$100 Self Heating Greenhouse Is Finished
Cattle Panels: $25 apiece, used 2; Greenhouse Plastic: $30 remnant left over from replacing plastic on the big greenhouse last Fall; Pallets: Reclaimed, free. If I buy them it is $5 apiece and I used 4.
Grow Potatoes in a Cardboard Box
In this video, I show you how to grow potatoes in a cardboard box container as a great gardening hack to recycle, reuse, and be more sustainable.
How to Dehydrate Herbs and Make Your Own Spices
If you have a bumper crop of herbs and want to experiment with your own spices, this video will show you a simple way to harvest, prepare, and dehydrate herbs. You can mix them into your own spice blends, or preserve them as-is to use for cooking.
Building a Chicken Orchard!
Join Jacques and I as we build a protective and productive orchard in the outdoor run for Jacques' chickens! This experiment should protect his hens from birds of prey while throwing a ton of fruit out over the next few years!
Before You Build a Chicken Coop Watch This
Are you new to raising chickens and need help choosing to build or buy a coop? This video will give you all the basic info you need to decide and how to take care of your new chickens!
The most creative battery breakthroughs of 2021
With lithium-ion batteries serving as the engine room for so much of the modern world, from phones and laptops, to electric cars and planes, every scientific breakthrough that improves their performance is an important one.
What WOULD a base on Mars look like?
What WOULD a base on Mars look like? Imaginative concepts including a 3D-printed building with a 55-inch TV, fitness room and areas to grow crops show how humans could one day live on the Red Planet
Homestead Paradise: got barren land, boosted it at a profit
In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms in the country.
Nebraska retiree uses earths's heat to grow oranges in snow
Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth's stable temperature (around 52