Friday Afternoon Linkages–Some Fun, Some Scary

October 10, 2008

...on the left. Meanwhile, in a busy month of blogging, the intrepid urban homesteaders over at Ramshackle Solid show you how to make depression style candles, sweet potato and yam chips, and acorn flour. All great projects for our world’s ongoing “deleveraging”. And, speaking of deleveraging, on the oooooh, scary we’re all going to die side of the equation: David Khan of Edendale Farms has a video from peak oil partisan Matthew Simmons on a run on t...

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Getting started with worms

Mrs. Homegrown

August 29, 2014

Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...or leak. Many people find a place for a small bin in the kitchen, perhaps under the sink. They also can go in places like laundry rooms and basements and garages. Some worm bins are purely functional, others quite attractive. Let’s break down some of these factors: Indoor or outdoors? Worm bins can also stay outside, with a few caveats. Worms like temperatures similar to the temperatures we humans enjoy. They don’t like being hot or freezing cold...

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Self-watering terracotta seed-starters!

Mrs. Homegrown

June 13, 2013

Miscellaneous

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...or a day or two of neglect. Starting seeds in a self-watering container makes a whole lot of sense. These containers can go up to a week between waterings. Even better, Anne’s seed starters are made out of terracotta instead of plastic. We’ve tried out her 6-pack model. It’s really cute, and it worked like a charm. Now she’s doing a Kickstarter so she can move her business, Orta, out of the garage and produce a technically more complex 12-pack see...

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Made in the shade- Passive cooling

Homegrown Neighbor

September 28, 2009

Domesticus

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...st the walls of the house serves the same purpose by also blocking the highest angles of the sun. I chose to employ this technology and give myself more growing space by building an arbor on the back of my house. This shades the back of my house and makes it look much nicer at the same time. I have planted hardy kiwi on it. The kiwi will help to provide shade, give me tasty fruit, and because it is deciduous, it will die back in the Winter to allo...

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Saturday Linkages: Squirrels, Sharks and Nudists

Mr. Homegrown

December 7, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...e between two popular nudist resorts Shark Bites Google Fiber Optic Cables Undersea Ammo can power supply Building a Soil Sifter / Rotary Trommel I just interviewed the untaggable Dave Eggers, who told me he: *Lives without WiFi or a smartphone *Writes on a 14-year-old laptop with no internet connection *Checks his email once, daily, from the library …and now I have new life goals. — Brian EdwardsTiekert (@bedwardstiek) December 3, 2019 The mornin...

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