Former men’s room of what used to be an elementary school in Detroit; the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a charter high school for young mothers and pregnant teens, now calls the historic building home.
The property’s grounds feature a four-acre urban farm, which helps teach students about gardening, and enhances their skills sets.
The school, which allows students to “attend classes and care for their babies in a single environment,” was slated to be closed in 2011. Thanks to community members who rallied in support of the school, the school remains open today. Almost all the school’s graduates enroll in two- or four-year colleges.
Via The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit: Places: Design Observer. Photograph by Andrew Herscher.
Seems fitting to follow this earlier Unconsumption post about repurposed urinals with this one on fixtures-turned-planters-in-girls’-school!
Now here’s a creative new use for old handbags.
Note: If you have unwanted purses that are still usable, e.g., not torn/ripped, consider giving them away — perhaps to a friend, or to a local charity that accepts donations of such items — or sell them, instead of using them as garden accessories!
(Photo via Teresa O’Connor’s SeasonalWisdom blog)
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.” —Virginia Woolf
(image via SalvagedNature on Etsy)
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s wine bottles turned into planters — a great size for small succulents. Wine + reuse + container gardening = win!
The bottle-pots pictured here are from Bewley’s Rerun Productions.
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, look here.
Give your kid’s castoff a new life in the garden. Choose toys that’ll weather well and ones with dirt-friendly containers, like this Tonka metal dump truck.
(via Toy Planter | Turn Salvaged Junk Into Garden Ornaments | This Old House)
This reuse (on wheels!) might be better than the toolbox-turned-planter idea. Anyhow, it’s a fine addition to our container gardening ideas file.
Pallets repurposed to contain a compost pile.
Also: Plastic bottles used as planters.
Lots of reuse pictured here!
(photo via The Reuser: A study in reuse archive)
Old bike helmets = new planters
(via Ask Umbra: What should I do with my old bike helmet? | Grist. Photo source here.)
Related: From the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute: Answers to “When should I replace my helmet?” here.
Over the past several months, I’ve come across photos of this colorful courtyard in London where old barrels are used as planters — and am finally sharing one. Some of you maybe have been here — Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden?
(Photo via Rita Smith here.)
For barrels repurposed as bike racks and cabinets, among other items, see earlier Unconsumption posts here.
Pallets — wall mounted and repurposed as planters. ‘Nuff said.
(photo via Stacy K Floral)
Why not wrap empty milk cartons in scrap fabric — and use as planters?
I know. I know. I’ve been on a spring planting kick lately.
But this simple milk-carton-wrapped-in-fabric reuse idea from Camilla Fabbri of the Family Chic blog (mentioned previously here, here, and here) is worth sharing, especially this week, as some folks are looking at decor sorts of ideas for Easter.
