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5 New Solutions For Growing Healthy Produce Indoors

5 New Solutions For Growing Healthy Produce Indoors
Jeffrey GreenActivist Post An increasing number of people are moving into urban environments and away from traditional agriculture. As a consequence, those who have a mind for self-sufficiency can find themselves falling short. Even produce from farmers markets and store-bought organic food will lose peak freshness faster than one might imagine. Most people do not realize that vegetables will lose about half of their nutrients within the first week of being picked. Nothing can beat growing your own fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. However, several high-tech solutions are becoming available for city dwellers, or those who have a less-than-green thumb. The following inventions offer an exciting way to have fresh produce year-round ... right in your own kitchen, while also presenting a potential reduction in overall cost. 1. Visit the site here. For restaurateurs, here is what the commercial model looks like: 2. 3. 4. 5. Recently from Jeffrey Green: Related:  SUSTAINABILITYIdeas for growing

Alcohol Can Be a Gas - The DVD lecture | Permaculture & Alcohol Can Be A Gas See David Blume give a riveting 2-hour-and-40-minute presentation about alcohol fuel. The nation’s first driver-owned co-op was organized as a result of this 2004 talk in Marin County, California! This professionally filmed talk starts with the amazing history of alcohol (it was the first auto fuel), and covers a wide range of topics—exploding the common myths about alcohol, giving a primer on how to produce it, and describing car conversion methods, available tax credits, and far, far more. The DVD is indexed, so you can easily find what you are looking for. Also included is a 6-minute segment showing all the steps in making alcohol fuel. Quantity Discounts: Help spread the word! 3 or more DVDs earns a 20% discount. 7 or more DVDs earns a 40% discount.

10 Interesting Facts About Earthworms By Roger Di Silvestro As winter draws to a close, gardeners begin their spring migration into the outdoors, leaving winter dens behind and coming into contact with the harbingers of the shifting seasons: shovels, hoes and trowels. Oh, and earthworms. Anyone prone to working the soil knows that upturning the earth exposes these shiny, wigging, pinkish-brownish tubular life forms, sending them thrashing in hasty retreat into the comforting, moist darkness of the soil. Earthworms: A Garden’s Friend or Foe? That depends. 1. One of the most familiar of them, the sort you may see in your garden, is commonly known as the night crawler (it typically surfaces after dark), the angleworm (its makes popular bait for fishing) or the rain worm (it leaves waterlogged soil after storms). 2. 3. 4. 5. They mate on the surface of the earth, pressing their bodies together and exchanging sperm before separating. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Visit EcoWatch’s BIODIVERSITY page for more related news on this topic.

The Charles 803 model alcohol still plans by Robert Warren | Permaculture & Alcohol Can Be A Gas Robert Warren's Fuel Alcohol Distillery. More than a quarter century ago, David Blume's former student Robert Warren attended one of David Blume's alcohol fuel workshops in Sacramento, California. From that experience and information he built this fractional column alcohol still with optional automatic temperature control. It allows you to make 180-190 proof alcohol, at the rate of about 2 gallons per hour! You can make this still in one or two weekends, if you have some basic hand tools and a propane soldering torch. The Underground, Year Round, Ever Growing Greenhouse! Make no mistake, the world is coming into major transition and change. Economies are inflating like helium filled balloons, debt is escalating like runaway trains and it's unlikely to be long before big shifts happen. If not the back end of this year, then I would say certainly in the next three. That's why growing your own food is important, especially as GMO, chemtrails and pesticides continue to decimate topsoils and contaminate the food chain. You don't need much, a window sill will do, or a balcony that gets some sun. The "Walipini" I came across this idea recently on Wake Up World. "The Walipini, in simplest terms, is a rectangular hole in the ground 6′ to 8′ deep covered by plastic sheeting. Energy and light from the sun enter the Walipini through the plastic covered roof and are reflected and absorbed throughout the underground structure. Designed to inspire Here's a video from LaPaz, Bolivia, narrated in Spanish but with great music accompaniment! Enlivening your cells

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Building Fertile Soil - Organic Gardening Building fertile soil means learning how to feed the soil to feed the plants. It's a fundamental axiom of organic gardening and farming, and once you understand what "feeding the soil" means to building fertile soil, you'll also understand why organic methods, and no-till techniques in particular, work so well. Even though you can't see most of it, a complex soil food web lives in your garden; it's teeming with earthworms, mites, bacteria, fungi — all kinds of mostly microscopic, interdependent organisms that release mineral nutrients and create the loose soil structure crops need to thrive. Beneficial mycorrhizal fungi (see "The Magic of Mycorrhizal Fungi," page 24 in this issue) grow in and around plant roots, mining subsoil for nutrients and water to share with your crops. Other microorganisms prevent diseases and help plants withstand insect attacks. Your crops actually help feed all this underground life. But this complex, mostly invisible soil ecosystem can be damaged easily.

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How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse First off – you really can build this thing very cheaply, but to do so you have to recycle, freecycle, and scrounge. If you just go out and buy new everything it will probably cost over $200 – still not bad all in all.This Article is featured in Jan 2010 issue of Birds and Blooms Magazine!Want to find out if this thing works before you read all this? Read 6 months in the Greenhouse first.Want to see what happens when a few inches of wet snow accumulates on this? My $50 Greenhouse Welcome Stumbleupon Gardeners! Materials list Construction Steps Hind Sight – What I would do differently The planning is over and construction on my hoop house greenhouse has begun. After some research I’ve decided to build the structure of the hoop house out of 20 ft. joints of three quarter inch PVC plumbing pipe. My hoop house green house is going to be 11 feet wide and 15 feet long, and will be about seven and a half feet tall in the center. If your Greenhouse is too Flat it will collapse! Thusly Thusly.

How Would You Like To Grow Into A Tree After You Die? Did you know that you can grow into a tree after you die? Bios Urn is a funerary urn made ​​from biodegradable materials that will turn you into a tree after you die. Inside the urn there is a pine seed, which can be replaced by any other seed or plant, and will grow to remember your loved one. When planted, the tree seed is nourished by and absorbs the nutrients from the ashes of your body which are contained inside. Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. We now have the option of turning cemeteries into forests, which is a little bit less traditional but is far more practical. So which would you prefer; leaving behind a tree or a tombstone? Related:

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