Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

With the cold , wet weather there has not been much opportunity to garden. My thoughts lately have been on the layout of the garden and what materials to use for raised beds. I want to use salvaged lumber and any other materials I can get my hands on. So yesterday I built a seed starting bench in my garage from salvaged materials. I will use this bench to start seeds for the garden and for my backyard garden. It will be a mini-greenhouse of sorts with a heat mat and temp controller and lights on a timer.
For the raised beds at the garden I will need alot more material. Although I will puschase some soil to fill the beds, I plan to use alot of leaves that I can collect curbside around town. This will keep these bags out of the landfill and help build my soil. I also have access to cow and horse manure from friends to work into the soil. My hope is to someday reduse the amount of leaves that go to the landfill. Instead they should be recycled and reused in our community. In our own lanscape.