How To Grow Baby Ginger http://buff.ly/2okz5n1 Grow your own abundant amount of baby ginger at home in your backyard...

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8 ways to make healthy organic soil for your garden:

8 ways to make healthy organic soil for your garden:
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Turning a container home from salt-stained rust bucket into a compact home takes time, effort, and money… but...

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Turning a container home from salt-stained rust bucket into a compact home takes time, effort, and money… but results can be as spectacular as they are compact.
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THE GREENHOUSE OF THE FUTURE - OFFICIAL TRAILER

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THE GREENHOUSE OF THE FUTURE - OFFICIAL TRAILER
TheAnacondaProd
Oct 4, 2014

More infos on: http://greenhouseofthefuture.com
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21 Genius Ways To Use Ice Cube Trays http://buff.ly/2nVyfJw Ice cube trays that you do not use or find at a thrift...

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21 Genius Ways To Use Ice Cube Trays http://buff.ly/2nVyfJw Ice cube trays that you do not use or find at a thrift store are perfect for many of DIY projects. Check out all the creative ways to use them!

Build Your Own Potato Growing Box (Effective Method to Produce a Large Quantity of Potatoes) http://rgn.bz/hMQa

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Build Your Own Potato Growing Box (Effective Method to Produce a Large Quantity of Potatoes) http://rgn.bz/hMQa

Don’t you mean potato grow box? Nope, that’s not a typo. As the areas of my garden devoted to perennials has gradually increased, the need to use the remaining space more efficiently has become more important. Using trellises and other vertical growing methods greatly help in this challenge.

Though my first attempts at growing potatoes the last couple of years has been successful, it took up a fair portion of the raised bed(s) they were growing in. This year, I am again doing another “first” – growing potatoes vertically. The “potato box” or “spud box” has become an effective method to produce a large quantity of potatoes in a small space. The idea is ingenious – forcing the potato plant to “stretch” upward as it grows allows more area of the plant to produce potatoes.

The potato “growing” box is just that – a series of frames that stack, or grow, as the potato plant grows. I like to look at the frames as resembling the floors of a building. In this project, our potato “building” will be six stories tall.

The list of things you’ll need:

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These indoor plants can filter the air you breathe at home while providing medicinal benefits | Galactic Connection

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5 natural alternatives for home improvement products to keep toxins out of your home

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Go green atop your home!

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Yarrow herb is a healthier, safer alternative to DEET - a toxic pesticide.

Yarrow herb is a healthier, safer alternative to DEET - a toxic pesticide.

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Off-grid living: learn how to harvest rainwater on a budget...

Off-grid living: learn how to harvest rainwater on a budget...
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Importance Of Growing Organic Vegetables - Why To Grow - Organic Vegetables Growing Tips

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Sustainable Farming, easy way of planting tomatoes in the food forest the

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#CleaningNatural

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Ten Tips for Creating Beautiful Gardens

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How To Make Old Fashioned Tallow Soap

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19 Ways To Use Castile Soap For Cleaning http://buff.ly/2mdyq2i Castile soap is the go-to cleaner because it's...

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19 Ways To Use Castile Soap For Cleaning http://buff.ly/2mdyq2i Castile soap is the go-to cleaner because it's effective, toxin-free, and budget-friendly.

Magical Mason Jar Oil Lamp DIY http://buff.ly/2nb2Hjc Making a mason jar oil lamp is a cheap alternative to buying...

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Magical Mason Jar Oil Lamp DIY http://buff.ly/2nb2Hjc Making a mason jar oil lamp is a cheap alternative to buying expensive candles. These lamps are really easy to make and will make a perfect decorative item.

Backyard Chickens 101

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Backyard Chickens 101
MOTHER EARTH NEWS and Friends
Mar 11, 2014

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Whether you're raising chickens in your backyard or running a larger scale operation, GRIT Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Hank Will, explains the basics of what you should know to succesfully raise backyard chickens from brooder to coop. Backyard chickens not only provide your family with fresh meat and eggs, but they can help reduce the number of common pests around the farm.

More on Backyard Chickens from MOTHER EARTH NEWS: Any brooder must be designed to minimize stress, since stress drastically reduces the chicks' immunity, making them susceptible to diseases they might otherwise resist. Stress is minimized by making sure the chicks are neither too cool nor too warm; have a clean, safe environment; are provided sufficient space for their numbers; and can always find feed and water.

