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Continue reading →: Raising Guinea Pigs for Meat
A couple in Queensland, Australia talk about keeping guinea pigs for meat. They decided on guinea pigs because they had limited space and keeping rabbits in Queensland is illegal. They eat the males and keep one male and females for breeding (they have about 20 guinea pigs). They have plans…
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Continue reading →: Making Halloumi Cheese
How to make halloumi cheese at home, simply presented by Guru Ted in New Zealand. I had no idea it could be so easy — and inexpensive — to make. Here’s halloumi being produced on a larger scale in the traditional manner in Lysi, Cyprus. Notice how they use baskets…
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Continue reading →: Food Forest Garden in Oregon
Jon Kohler takes us through a food forest garden just outside of Portland, Oregon.
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Continue reading →: How to Produce Biodiesel from Vegetable Oil
Lance Hall shows us how to make biodiesel (he uses it for his car and tractor) from vegetable oil. Lance recommends biodiesel.org for more info on biodiesel. Lance covers making biodiesel manually and making it with a reactor. He has quite the set up. This is a dangerous process, in…
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Continue reading →: How to Make an Inexpensive Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Using Plastic Barrels
Jeff Berezin of Berezin Technologies shows us how to make a vertical axis, Savonius wind turbine using plastic barrels.
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Continue reading →: Make Your Own Zoetrope Wind Turbine
“The Zoetrope is a vertical-axis wind turbine made from common materials such as stove pipe, metal brackets, plastic sheet and a trailer hub. Many of the materials can be found at local hardware or home improvement stores, the rest can either be made at home or purchased online. The Zoetrope…
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Continue reading →: Can I get botulism from fermented vegetables?
Sandor Katz, of wildfermentation.com answers the question.
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Continue reading →: Using ‘Natural’ Clay to Make Pottery
These videos were eye-openers for me, because I hadn’t really thought of clay in the soil as anything other than a nuisance and certainly hadn’t thought of using it for anything. Here we learn how to find and clean clay found in a river bank. There seem to be two…
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Continue reading →: How to Make a Worm Composting Bin
simplelivingskills shows us how to make a simple, inexpensive, indoor worm composting bin: Liz of BigTexWorms gives us the low-down on how to care for the worms, how best to prepare their food, bedding, etc. Liz has got to know everything about red wriggler worms.
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Continue reading →: Seed Saving and Heirloom Seeds
Jeremiah “Jere” Gettle, the founder of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds talks about his seed bank in Petaluma, California, seed saving, heirloom seeds and biodiversity.