lasagna gardening
n.— «Soil for a school garden was created on the property using a layering method called “lasagna gardening.” Newspapers that have been used for the Newspapers in Education program are soaked in water and spread on the garden for the first layer.» —“Community service lessons” Mining Journal (Marquette, Michigan) May 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Matt from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was puzzled when colleagues kept saying someone had stood up at a wedding, indicating that they’d been a member of the wedding party. The expression stood up in that sense is an Americanism going back about two...
A listener adds to our collection of slang used by RV enthusiasts. When she’s not in her sticks and bricks–that is, her brick-and-mortar home in Michigan–she’s driving around in her motor home chasing 70, which in the RV community means “trying to...