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The Quick & Easy Way To Tap A Maple Tree For Syrup http://rgn.bz/DIPe

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When it comes to sweet delectable gifts given to us from nature, maple syrup ranks as one of the best. Tapping maple trees for sap and making it into syrup is a surprisingly simple process, can be done at any scale, and is achievable by anyone with access to maple trees and a few basic supplies.

The Basics of How Tapping Works

The rudimentary science goes something like this: the natural fluids inside trees tend to remain dormant during the cold of winter, but begin to rise and fall between the roots and branches when spring arrives. This brief period, during which the temperature rises well above freezing during the day but continues to dip back to cold overnights, is the best time to extract the fluid — or sap — from the tree by way of tapping it.

The way to do this is to drill a hole through the bark in order to access the sap, insert a specialized funnel-shaped spout called a “spile,” and hang a bucket under the spile to collect the liquid.

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#Honeybees provide #honey, #beeswax for candles, waterproofing and more.

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#Honeybees provide #honey, #beeswax for candles, waterproofing and more.

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How To Feed Your Family Without Any Soil Or Space http://rgn.bz/GKaE

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Growing hydroponically sounds complicated and expensive, but it’s actually neither. All that it means is that you’re growing your plants without soil. I’ve seen examples of hydroponic systems made out of our favorite tool ever – a 5-gallon bucket.

I’ve also seen systems that are exactly what you imagine – tables and tables full of fancy equipment and mysterious-looking tools and chemicals.

Just like anything else, it’s just a matter of how complicated you really want to get.

Let me give you a quick rundown of what it’s all about though, and why you should consider it, then we’ll talk about why it’s a great partner for vertical gardening.


As we already determined, you don’t use soil. The entire system is based on the concept that the roots are freely flowing in the water. They’re not packed tightly in soil. Hydroponic plants grow 30-50 percent faster than their soil-grown sisters, are generally healthier, and produce more fruit.

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21 Practical Ways To Use Gabions http://buff.ly/2n3ygKT There are many, many ways to use gabions and they are a...

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21 Practical Ways To Use Gabions http://buff.ly/2n3ygKT There are many, many ways to use gabions and they are a rather simple and inexpensive structure to build. Explore your options.

Why Vertical Gardening Works for Preppers http://rgn.bz/y8aF

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As preppers, we all share the common goal of being able to take care of ourselves and our families in worst-case scenarios.

Having a ready supply of nutritious food is most certainly at the top of that list. And since we don’t all have the acreage (or even the yard) to grow a huge, traditional garden, enter vertical gardening!

Vertical gardening is exactly what the name implies – you’re growing your plants vertically instead of on a flat surface (the ground). This is great because it allows for growing fresh produce even if you don’t have any space other than a wall or a porch. You can even grow a vertical garden inside!

Grows Anywhere

Whether you have a fence around your yard or you only have a space on the porch or even a wall inside your house, you can grow a vertical garden. Living in urban areas doesn’t mean that you can’t grow your own food – it just means that you have to get creative about it.

If you have even a little bit of a yard, you’ll be surprised how much you can grow using the vertical gardening method – the options are practically limitless. You can even grow plants out the top AND bottom of the planters!

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101 Gardening Secrets the Experts Never Tell You

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10 Things You Should Immediately Throw Away To Stay Healthy!

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10 Things You Should Immediately Throw Away To Stay Healthy!
 
Given below are the 10 things that you can definitely discard from your house for staying healthy.
 
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Food Preservation in Early Virginia

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Food Preservation in Early Virginia
VirginiaFarmBureau
Apr 3, 2013

Our forefathers took specific and difficult steps to preserve food following the harvest, and those methods can be used today. More at http://vafarmbureau.org.
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Heirloom Seeds (How to collect and store)

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Heirloom Seeds (How to collect and store)
Tim Farmer
Jun 13, 2015

Tim sits down at the Harvest Cabin with Brenda to learn:
What are heirloom seeds?
What is the difference between heirloom/organic/hybrid?
How do you harvest seeds?
How do you store them?

As well as some fun seeds she has collected and their fascinating histories.

