One Rule Compost
The main compost system used within the RED Gardens Project is also added to by many households in the community, with a single general rule about what type of material can be added. And the methods used to manage this large volume of material have
3 Ways Amish Keep Food COLD
Without access to public power, how do Amish keep their food cold? Do they have refrigerators? It turns out Amish have a number of ways of cooling food - some quite simple, others relying on creativity & technology.
Do You Know How to Grow a Secret Garden?
You have to grow food to stay alive post-collapse, but do you know how to grow a secret garden that will keep you alive in more ways than one? Here are 3 ways to grow food without catching anyone's attention.
Our Chicken Tunnels, Coop, and Run Setup around the Garden
Chicken chunnels are a great option for a gardener with chickens. Here's our setup, including the chicken coop, chicken run, and chicken tunnels around two sides of our large garden area. Chickens are great for weed control and pest control for our g
How2: Make a $5 Emergency Water Filter
I'll be showing you how to make a three bucket filter and purifier for making almost any water safe to drink, using no to low cost materials and basic tools.
Body composting: 'Green' burial trend takes root in USA
At a morgue near Seattle, Washington State, human bodies inside metal containers are slowly being turned into compost in a process known as "terramation". The process, legalised in Washington in 2019, is becoming an increasingly popular "green" alter
Can't open that jar?
Experts lift the lid on the best tricks - including wearing a pair of rubber gloves for a sturdy grip
$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!
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
Worm Composting...Underground?! Subpod Review
Reviewing the Subpod, the composting product I get the MOST questions about. It took me a while to get this review together because I wanted to put the system through its paces, and as you'll see, there were some design challenges I faced with the la