Blog – Page 2 – Eco Snippets

Turn Garbage Into Food With A Worm Bin…

Between 30 to 40 percent of the United States’ food supply is wasted. Vermicomposting keeps that garbage out of the landfill and turns it back into food. You probably end up throwing away a lot of food after some meals. It’s okay, most of us wish we were better about food waste but it often […]

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Farming Fresh Fish & Vegetables With Backyard Aquaponics…

Aquaponics combines two growing methods, aquaculture and hydroponics, to create a self-contained, well-balanced ecosystem. Fish are fed and raised in a tank and as gravity pulls the wastewater through a hydroponic garden, bacteria feed on the waste, breaking it down into essential nutrients for the plants to grow. The system then returns the cleaned water […]

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Food, Earth, Happiness, A Short Film On Natural Farming…

A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York Times bestselling author Alicia Bay Laurel calls “beautiful … […]

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Extremely Productive, Automated, Compact, Off-Grid Homestead…

Former Army tech Larry Johnson has spent his career improving computer and telephone systems so when he saw inefficiencies in how we grow our food, he decided to create a new system for farming your yard. His EZGro garden uses aquaponics, stacked towers, and custom pots to create a high-density vertical garden (HDVG) on as […]

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How To Make & Can Homemade Tomato Sauce…

The following is a recipe extracted from the “Canning For Beginners Collection”. A collection of mini ebooks designed to teach you how to get you started preserving delicious, homemade food… You can download the full collection right now here… How To Make & Can Homemade Tomato Sauce… Here’s the recipe that I use to work […]

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How To Make Fermented Ginger Beer (Ginger Wine)…

The following is a recipe extracted from… “A Cabin Full of Food – Everything You Need To Know To Fill Your Pantry From The Garden & How To Eat What You Store”. Packed with almost 1,000 “Grandma recipes” just like this one… You can download the full 296 page guide here now…. …this is how […]

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