Using Your Resources

Community is super important. Getting to know the people in your community, what their talents are, what their needs are, etc. can help you as well as serve them. Here at Kindred Acres, we like to do a lot of bartering or trading for the things we need.....woodchips being one of them.

To create our no-dig food forest we needed woodchips. And lots of it. I signed up to the free mulch databases like chipdrop.com and leaflimb.com....but I went a step further. I called all the local tree companies in my area. I introduced myself to them, told them what our homestead was about and asked them personally to drop chips to us. We've gotten several loads of free woodchips and in exchange, we've given some of our delicious garden-fresh goodies. You see, the tree companies around here have to PAY to dump their woodchips at a landfill. Not only does that cost them, but it's soooo wasteful and these woodchips can get put to good use! When they have a free place to dump them that will put them to good use, like our homestead, they win and so do we! We get free chips (and save them from going to the landfill!! how wasteful!!), they don't have to pay to dump it....we get to grow delicious juicy foods, they get a taste of the foods they helped to grow! Do you see the full circle here?

Building community, using your resources, talking to people and truly getting to know them benefits not only you but the community as a whole!! Take the time to learn about the people around you. Find out their talents and needs. It might come in handy one day. ;)

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~Kindred Acres

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