Frühlingskabine Micro-Farm. 10 Simple, Cheap Home Gardening Innovations to Set You on the Path to Food Independence. Alex PietrowskiActivist Post The issue of food quality and food independence is of critical importance these days, and people are recognizing just how easy and fun it is to grow your own food at home.
When renegade gardener Ron Finley said, “growing your own food is like printing money,” he was remarking on the revolutionary nature of re-establishing control over your health and your pocket book as a means of subverting the exploitative and unhealthy food systems that encourage the over-consumption of processed and fast foods. Thanks to the Internet, the availability of parts and materials, and good old-fashioned ingenuity, there is a wide range of in-home, and in-apartment, gardening systems that are easy to construct and maintain, and that can provide nutritious, organic, and low-cost food for you and your family.
Aquaponics. Forging the Hammer. Interview: Stephen Kinzer, Author Of 'The Brothers' Hide captionJohn Foster Dulles (right) is greeted by his brother Allen Welsh Dulles on his arrival at LaGuardia Field in New York City in 1948.
Jacob Harris/AP John Foster Dulles (right) is greeted by his brother Allen Welsh Dulles on his arrival at LaGuardia Field in New York City in 1948. In 1953, for the first and only time in history, two brothers were appointed to head the overt and covert sides of American foreign policy. President Dwight Eisenhower appointed John Foster Dulles secretary of state, and Allen Dulles director of the CIA. Journalist Stephen Kinzer says the Dulles brothers shaped America's standoff with the Soviet Union, led the U.S. into war in Vietnam, and helped topple governments they thought unfriendly to American interests in Guatemala, Iran, the Congo and Indonesia. John Dulles died in 1959. Interview Highlights On the way the brothers worked together. CD3WD: A Mega-Reference for Homesteaders. If I could keep only one reference source in a post-apocalyptic world, I know which one I would choose.
Before I fill you in on my choice, I’ll go ahead and declare that I’m not planning or preparing for “the apocalypse” or teotwawki. I realize that if I am wrong I’ll just have to pay for my lack of foresight… This being said, having available almost all of the information needed to reconstruct a functioning society in Mad Maxx times is a pretty cool thing to consider. This would be the case even if I’m just looking at “how to’s” for a whole slew of things that today we have in place and take for granted. (If you’re reading this article you probably are much more aware than the average person, so you’ll probably agree with my next statement.) Wall Mounted Clothes Drying Rack, Perfected. Last week I talked about building my wall-mounted DIY clothes drying rack from a Freecycled baby play pen.
Several readers expressed their concern that my rack as-built wouldn’t allow quite enough airflow to ensure prompt drying. I addressed those concerns temporarily by propping the rack when in-use away from the wall using a fruit tree branch spreader. Who knew those things were so versatile? How to charge your phone with fruit! - HD (1080p) How to Easily Heat Your Home Using Flower Pots & Tea Lights. Wanting to cut costs on the energy bill, especially now that temperatures are dropping for the season?
Economics may be one reason to seek more sustainable energy sources, but this inventive way to heat the house is also purely fascinating. Journalist, YouTuber, and boat owner Dylan Winter created his DIY heater using tea lights and placed inside a bread tin and covered with two ceramic flowerpots. This creative system uses the scientific principles of convection heat transfer and, according to Winter, can heat his home for around 8 hours a day.
The tea lights are first put into a bread loaf tin and covered with a small upside-down flower pot. The hole in the top of the upside-down pot is covered with the metal casing leftover from one of the tea lights. John Milewski on Ormus. The Silver Bullet: Making Your Own Colloidal Silver. Silver has been used medicinally and preventatively for centuries.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, and Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar, both wrote of the use of silver to treat wounds and prevent disease. Water, milk and vinegar were stored in silver containers to maintain freshness and prevent contamination since ancient times. Off The Grid Build - Making Bottle Bricks. 3 fast ways to purify your drinking water. We’ve covered some easy water purification techniques here, including using the sun, but I’ve got even more for you.
How to Build a Solar Heating Panel with Soda Cans. If you’ve got good sun exposure on one side of your house, you can take advantage of free heat from the sun with this DIY solar heating panel, which uses old soda cans to collect and transfer the sun’s energy into your house.
Sometimes, low-tech solar devices are much better than high-tech ones for home use, as they not only tend to be cheaper to make, but will also last much longer before any repairs or maintenance are necessary. And even better, they can be built in part from repurposed or recycled components, which is something you don’t see very often in new solar devices. This solar space heater design uses old soda cans to increase the surface area for heat transfer inside of it, and in its most basic design, uses no external power to move the air.
