My wife Liz met with Beth Mancuso on Cleveland’s near west side. She is the “Queen of Recycling.” For her organic garden, she obtained a mixture of aged sawdust and manure from the Cleveland Mounted Police Stables. She noted that if she grows her own vegetables (for a family of four), there is less impact on the environment because tractors don’t have to plow and trucks don’t have to transport the produce. Beth also uses recycled coat hangers for cucumber vines and recycled computer boxes are used for cold frames in her backyard greenhouse. Recycled plastic jugs, filled with water dyed black, are used for solar heating within the greenhouse. (I couldn’t help but think how much saner it would be environmentally, if there were more Beth Mancusos out there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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