An Old-Fashioned Recipe For Root Beer

“There’s an old-fashioned charm to homemade root beer with its odd array of roots and bark, flowers, leaves and berries. It, like many other fermented beverages, once enjoyed

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Building Your Own Renewable Energy Systems From Recycled Materials

“Steward Community Woodland was born five years ago, when a group of us looking to set up a sustainable living and working woodland project bought and moved into

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Growing Baby Ginger In The Home Garden

“Growing baby ginger in the home garden sure sounds interesting; but isn’t ginger a tropical plant that’s not suitable for the climates here in the U.S.? Well not

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45 Things To Do With Fresh Sage

“I recently remarked to a sympathetic friend how difficult it is to buy fresh sage around here. Sage isn’t used intensively in French cuisine, so it’s not part

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10 Shipping Container Buildings For Homes And Outbuildings

“Just a few miles from my house, there is a piece of land with two old shipping containers placed about 20′ apart and parallel to each other. There

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Cheap Solar / Evaporative Fridge

“This solar fridge is a simple and quick DIY project. The reason I decided to build it was because the fridge in your house takes up a ton

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Understanding The Moon Phases

“…It’s probably easiest to understand the moon cycle in this order: new moon and full moon, first quarter and third quarter, and the phases in between. As shown

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Beekeeping – Swarm Capture

“Swarms are easier to capture than removing an existing hive. Swarms usually have no comb, and are just a huge pile of bees hanging from a tree, car

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Making The Most Of It – Stacking On Our Farm

“In our society, single use is the name of the consumerism game. Gadgets abound, and specialization is the key. Granted, I like some gadgets here and there, and

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World’s Largest Aquaponics Project Unveiled In UAE

This is a few years old but still very cool… “Currently the UAE is estimated to import around 85% of its food which understandably leaves the country open

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Garlic, Onion, & Chili Powder

“If you’ve ever bought spices from the store, you probably noticed that they often contain ingredients like “ant-caking agent” or “natural flavor” (AKA MSG). Many often contain trace

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How To Make the Best Tasting Grape Juice

“The secret to making delicious homemade grape juice is to never boil the grapes. Grape juice reduces bad cholesterol, helps maintain healthy blood pressure, prevents damage to blood

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How To Preserve Garlic

“With a huge harvest of hard neck garlic and no possible way to use it all before it began sprouting, I decided to figure out a better way

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Popular Duck Breeds

“Regardless of which breed (or breeds) of duck you choose to raise, you will discover the joy and satisfaction of keeping an extremely hardy, good-natured and productive type

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How To Eliminate The Cost Of Chicken Feed

“I used to sell my chickens for almost exactly the same price I paid for feed. And the story for the eggs was pretty much the same. This

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Scent-sational Projects With Lavender

“Tempted to do something with the lavender growing in your yard? Letting such a fragrant herb go to waste would be… well, a waste! Gathering, drying and using

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Braiding Garlic

“Jamey pulled our garlic the other day. We found that the right time to pull it is when some of the leaves/stems are turning brown, while most are

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66 Things You Can Grow In Containers

“Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don’t have to

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How Much To Plant To Supply A Years Worth Of Food

“Do you know how much your family eats in a year’s time? As a farmer’s wife, I am keenly aware of how much meat, poultry, eggs, honey and

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Weave Traditional Chair Seats

“Visit any antique or second-hand furniture store and you’ll find great old chairs that are bargain priced because their woven seats have worn out. In fact, any chair

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