365 Days, 365 Ways...To Go Green

We had to remove the old patio from a house we are remodeling because it was lifting. Last year the resulting pile would have been garbage but today it's URBANITE! We carried, hauled and carried again a trailer full of patio chunks to our family home to make a border for our gardens. The rest we will use as a border for a garden at the remodel.

Urbanite I thought was a cute name that was a concoction of our Arizona permaculture group but it's actually in the encyclopedia as

a humorous description of recycled concrete, typically from old sidewalks or other flat concrete slabs removed during construction.

Not so sure why it's humorous but it's definitely versatile. Use it for patios, walls, and borders to name a few examples and keep it out of the landfills!