Suggested Vegetables and Fruits for a Rabbit Diet. Rabbits in the wild all over the world successfully consume a wide variety of plant material. Various types of dry and fresh grasses and plants with leaves comprise the largest portion of the wild rabbit diet. Rabbits will also eat bark on trees, tender twigs and sprouts, fruits, seeds and other nutritious foods in much small amounts. This is important to know when we decide what is a healthy diet for our house rabbits. The majority of the house rabbit diet should be composed of grass hay (any variety). Grass hay is rich in Vitamin A and D as well as calcium, protein and other nutrients. Eating hay promotes healthy teeth and gastrointestinal tract and should be available to your rabbit at all times.
Fresh foods are also an important part of your rabbit’s diet and they provide additional nutrients as well as different textures and tastes, which are enriching for your friend as well. An approximate amoun Fruits can also be fed in small amounts. Leafy Greens II (low in oxalic acid) Redefining Progress - Genuine Progress Indicator. How We Measure Progress The GPI starts with the same personal consumption data that the GDP is based on, but then makes some crucial distinctions. It adjusts for factors such as income distribution, adds factors such as the value of household and volunteer work, and subtracts factors such as the costs of crime and pollution.
Because the GDP and the GPI are both measured in monetary terms, they can be compared on the same scale. Measurements that make up the GPI include: Income Distribution Both economic theory and common sense tell us that the poor benefit more from a given increase in their income than do the rich. Much of the most important work in society is done in household and community settings: childcare, home repairs, volunteer work, and so on.
Crime Crime imposes large economic costs on individuals and society in the form of legal fees, medical expenses, damage to property, and the like. Resource Depletion Pollution Long-Term Environmental Damage Changes in Leisure Time top of page. Soil survivor: An interview with urban farming legend Will Allen. Will Allen. (Photo by Growing Power.) In his new autobiographical book, The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities, we see a different side of MacArthur Genius and urban farmer Will Allen. The book takes readers behind the scenes to witness the process of trial and error behind Growing Power, the Milwaukee-based urban farm, CSA, and youth training program that put Allen on the map.
But The Good Food Revolution is much more than a how-to guide. The story extends back to Allen’s family’s escape from sharecropping, his childhood on the land, the basketball career that pulled him out of poverty and allowed him to travel, his work for various corporations — including a stint at KFC and one at Procter and Gamble — and his eventual return to farming. Alongside his own story, Allen also recounts the stories of several people who were instrumental to building Growing Power with him, many of whom experienced their first reliable and fulfilling job on the urban farm. Q. Compost: How to Make It, Bins, Piles and More. Coop Designs. Test Chicken Acceptance! 30 things you should never compost or recycle. Remember the good ol' days — back when we only had one bin for trash? In retrospect, those days were actually more wasteful than good. We sent things to the landfill that might have nourished our yards, and buried them side-by-side with materials that should have been reclaimed and put back in the production chain.
Today, most of us have two bins: one for compost and another for recycling. They're great for reducing curbside trash, but not everything is suitable for those bins. We've rounded up 30 things people mistakenly try to compost or recycle. Bread products: This includes cakes, pasta and most baked goods. Cooking oil: Smells like food to animal and insect visitors. Diseased plants: Trash them, instead. Heavily coated or printed paper: This is a long list, including magazines, catalogs, printed cards and most printed or metallic wrapping paper.
Human or animal feces: Too much of a health risk. Meat products: This includes bones, blood, fish and animal fats. Sawdust: So tempting. Easy Lean-To Makeover: Our New Coop. We needed a new coop. Our flock had just continued to grow over the last few years but, sadly, our coop hadn't. I love the little coop that I built three years ago for our original six chickens, but it was now literally bursting at the seams.
I wanted to buy a ready-made coop in the $2,000-3,000 price range...but my husband insisted that I could build one instead for a lot less money. We compromised and I got free rein to convert an old lean-to attached to our barn (and conveniently butting up against the back of our existing run) into a new coop. I know, not too inspiring! I had my work cut out for me, but I absolutely love building, creating, and re-purposing, so I eagerly accepted the challenge. It has taken about a month of working on it a bit at a time, mostly early in the morning before it gets too hot, but our new coop is finally finished!
Here's how I tackled this lean-to makeover project: Furring strips around the edges secured the floor to the walls. Cost of our New Coop Materials: Bottle Drip Irrigation | I prefer to have the bottle standing right-way-up as I think it looks nicer and it keeps debris out of the bottle thus keeping the holes from blocking. The materials: * 2 litre plastic soft-drink bottle or water bottle * Sharp small screwdriver, pointed hole-maker or drill This can be used in container gardening, raised bed gardens and open vegetable gardens. Using your pocket knife, make 2 small slits in the bottom of your bottle. Dig a hole next to your tomato plant. This will slowly deep-water your tomato plants and most other vegetable plants.
You can learn more about this on another website. Only two very small holes are needed at the lowest place on the bottle. I prefer to leave the lids off. Place bamboo stakes next to each bottle. Here I am making another hole slightly higher up the bottle. However, if I remove the lid, water will come out this hole as well as the holes in the base. You can make larger holes, and partly fill the bottle with coarse-sand or soil to slow the flow. Building Your Compost Pile - Composting for the Homeowner. Different Types of Wood Fired Soaking Hot Tubs. Low-cost raised beds by Lucas Crouch. Inexpensive and durable, silt fencing makes nice raised beds.Fencing can be attached to the taller fence stakes in the corners. I don't have a perfect garden, but since I started gardening seven years ago, I have worked toward that goal. Experimentation and luck have helped me develop a raised bed that is pretty close to ideal for my circumstances. It might be what you're looking for, too.
In my garden, I have tried to make sure things are inexpensive, durable, and as organic as possible. And since I live in coastal Florida at an elevation of a few feet, it must also be termite-proof and resistant to flooding. The materials you'll need are silt fencing, schedule 40 PVC pipe, and metal fence stakes (T-posts).
Silt fencing is available at your local big hardware store. PVC pipe is about $2 for a ten-foot piece. Cut the roll of silt fence into three 1-foot sections. Now you are ready to lay out your garden. If you wish, you can add a weed liner at this point. Now add the dirt. Sweet Sorghum Revival: How to Grow Your Own Natural Sweetener - Modern Homesteading. I grew up helping my family make sweet sorghum syrup. I remember the sorghum canes growing in our garden, and the late summer day we harvested our crop. I loved the long day with family and friends, Dad readying the equipment, and Mom making sure everyone was fed.
After Dad passed away, I became determined that my children would continue to play a part in producing this delicious, homegrown, natural sweetener. Sorghum-making is a way to increase your food self-sufficiency, but more than that, it’s a meaningful tradition you can add to your homestead. A past call-out in MOTHER EARTH NEWS for sorghum-making stories led to a flow of memories, photos and recipes centered on sweet sorghum syrup. (I’ve shared many of these stories in my blog, A Modern Missouri Homesteader.) I’ve read about kids chewing on sticks of sweet cane, neighbors working together to send the cane through the mill, and loving parents ladling syrup onto a pan for kids to dip into with apples. What Is Sorghum Syrup?