Sustainable Savings - My Chicken Diaries

Good Evening Everyone!

Suzanne King from My Chicken Diaries brought in some Egg-selent chicken ambassadors tonight!

These lovely ladies provided and visual aid during Suzanne's fascinating talk on chickens and how they can impact your life and health.

She let us know about the different chicken breeds and how they all have fun colors and egg sizes. She also showed us turkey and goose eggs!

Here is the difference between a goose egg and the starter egg from a young chicken. Wow! Such a size difference!

Thank you again Suzanne for such a wonderful Egg-perience!

- Ring Staff

Sustainable Savings - Merits of Keeping Bees

Good Morning!

We hosted the 3rd installment of sustainable Savings last night. The speaker was Robert Morrison of Those Bee Guys. He was fantastic, and we all thoroughly enjoyed his presentation. Here are some of the highlights from the program!

The Merits of Keeping Bees

            Importance of Bees in Society

·         $215 Billion Impact Globally

·         1/3 of what we eat are pollinated by bees

·         They give us honey!

·         Colony Collapse Disorder

o   Habitat loss

o   Pesticide Use

o   Parasite/Disease

o   Agricultural Practices

Making a difference

·         Plant Bee Friendly Plants

·         Avoid Insecticide Use, especially “systemic”

·         Go get some bees!

Keeping Your Own Bees

·         More Flowers, Veggies and Fruit

·         Honey

·         It’s a Blast!

Have a wonderful day!

-Ring Staff

Sustainable Savings - Composting

Good Evening!

Patti Suler, Master Gardener, spoke to us today about the fascinating world of Composting! It was great fun and we all learned quite a bit about the do's and don'ts about composting!

Have a nice evening!

- Ring Staff

Sustainable Savings - Solar Panels

Good Evening!

Last week on March 3rd we had Steve Stelzer, the Program Director of the City of Houston Public Works & Engineering Building code Enforcement Green Building Resource Center, came to Ring Neighborhood Library to speak about Solar Panels. Everyone had a wonderful time!

Thank you Steve!

- Ring Staff