Stainless Steel Garden Incinerator / Patio Heater From Recycled Scrap

“Project:  To build a replacement for the ugly rusted and burned out oil drum we have been using for a incinerator. Lets face it when it come to

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How To Build A Rain Barrel For Less Than $100

“It’s pretty easy to build your own rain barrels from plastic drums or trash cans. Search online for “bottles” or “containers” to find an “open head” plastic 55-gallon

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Make A Month’s Worth Of Green Smoothies

“I started drinking green smoothies during my first whole living challenge attempt, and ever since then they’ve been a staple in my a.m. intake. What thrills me even

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How To Make A Terra Cotta Pot Meat Smoker

“One of the hardest parts of this smoker is finding the suggested pottery piece for the lid. I ended up using the drain pan for the pot size

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How To Make Your Own Electrolyte Energy Drink

“Gatorade, PowerAde, electrolyte pumped-up sports drinks… they’re good for you, right? You see athletes chugging down bottles of the neon-colored liquid in every ad and real life, surely

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How To Compost Food Scraps

“Composting food scraps at home is one of the most important aspects of home composting. Why? Because food scrap items such as vegetable and fruit waste, meal leftovers,

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Growing Mushrooms Using The Log Inoculation Method

“Inoculating logs with mushroom spawn couldn’t be easier. Basically you drill holes in the logs 3-4 inches apart in a diamond pattern, pound in the spawn plugs, cover

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How To – Cold Storage 101

“While many of you might partake in canning and freezing the harvest, cold storage is another option that is less familiar for the home preservationist. Cold storage requires

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How To Make A Container Pond In A Stock Tank

“Over the years of blogging about my stock-tank ponds (a 100-gallon container pond in my former garden, and this new 717-gallon one), I’ve been asked many times how

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How To Make Homemade Feta Cheese

“I have been promising to bring you my homemade feta cheese recipe for a while. Today is finally the day. You may be wondering why I bother making

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How To Make A Food Storage Shelf

“When harvest time comes, you need somewhere to dry all of your produce and store it for the winter. If taken care of properly, you could be enjoying

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How To Make Hand-Dipped Beeswax Candles

“A short introduction to making candles with beeswax a few years back was an inspiration enough to dabble with my own candle dipping project on a hot August

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Raising Animals As Gardening Allies

“When I go into the garden first thing in the morning, fuzzy, yellow ducklings race into view. Running around cheeping, they take a bite from the feeder, have

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How To Raise Tilapia In The Backyard

“Tilapia ranks as the second most cultivated fish in the world, after carp. Tilapia is one of the most popular farmed fish in the world and its production is increasing.

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How To Make Your Own Totally Organic Plant Fertilizer

Worm castings, worm tea, and worm leachate are 3 of the most powerful organic fertilizers one can use in the garden, and you can keep an endless supply

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Seed Starting In Egg Cartons

“It’s finally time to start seeds again! After months of winter garden dreaming, action at last! First come the onions. We’re planting a bunch this year, maybe not

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DIY Project – Build Swings Around A Campfire

“Summer is a great time for relaxing outside and what better way to do that than with a porch swing? How about if you had several porch swings

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How To Make Depression Era Homemade Bread

Have you seen Clara of Depression Coooking with Clara on the news lately? She is 93 years old and has her own blog and several videos on youtube.

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How To Make Homemade Yogurt

“Why should you bother making yogurt at home? Well, homemade yogurt is ridiculously good, ridiculously cheap, and not very complicated to make. Basically, you… heat up milk cool

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Dehydrating Eggs For Long Term Storage

“A few years ago I started dehydrating my extra eggs over the spring, summer, and fall. The main reason I did this was because from about November until March

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