Greenhouse Made of Recycled 2 Liter Bottles

Last week in our AFM email, was a picture of a plastic bottle green house. I will include this photo again later in this blog. As customers of the Farmers' market, we assume that you want the best produce. Our vendors want to give you the best also. But the environment belongs to all of us on earth. Chuck Elias and his merry group of Shared Gardners would like to make use of the plastic bottles in Atchison to make one of these greenhouses at the Shared Garden at Chuck Elias's house.

Bring your 2 liter bottles to the Market for this interesting project. Bring them to the last EAST stall under the cover of the Farmers' Market. Chuck and his group are very committed to learning ways to help our environment and they are happy to share what they have learned. Spend a few minutes with him; he will show you what can happen with discarded plastics to both sea and land animals. Plastics are NOT biodegradable!! But they can be recycled. Atchison does have a recycle program for plastics; 2 bins are located on west Highway 73 at the north turn-off to Express Lube. Bring your empties to Chuck and help our environment.

The photo shows the entrance to a recycled bottle greenhouse. Each plastic 2 liter bottle is drilled to be threaded onto a 6 foot garden stake. These stakes (with bottles) are lined up to form walls. A wooden door, screens, and corners are attached along with a simple roof.