I've2 for seats out around the chicken yards , 3 with strawberries in them out back , useing 4 kitchen sink discards for nest boxes in the hen houses ,,and a couple of old bathroom sinks also . Have an old bathtub in the duck pen. shucks recycling is a way of life around here .
Last year I spent about $50 in my 50 x 125 ft garden space - got i small cooking of snap beans and nothing else , the year before that it was worse , I built chicken yards in the garden spot and pay my son's seed bill and supply the tiller / planter / chicken compost and he does...
I do real estate repair for a living in a college town , and you wouldn't believe the things they just move out and leave in the house at the end of a quater . Lots and lots of kitchen stuff and clothes text books that the college bookstore will buy back , beer caigs ( deposit)and the...
We use them here inside , they won't work on a dusk till dawn switch in the outside fixtures , and the idiots in washington have outlawed regular bulbs after 2014 or so ,, so then what will we use to keep the pump and chicks warm in winter , I'm tired of this NANNY syndrome...
I'm just across the line here in south Ga. and neither will work here ,, got too many shade trees for solar and wind enough to do any good for power only happens during storms . Even back in the 'good old days ' there were very few windmills around here they had to use hand...
I just built 2 connected chicken houses here in South Ga . and used old deck flooring for the walls with 1 inch spaces between them and am going to open up the plastic bags and staple them on the sides this winter .