Double-glazed glass or polycarbonate panels make up the front of the device, allowing the sun’s rays to enter it while restricting heat loss to the outside air, and the box is also insulated for more efficiency. How to Turn a Beer Can Into a Camping Stove. Turn Mason Jars Into Nostalgic Oil Lamps. DIY Solar Oven - DIY Solar Network. Solar power trailer: Part 1 by Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM. Solar power trailer: Part 2 by Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM. In Part I of this article in the November/December 2007 issue, I described the many uses for a solar power system that could be made totally portable.
If you took up the challenge to build your own version of this solar project, your assignment was to find an enclosed utility trailer to serve as the basis for your own portable power system. In this issue, I am going to describe in more detail the electrical components you will need, and how to wire everything together. Batteries. {how to} Cold Storage 101. I’ve pretty much wrapped up harvesting crops on Silly Goose Farm.
Apples are done, tomatoes are done, and all that’s left to put-up is a couple of cabbages, a few rows of rainbow carrots, and a whole bunch of pears. The pear trees on our farm are over 100 years old and positively drip with fruit. Root Cellar. We decided that our little farm needed a root cellar to store our produce in. For those unfamiliar with the term, a root cellar is an underground room that acts like a natural refrigerator, maintaining temperatures in the mid 30's F in the winter and mid 50's in the summer. Step one: Dig a hole in the ground. How To Make a Homemade Ozone Generator (Air Purifier) Warning: Your DIY Budget Water Ionizer Could Be Poisoning You! by Ken Rohla. Tips, howto. Cob Houses - Live Debt Free with Sustainable Development. Building with Cob: Post-Collapse Solution for Shelter.
Build yourself a portable home - a mongolian yurt. Yurt/Gher Construction 101 A guide to Building Yurts...or more specifically, how I built mine! Based on Knowledge Gained from "Doing it Myself", and reading about it on-line. Gregory Kloehn: California designer turns a DUMPSTER into into his Brooklyn getaway complete with a toilet, stove and sun deck. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 05:58 GMT, 9 August 2013 | Updated: 11:26 GMT, 9 August 2013 A California designer has turned a $2,000 dumpster into a fully functional home, complete with a bathroom, bed, kitchen and sun deck. Gregory Kloehn converted the dumpster in Brooklyn off of a hunch, and now he uses it whenever he stays in New York. Two Shipping Containers Turned into a Small House. If you’re like me you don’t just like tiny houses. I happen to like all sorts of unique shelters in all kinds of shapes and sizes. But usually for me the smaller the better because I like efficiency and the idea of not going beyond our needs too much.
In this post I’m going to show you an example of what can be done with a couple of recycled shipping containers. See how this architect turned two reclaimed containers into a beautiful, eco-friendly small house: Space in the Living Room still Opens up to the Outside Outdoor Deck Space Interior of the Container House. Cargo Container House Container House Workshops. YouTube. Hobbit Houses: 15 Grassy Hill-Shaped Dwellings.
Steampunk Sphere Home is a Prefab Disaster Shelter. Powered with wind and solar energy, this spherical home on five stilts is a self-sufficient, sustainable prefabricated shelter that can withstand disasters like floods and storms. The Eye of the Storm. Our Earthbag House - How to buid a fortress on the cheap. A tiny house built from slip-straw in Asheville, USA. Student Converts School Bus into Mobile Home and Drives Around Country. For his final project, graduate architecture student Hank Butitta bought an old school bus on Craigslist for $3,000. 15 weeks and $6,000 of improvements later, Hank and his two friends were ready to embark on a 5,000 mile (8,046 km) journey across the United States.
The 225 sq. ft mobile home features reclaimed gym flooring and dimmable LED lighting. Using the 28 inch wide windows as a modular guide (the aisle is also 28 in. wide), the bus is divided into four primary zones: bathroom, kitchen, seating, and sleeping. How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse. Wilderness Survival: Free info covering all aspects of survival. The Great Northern Prepper. This post was done by a Forum member Alaska Rose, who is a wealth of knowledge of wilderness and homesteading skills. Learn more from her and others on our FORUM This picture shows the most common way to cut the hide for skinning a game animal.
The dotted lines around the legs and neck are the usual cuts for removing the head and lower legs. How To Incubate & Hatch Eggs. Dehydrating Eggs Picture Tutorial Recipe & Video. Thy Hand Hath Provided: Braiding Garlic. Jamey pulled our garlic the other day. How to make cottage cheese. 4 Simple Steps to Grow a Hundred Pounds of Potatoes in a Barrel. Index of Wilderness Survival Tips - Edible Plants - Smoking Meat - Jerky - Hunting - Trapping - Bow and Arrows - by Robert Wayne Atkins.
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