wow! Want to read more? You can! Check it out here.