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Continue reading →: Fish Fertilizer for Potatoes
Francis Hill farms in Waboden, Manitoba, Canada. Here she shares a tip for using fish guts and bones to fertilize potato plants. She gets the fish bits from anglers. Apparently fish are a great fertilizer. With all the contamination that has been showing up in ocean and especially in freshwater…
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Continue reading →: Hakusai tsukemono (Japanese Pickled Cabbage)
Probably most people have heard of kimchee by now, but I’m guessing that fewer of us, unless we have Japanese roots or have lived in Japan know about hakusai tsukemono, Japanese-style pickled cabbage. Apparently, it’s eaten flavored with perilla leaf (shiso), hot pepper, ginger and/or garlic with soy sauce as…
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Continue reading →: Meet Urban Farmers from Vancouver, Canada
An intro to several motivated farmers who farm in Vancouver, Canada – their motivations, the rewards and the impact they hope it will have for their community. Meet your Urban Farmer (trailer) from Fire and Light Media Group on Vimeo.
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Continue reading →: Making Oak Gall Ink/Dye Using Acorns
Larry Vienneau shows us how to make oak gall ink using the more readily available acorns. This is a dark-brown-black ink. He writes: “Iron Oak Gall Ink was used for hundreds of years until modern archival inks arrived. This is the same ink used to sign the Declaration of Independence…
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Continue reading →: Making Walnut Ink/Stain/Dye
The black walnut has a long history of being used to produce a dark stain that can be used as ink, leather making dye, wood and grass stain and textile dye. It’s lightfast, colorfast and doesn’t respond to most solvents, so difficult to get out in general. Scrapbookers now also…
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Continue reading →: Harvesting Rainwater in Pennsylvania
Maximizing the uses of rainwater and minimizing the impacts of stormwater runoff through native landscaping, infiltration and harvesting for reuse was a goal from the start. This video looks at a property (house with barn and surrounding land) in Pennsylvania and what the architect did to design a more sustainable…
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Continue reading →: How to Make Milk Paint
Here is a recipe from Diane Taylor Bowling of A Primitive Journey: The full post with her comments is here: Excerpt follows: Things You’ll Need Ready to mix milk paint or 1 gallon skim milk 2 cups white vinegar 1/4 cup hydrated lime powder – Type S 1/2 cup pigment…
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Continue reading →: Preventing Soil Erosion and Water Contamination on the Farm
A look at what they are doing on a farm in Pennsylvania to retain topsoil and prevent fertilizers, animal waste and pesticides from getting into streams and ending up in Chesapeake Bay. Some features looked at: swales, creating a non-cultivated space near streams, using vegetation as a buffer…
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Continue reading →: How to Make Compost Tea: Cfenster
Cfenster shows us how he makes compost tea to improve soil fertility.
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Continue reading →: The Canning Queen of the Desert
A short profile of Classy Parker, who is an NYC urban vegetable gardener and canning teacher. she talks about the important of farming in the city, fresh food and preserves made from what is grown in the community. The Canning Queen of the Desert from Etsy on Vimeo.