I'm that neighbourhood weirdo who went around my 'hood, with little leaflets, asking for unwanted fish parts/meat bones/coffee grinds donations for my gardening purposes. I have no shame when it comes to trying to source free useful stuff for my gardening efforts.

#FrugalGardening #FreeIsMyFavePrice

@PhoenixSerenity

We wanted large sheets of cardboard to kill weeds and the best source of them is bike shops, who always have a lot of huge empty boxes in a dumpster. The one near us has a locked dumpster but they were happy to have us carry away the cardboard and they let us borrow the key.

@richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

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