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Rainwater HOG. Poules et Poulailler. Vertical Gardening. VIDEO: Quick And Simple Life Hacks – Part 1. Please Share This Page:

VIDEO: Quick And Simple Life Hacks – Part 1

30+ Things to Do with Eggshells. Simple DIY 200 Watt Wind Turbine Built From Household Materials. Awesome wind turbine can be made from simple materials and a little ingenuity.

Simple DIY 200 Watt Wind Turbine Built From Household Materials

The Zoetrope is “A low-cost, open source wind turbine” that you can build at home very inexpensively and with materials you can find at home and down at your local hardware store. Sorazora Blog. Silk is a natural fibre that we have been working with for some years now, but we are pleased to say that all of the silk we now work with comes from silkworms reared and spun in Nepal.

Sorazora Blog

We'd like to keep our sourcing and production within Nepal and rely less on fibres brought into the country, namely from China and India. The image above shows the cocoons of bivoltine silk worms (worms having two broods a year). Sorazora Blog: Hand Carved Craft Tools. As much as I love working with bone and horn, I have enjoyed carving various hardwoods into craft tools.

Sorazora Blog: Hand Carved Craft Tools

Below is a selection of tools used for needle binding, braiding or weaving. All have been carved from either boxwood, ironwood, ash or bamboo. The image below shows four slightly different styles of weaving shuttle. How to Homestead Without 100 Acres and A Cow. MSU News - 20,000 people a year visit Tinsley House to learn about homesteading in Montana. BOZEMAN –A log house carrying memories from the homesteading days of Montana merged into traffic and joined the cars and trucks streaming east on Interstate 90.

MSU News - 20,000 people a year visit Tinsley House to learn about homesteading in Montana

As angry drivers backed up behind it, the slow-moving Tinsley House rolled from Three Forks to Belgrade, south to Four Corners and east to Bozeman before settling next to Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies in 1986. “I could always tell the progress we’d made each day by the angry phone calls,” said Michael Hager, head of the museum at that time and now president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum. “We backed up traffic for 30 miles on the interstate and truckers were really mad. Then, when it arrived in Bozeman, if trees or mailboxes were in the way, they were removed and a stack of firewood was left for the homeowners along the street.

“We started off with a sign on the back of the home that said, ‘Follow me to the Museum of the Rockies,’” Hager said. Upcoming events are: Wild West Wednesdays. Homestead Revival. Solar technology for farming and urban gardening. Solar-powered devices aren't just for the off-grid adventurers and power-hungry gadget-loving crowd, they're also quite useful in the farm and urban garden, as they can provide the juice needed to fulfill many basic functions for the small grower and farmer alike.

Alternative energy has a long history on farms and ranches, beginning with windmills for water pumping and wind generators for electricity for remote locations. More recently, you'd also be more likely to see a small solar charger powering an electric fence than a PV array on a residential street. And with the advances in both solar technology as well as remote automation, using the power of the sun to run parts of a farm or garden operation is easier than ever. A Storybook Life. Urban Homesteading, or, Old MacDonald had a backyard farm…

The movement to become more self-sufficient in an urban setting is spreading.

Urban Homesteading, or, Old MacDonald had a backyard farm…

Relearning methods for growing and canning produce, managing gray water, and raising chickens are just a few of the areas addressed in the urban homestead movement. Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library has many resources to help you decide if backyard homesteading is for you. The library subscribes to several magazines such as Mother Earth News, Grit, and Natural Home & Garden that are wonderful resources for developing self-sufficiency in an urban setting.

They provide good advice on canning methods, choosing chicken breeds, building structures such as coops and greenhouses, and renewing and reusing instead of discarding. If you are thinking about keeping domestic fowl or livestock, the first step is to check the city ordinances for your community. Books available in the Home Neighborhood will help you consider, plan, and implement a strategy for becoming self-sufficient. Growing A Greener World TV - Sustainable Living and Organic Gardening PBS Series. Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. 25 DIY Low Budget Garden Ideas. The Backyard Farming Connection. The Prairie Homestead. Urban Homesteads for Modern Living. KALEV.COM - Local Stories with Global Impact. Confessions of a Wannabe Urban Homesteader - Tomato Envy : Tomato Envy. My Dream Homestead Having grown up in a small town in rural Indiana, I’m no stranger to farming.

