Catalog Choice and Papercrete

Dudley L. passed on the information about a website that lets you choose which catalogs you don't want to receive in the mail anymore (and save paper and trees!).  It's called CatalogChoice.org.   It's a free service.   All you do is register your name and then go through and check off all/just the catalogs you don't want cluttering up your mailbox.  It's quite user friendly.  The companies like it too because they don't want to waste money sending catalogs to people who don't want them.   And I figure, if there occasionally is a product I want from one of those companies I deleted, I can always find the information online.   Some catalogs (like seed catalogs) we still want and can still get with this selective service.  They contact the companies after you list them.  And you can change or update it at any time.
 
And for all the other paper clutter that seems to accumulate, I'm making papercrete turkey nest houses.  They sort of look like adobe and are from biodegradable materials.  They will be cute round houses...like little mushrooms.  We also just finished a wattle bamboo fence to sheild the turkeys from the winter winds.   Frank harvests the bamboo, throws it to the sheep who eat the leaves off it (great winter forage for livestock!), and then I weave the straight stalks into fencing and just fasten the top rung with split cane (wire would do too if needed).  I'll be submitting my attractive poultry designs (including my solar heaters for birds) to some poultry magazines when I get some pictures of them and write it up.   I'll send some photos to you all too.  Chickens and turkeys are an intergral part of organic gardening for us with their natural pest control.  But there's no reason why their housing can't be a part of the attractive garden design too.