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The rise of urban farming

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The rise of urban farming

Urban farming's trendy frugality is drawing converts in an age of economic uncertainty.

Greg Peterson's 1950s tract home looks like any other house on his block in Phoenix, with one notable difference: Practically everything in his yard is edible. More than 70 fruit trees reach for the sky. Chickens patrol for bugs in the yard. Late summer tomatoes, okra, and herbs such as basil and oregano punch fragrance into the air. Rain and gray water are harvested for watering, and solar panels on his house convert the sun's rays into energy.

Mr. Peterson calls his oasis of bounty on one-third of an acre "The Urban Farm." Once an anomaly among the manicured lawns in his neighborhood, Peterson's place has been so convincing an example over the past decade that scores of other suburban dwellers have traded decorative bushes for raised vegetable beds and straw-filled chicken coops.

"I started offering tours and classes at The Urban Farm every first Saturday [in 2001]. There were Saturdays where I would wait twiddling my thumbs ... for people to show up," Peterson recalls. "Now it is nothing for me to get 250 people ... for four different tours."

Meet the urban homesteader. Slowly, across the past decade, more Americans like Peterson have been proving that growing and preserving food is possible in all kinds of populated settings. City dwellers are practicing sustainable living at new levels beyond shopping for organic carrots and recycling bottles. Whether it is a tilapia farm in garden tubs in Kansas City, Mo., beekeeping in Chicago, or jars of homemade pickles in an apartment pantry in Austin, Texas, urban homesteaders are rebelling against the industrial food system by shouldering more of the responsibility for producing their own food.

"There is a population and culture that is finally saying that all this processed stuff is not good and the only way we can guarantee that food we use is safe is to grow it ourselves," says Joyce Miles, a family and consumer science expert in Maggie Valley, N.C., who traces the roots of modern urban homesteading back to the late 1880s.

While growing and preserving food in cities isn't new, these visionaries have elevated planting, composting, and canning to "retro hip" levels. It's a kind of trendy frugality fueled by a desire to be part of an environmental solution in a do-it-yourself era. Some urban home-steaders are home-schoolers who want to teach their children practical science skills. Others are simply trying to eat locally while reducing their food bill. Still others have repurposed domestic chores abandoned by their mothers and grandmothers into a fun hobby.

It is too soon to tell if this back-to-the-land mentality will be only a temporary balm for the anxiety of modern living. Victory gardens, after all, faded with the advent of peace after World War II when industrial food production turned again toward feeding families instead of troops. A homesteading movement in the 1970s was laughed out of existence as an idyllic but impractical response to the energy crisis. However, signs suggest, from the fashionable to the legislative, that today's hands-on engagement is here for the long haul. A few examples:

•Peterson estimates that between 2,000 and 3,000 urban farmers are raising food from Phoenix soil.

•On bucolic Bainbridge Island, off Seattle's coast, keeping chickens has become something of a fashion statement. In July, the island hosted its third annual "Tour de Coop" where visitors could tour participating backyard pens trimmed with artistic touches and, in one case, there was even piped-in classical music.

•Chicago will vote in September on an ordinance that could make growing and selling produce within city limits much easier, potentially giving new purpose to the city's estimated 14,000 empty lots.

These advances come in the midst of a struggling economy, a changing climate, a global food system in peril, rising food prices, concern over lax food safety, and dwindling resources. For homesteaders, cultivating a corner of the yard or the back deck into a tangle of edible things has become one small way to regain purpose and control in an unpredictable time.

While self-sufficiency was once a necessity on the American frontier, transforming an entire yard into an urban minifarm takes considerable time and effort. Harriet Fasenfest in Portland, Ore., who calls herself a "householder," says the key lies in small, incremental steps.

"People want to live this life as a householder but they don't really know what that involves," says Ms. Fasenfest, author of "A Householder's Guide to the Universe," which offers tips and instructions on everything from creating a garden plan and budget to the alchemy of jammaking.

Beyond endless weeding and battles with slugs and nibbling wildlife, urban farming isn't as easy as deciding to dig up your lawn. Zoning laws can restrict ambitions by ruling against the appearance of "messy" lawns and running farm stands out of the front yards. In Oak Park, Mich., Julie Bass made national headlines in July when she faced jail time for breaking city codes by constructing raised vegetable beds in front of her suburban house. Among the charges: The beds were "not common to a front yard." (The charge was later dropped.) Probably most challenging, however, is the fact that long hours of work can sometimes yield very little in results.

