After a thorough cleaning with vinegar, Dawn, and baking soda, I had a perfectly good, stay-fresh container for my dogs and cats food and treats!

Re-purpose kitty litter buckets into strawberry pots. If you have cats and purchase kitty litter in the big buckets here is a nice way to re-purpose them into planters for strawberries. You can paint the buckets to be any color you would like and they turn out looking pretty nice.…

If you're a cat owner, you know just how many tubs of cat litter it takes to care for your kitty in a month. For most brands, those tubs are made of good

This exclusive is brought to you by the publishers of The New Pioneer magazine. You can subscribe to the quarterly magazine by visiting OutdoorGroupStore.com. Photos, Drawings & Story By Robin J. Miller Cat litter pails are sturdy containers with hinged lids that can hold a surprising amount of material: from toys to poultry grit to grains to oyster shells to assorted soil remineralization supplies. This rack converts bucket clutter into a useful tool. Cat litter pails may be available for…

photo by tgbdad My favorite tips from readers are practical ways they reuse and repurpose items in their homes. From linens to kitchen gadgets, these...

Guest blog by Gaby Galvin Linda Olson enrolled in the Howard County Master Gardener Program in January. The more she read and thought about it, Olson realized commercial self-watering systems, popular with container and small space gardeners, were extremely expensive and didn’t always work well. She did find a DIY self-watering system developed by the HGIC (UMD extension), but found it to be too costly and difficult to be practical. She decided to research a lower-cost method, and after much…

I LOVE 5 gallon buckets, well I THOUGHT I did until I found how how expensive they were. Then I found out how I could get FREE food grade buckets

Learn how to transform a kitty litter bucket into a beautiful plant container. Create a gorgeous garden decoration while keeping these buckets from going into landfills.

If you're following me on Pinterest then you've likely seen this DIY project from Curbly.com pinned to my boards: It's cute, right? I pinned it so I could come up with an upcycled version....and I did. Here it is: I swear it's lit, but it's really hard to see in the daylight! This was SO easy and the only thing I bought was the fuel. Here's what you need and what to do: ...it's that easy! Here's how it's upcyled: 1. I had this vase left over from a party that I threw years ago in my former…