How To Easily Make A Beehive In A Jar DIY Project. It seems everyone is interested in how to make your own beehive in a jar.
Have the rows of organic honey jars at the farmers market got you thinking about starting your own backyard beehive?
MODERN HOMESTEADING. A Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency Planning a garden in advance can help you enjoy local, homegrown food year-round!
Estimate how much to grow or buy and learn how to achieve food security with these guidelines. Backyard Chicken Facts - 5 Things No One Told Us A few facts that might help you decide whether or not to get chickens for your backyard. Best Guard Dog for Your Homestead Read guard dog training tips and advice on guard dog breeds best suited for your needs. Panty Tutorial: How to Sew Underwear. This tutorial will take you, step by step, through the process of making underwear that fit you perfectly and look great too.
You can click on any of the photos in each step to enlarge them (which will make reading the text on some of them much easier). Please use this pattern for personal use only, and feel free to link back to this post. Natural Tonic: Richard Schulze. The Master Tonic - A Natural Antibiotic by Richard Schulze, University of Natural Healing Based on a tonic by John Christopher Raw Unfiltered Unbleached Non-distilled Apple Cider Vinegar 1 part fresh chopped garlic cloves 1 part fresh chopped White Onion (or hottest onions) 1 part fresh grated Ginger Root 1 part fresh grated Horseradish Root 1 part fresh chopped Cayenne Peppers or the hottest peppers available, i.e. habanero, African Bird, or Scotch Bonnets, etc.
Fill a glass jar 3/4 of the way full w/equal parts by volume (i.e. a cupful each) of the above fresh chopped and grated herbs. The Finished Project. It's a..... Pillow!
I started with one of my old t-shirts, cutting 1 1/2 in wide strips from it. Using the longest stitch, I sewed right down the middle of each strip. I ruffled each strip by pulling the bottom thread and easing the gathering along the thread. This takes a while so I sat and watched a couple of episodes of Veronica Mars while I did it. I really miss that show. I laid out one of my husbands old dress shirts and started laying down the ruffled strips to see how wide my pillow would be and to make sure I had enough ruffles to go all the way across the shirt.
Once I had all the ruffles down, I knew how wide to cut my pillow. Using the side seam of the shirt as a guide, I started sewing the ruffles on to the back of the shirt, going down the center of each strip, right over the original basting stitch. Natural soap making, Soap formula, Soap making Supplies, Natural Soap bars, Soap Molds, Lye Calculator, and Soapmaking Kits.
<-- Back to Recipe Index Making Natural Soap from Scratch Whether you choose to make soap for your own personal use or for gift giving, you will no doubt be hooked after your first batch.
Build a Bat House. Photos and story by Carla Brown, NWF Web Producer I love bats because mosquitoes LOVE to bite me.
Pesticides mostly kill the mosquito's predators rather than mosquitoes. How to Make a Hemp Wick. DIY Beeswax Survival Candles. I was surprised by the overwhelming reaction to our post on DIY Survival Candles back in February--it has become by far the most popular single post on T-Blog.
I wanted to follow up with a how-to for using beeswax for candle making. A good, 100% natural, chemical-free beeswax is the highest quality wax you can get, burning brighter and hotter for longer than other waxes. All good qualities in a survival candle. Beeswax is more expensive than the soy wax that we used on the survival candles--around three to five times the cost, I've found. Recycled Wine Bottle SoyWax Candles and by NuancesOfAmor. The Bee Buzz. Dye - Dyes From Plants - Pioneer Thinking. Did you know that a great source for natural dyes can be found right in your own back yard!
Roots, nuts and flowers are just a few common natural ways to get many colors. Yellow, orange, blue, red, green, brown and grey are available. Go ahead, experiment! Gathering plant material for dyeing: Blossoms should be in full bloom, berries ripe and nuts mature. Remember, never gather more than 2/3 of a stand of anything in the wild when gathering plant stuff for dying. To make the dye solution: Chop plant material into small pieces and place in a pot. Getting the fabric ready for the dye bath: You will have to soak the fabric in a color fixative before the dye process.
Color Fixatives: Salt Fixative (for berry dyes) 1/2 cup salt to 8 cups cold water Plant Fixatives (for plant dyes) 4 parts cold water to 1 part vinegar Add fabric to the fixative and simmer for an hour. Sacred Earth - Uses of Plants: The colours of Nature - Vegetable Dyes. Punk Domestics. Pectin - What it is, how it works, how to use it, the different types if pectin and where to get it! Pectin - What it is, how it works, how to use it, the different types if pectin and where to get it!
This month's notes: April 2014: Spring is just around the corner. Strawberries are here in Florida, Texas and California, next in late March and April for much of the South, then in May for most of the country and June in cooler northern areas.