Andrée Collier Zaleska of Jamaica Plain, Mass., is homesteading on 1,000 square feet behind her energy-efficient house. It took her two years to rid the backyard of an invasive, creeping vine. But the effort was worth it. Her garden supports two families during the summer months. Terraced beds in late August were plump with kale, parsnips, cabbage, carrots, pumpkins, and broccoli. A chicken coop at the corner of the yard stood empty – the arrival of its would-be feathered residents halted by Boston zoning laws.

"I love the idea of the tiny urban lot bursting with life," says Ms. Zaleska, who spends about 20 hours a week in the garden in the spring, and 10 hours a week in the summer.

Zaleska, who cofounded her homestead with Ken Ward, runs her home as a nonprofit called the JP Green House. Designed to be a model of sustainable urban living, Zaleska gives educational tours and asks for donations on a website to support the venture. Figuring out how to make the JP Green House financially self-sustaining is an ongoing challenge, she admits.

"It doesn't make sense to spend 20 hours a week at a task that doesn't earn any money," she says, adding that she makes more money in her role as a community organizer and climate activist. But the rewards of homesteading – teaching her children practical skills, supplying their dinner from the garden, and the tangible joy the work provides – make it worth the effort.

"This is the fun part. I couldn't do the climate activism without [homesteading] because I'd be too depressed," she says.

But being an urban homesteader and mastering long-forgotten domestic skills doesn't require an overflowing garden. When Kate Payne moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., and was trying to make it as a freelance writer she had "zero reliable income." She started making bread and jam to save money, but found there weren't "a ton of resources" for domestic beginners so she started a blog called "The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking" as a way to chronicle her adventures and find a like-minded community.

"In my family, I didn't grow up doing this stuff," says Ms. Payne, who has since published a book with the same name as her blog and moved back to her hometown of Austin, Texas, where she teaches preserving and baking classes. "When I started canning for the first time I wanted to learn what other people were doing so I put out e-mails, tweets, and Facebook posts" trying to find people who were making their own pickles, yogurts, and cheeses.

It turns out there is a large community online of urban hipsters sharing their trials and triumphs. And people are wanting to share not only their tricks for keeping their container gardens watered while on vacation, but also their extra jars of strawberry jalapeño jam or tubs of rosemary-flavored yogurt.

Before Payne moved back to Texas, she and a friend set up a food swap in Brooklyn – essentially a silent auction where people bring their homemade goods and bid on others. The swap inspired one to get started in Portland, Ore., which in turn inspired one in Los Angeles. Her website lists cities across 20 states that now run food swaps.

This kind of sharing is exactly what Peterson advocates in his classes: It's a way for people to strengthen community connections and experience pride of accomplishment. "My goal is to tell as many people as possible how to grow food in the backyard and share it with your neighbors," he says. "Once you share food [you have produced], you are an urban farmer!"

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2011/0921/The-rise-of-urban-farming

Sustainable DIY Laundry Solutions: The Secrets Detergent Companies Don’t Want You To Know – Organic Lifestyle...

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Sustainable DIY Laundry Solutions: The Secrets Detergent Companies Don’t Want You To Know – Organic Lifestyle Magazine

Unbeknownst to most people, skin is your body’s biggest organ. This stretchy layer of cells actually operates as a semi-permeable barrier that lets plenty of microscopic substances shift in and out. This is great news for aromatherapy adherents and smokers relying on nicotine patches, but not so good if you look too closely at your detergent label. Each of these chemicals, 4-dioxane, benzoxazolyl, polyalkylene quaternium-15:, can be found in most detergents. They are a big cause for concern if you care about your reproductive health, staving off allergic reactions, and staying cancer free.

Worst of all, these chemicals aren’t something you are exposed to only on laundry day. Instead, they come with you wherever your clothes go. Traces of these chemicals create fumes you constantly breathe in, and even tiny amounts can agitate your breathing and cause headaches, neurological problems, and allergy flare-ups.

If that’s not enough to scare you off, keep in mind that the long-term effects of these combinations of chemicals are almost completely unknown.

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