It's Photo Friday Again!

  For this Photo Friday we’re doing a little feature on a DIY project we’re trying in the office. We recently re-pinned a tutorial on Pinterest that teaches you how to take old 2-liter bottles and turn them into self-watering, seed starter pots. It’s a great way to use up some of that old plastic and it works really well! For ours, instead of starting out little vegetables, we planted a small Blue Moneywort. It is a cute little crawling plant that does great along the bottom of flowerbeds as well as hanging baskets. Its small blue-violet flowers are really lovely to look at. We planted this little guy with some soil, and of course compost, about a week ago and so far it has been thriving. Thanks to Skruben.blogspot.com for the great tutorial! Here is the link to their tutorial: http://skruben.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-self-watering-seed-starter-pots.html

Photo Friday

Hello! It's Friday again, which means time for another photo! Today's photo comes from last weekend's Yard and Tree Waste Free Day in Ames! Did you see us there? We were very impressed with these two bikers from Cycles Recycling who brought in yard and tree waste in the greenest way!

Photo Friday

Happy Friday, everyone. Today's photo was taken earlier this week, early in the morning. What do you think?

Make sure to share your favorite shots from this week in the comments!

Photo Friday

Well, it's Friday again, and we will definitely take rain over snow! The snowfall we had yesterday thankfully melted quickly and it's been all rain since!

Did you get any great snap shots this week? Be sure to share them in the comments!

Photo Friday

Happy Friday everyone! The high here is forecast at 65 degrees! What a turn around from last week! Next week our Wood Waste site is opening in Ames, IA, so we thought we would show you a picture of our wood grinder!

Be sure to share your favorite photos from the week in the comments!

Photo Friday

Well, we made it through another chilly week in Iowa, which means it's friday once again! The first day of Spring was this week. What do you think, does it look like Spring outside?

We don't think it does! Here's to hoping the second week of Spring is a little more like a lamb and a little less like a lion! 

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Happy friday everyone! Our forecast includes some warmer weather this weekend so far- so we're excited for that! Today's photo includes our dredging work!

Photo Friday

Happy Friday again! We're certainly looking forward to the warm (if rainy) weather we have in store for the weekend! Today's photo is nice and bright looking, we're hoping the weekend is just as warm and bright as this photo looks!

Photo Friday

Happy Friday everyone! Today held more snow for us after all. We have to admit, it does make a pretty picture. However, we're more than ready for Spring to arrive!

Photo Friday

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you all are doing well and that the weather hasn't got you down too much! Today's photo is a small sampling of what we got from the storm that covered most of Iowa last night. Be sure to share your photos in the comments! 

Photo Friday

Hello Everyone, and happy Friday! This week's photo comes from our Dodge City Office! Check it out:

Photo Friday

Hello everyone, and happy Friday! This friday morning is pretty foggy here in Central Iowa, but we'll let you be the judge yourself with our photo friday post!

Photo Friday

Hope all of you had a great week! Here's this week's photo!

Photo Friday

Hope all of you had an enjoyable and relaxing holiday week! We managed to snap this week's photo outside of our office the day after Christmas, when it was pretty chilly outside!

Did you catch a great shot this week? Be sure to share it in the comments!

Top 5 posts of 2012

Hopefully you're all getting ready to enjoy 2013! We are excited for the new year, but we're also looking back at the one that has past. At the end of May, 2012 we started seriously blogging, and so we wanted to take this post to look back at our top 5 posts of 2012(based on post views)! Here's to hoping we have plenty of popular posts to pick from in 2013!

1. June 25: Gardening Inspiration

This post looked into the amazing and interesting world of vertical gardens! When looking back, it isn't hard to believe this post is popular. It's inspiring, especially to our readers who might live in more urban areas and can't plant a huge backyard garden.

2. June 29: Photo Friday

                  

This photo friday is simply of a flower near Iowa City. It's beautiful and simple, and captures an Iowa summer. 

3. September 17: Top 15 T-Shirt DIYs

This post was a collection of DIY projects that focused on upcycling old t-shirts! Fun and easy, these DIYs got a lot of traffic and it's easy to see why looking back.

4. August 13: Featured Article: A Green Business Rating System, Created by Middle School Students

This article was another sustainability article that got a lot of traction! It's definitely a good read, and proves that even the young generation is concerned about sustainability.

5. Jun 13: GreenRU Helps Student's Compost Crusade

This story occurred in Iowa, and it's inspiring to see a young woman take such and ardent intrest in reducing her school's waste stream! If you haven't checked out Lilly's story we'd definitely recommend taking a second to read it now.

Photo Friday

This week the weather has started acting like it normally does during Iowa winters. This photo was snapped during the light flurries we got on Monday this week. We thought it looked pretty with just the trees covered in white! 

Did you snap any great photos this week? Upload them into the comments section!

Photo Friday

This week we had our grinder up at our Headquarters, and we snapped a couple of pictures of it doing its thing! Check it out!

Did you snap any great pictures this week? Be sure to share them here in the comments!

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Happy friday everyone! Hope you're all having a good start to December with these unusually warm temperatures, although we're kind of missing the snow we're used to! However, we still fondly remember green grass!

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Happy friday everyone! Hope you've had a great week. While it's been mild, we've still had early morning frosts, so pictures like today's reminds us of warmer months! 

Did you snap any great shots this week? Be sure to share them in the comments!

Photo Friday

Happy Friday everyone! Hopefully you're not too full from yesterday to check out this week's photo!

If you snapped any great Turkey day shots be sure to post them in the comments!