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A 5 gallon bucket is an incredibly useful thing to have around your garden, home or homestead. There are hundreds of different ways to make use of one. So, whether you buy them new, or, better yet, reuse, recycle or re-purpose ones that were used as containers for something that you bought, they can be very useful things to have around. To inspire you to make full use of your 5 gallon bucket, here are 50 brilliant uses that you might like to try: 5 Gallon Bucket Ideas for … [Read more...] about 50 Brilliant Uses For a 5 Gallon Bucket

When your primary heating source is wood, you find yourself cleaning out the wood stove quite a bit during those colder months of the year. Before long you’re dumping out your ash bucket once or twice a week. But where? What do you do with all of that ash? Let’s help you put a dent in those buckets of powdery gray byproduct. The resulting ashes and chunks of charcoal are packed with minerals. Plus its natural alkalinity and mildly abrasive texture make wood ash a workhorse around … [Read more...] about 45 Practical Uses For Wood Ash Around the Home and Garden

An eggshell is more than just a useful container for the nutritious yolk and egg white inside: it is a prime example of nature's perfect packaging. Eggshells are beneficial for us too, consisting of 95% calcium carbonate, making them very similar to our own bones and teeth. It comes as no surprise then, that eggshells help to strengthen our bones and protect our tooth enamel. If we only used the shells, rather than throwing them out! You may not have heard it yet, but just as you … [Read more...] about 15 Brilliant Uses For Eggshells In The Home & Garden + How To Eat Them