Confessions of a Wannabe Urban Homesteader - Tomato Envy : Tomato Envy

Most of my friends were farmers’ kids and knew how to drive a combine before they could drive a car. In the summers, a lot of my friends found work detassling corn. I still remember the slumber party with the homemade pizza. As I was digging into my slice, I learned with horror that the sausage came from my friend’s prized hog. What I don’t remember about my childhood is ever giving a second thought to all that corn. Tools of the Urban Homesteader One day, on a business trip, I picked up Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food at an airport bookstore. My husband and I joined a CSA at Pennypack Farm, and we got spoiled with the large variety of fresh vegetables on hand throughout the summer and fall.

The Urban Homestead® - A City Farm, Sustainable Living & Resource Center, A Path to Freedom towards Self-Sufficiency. In the mid-1980s, our family set out to do the seemingly impossible: To create a new revolution in sustainable urban living.

The Urban Homestead® - A City Farm, Sustainable Living & Resource Center, A Path to Freedom towards Self-Sufficiency

Finding ourselves owning a run-down circa 1917 craftsman-style house in the metropolis of Pasadena (the 7th largest city in Los Angeles County) and just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles with the intersection of 134 and 210 freeways 30 yards from our home, we shelved our dreams of idyllic country living and "five acres and independence" and decided to do what we could, with what we had -- RIGHT NOW. No one thought it was possible.

Residents in our low income, mixed race neighborhood thought we were the "crazy white folks. " A Permaculture Smallholding Story. Simple Chocolate Truffles – 2 Ingredient Chocolate Truffles. Simple Chocolate Truffles Since we've been on our little journey to cut processed foods out of our diet and sticking to eating from scratch over the last few years, I've found that as time goes by I crave less and less chocolate.

Simple Chocolate Truffles – 2 Ingredient Chocolate Truffles

Two years ago you would NEVER catch me saying something like that! The Urban Homestead® - A City Farm, Sustainable Living & Resource Center, A Path to Freedom towards Self-Sufficiency. Musings from a Stonehead. Stonehead Croft lies almost at the end of a ridge a little over two miles out of Insch, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Musings from a Stonehead

The croft house dates back to at least the 1740s, while the neighbouring Stonehead Circle dates to the late Neolithic period and lends the agricultural surroundings an air of continuity that reflects the fact this area has been occupied for thousands of years. The main part of the croft house and the entire steading are built from local stone, mainly round granite boulders although much of the original and local slate roofing has been replaced in recent times by Welsh slate. Several of the boundaries take the form of drystane dykes, again built from stone taken from the fields, while the whole ridge is a huge mass of stone, split by a fault running roughly east-west. DIY Water Turbine construction by HomesteadingSurvivalism. Did you know that you can build a HYDRO TURBINE / WATER TURBINE for under $50? We will show you, step-by-step (using simple directions/diagrams, & basic tools/parts) HOW To BUILD such devices.

-Save Money & the Environment - Unlike other publications, this CD has info useful to EVERYONE. -We Give You Several Different Plans/Diagrams (not just one) to build various kinds of devices all capable of capturing, storing, & utilizing WATER POWER / HYDRO ENERGY. 101 Basic Homesteading Skills Granny Miller Granny Miller. A Better Home and Garden - Home Decorating, Garden Ponds, Cottage Gardens. Homesteading Today - getting back-to-the-land practicing sustainable, agricultural, ecologically sound, energy efficient, self-sufficient lifestyles.

Other Shopsmith Sites. Homestead.org: The Homesteader's Free Library: Learn Homesteading, Self-sufficiency, and Economic Survival. Home - Homestead Honey. File a Declaration of Homestead - Modern Homesteading.