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Continue reading →: Graywater Systems for Your Garden
This is a great talk by Laura Allen (here walking us through her home humanure system) and Gregory Bullock about setting up a home graywater system. “Greywater (water that comes from sinks, showers, and washing machines) turns wasterwater and its nutrients into irrigation water, saving time, money, and fresh drinking…
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Continue reading →: The Plant World’s Clean-up Crew – Hyperaccumulators
Hyperaccumulators are plants that are highly effective at accumulating nasty stuff like heavy metals in their “bodies.” So much so, that they can be planted expressly to improve contaminated soil. Here’s the Wikipedia list of these plants. You’ll notice some familiar plants on the list: sunflower, alfalfa, barley, kale, broccoli,…
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Continue reading →: Vegetable Garden Fact Sheets and Guides from Texas A&M University
This is a treasure trove of information about vegetables and vegetable growing. If you don’t live in Texas you’ll benefit from the general information, if you live in Texas or in the same region you’ll be able to take advantage of the region-specific information they give. Vegetables covered in detail…
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Continue reading →: Pedal-Powered Cellphone
This video shows you how to modify a hand crank radio with a USB port into a bike-powered charger for your cell phone. In the vid it’s just duct taped to the bicycle. There is probably someone out there who has created a nice housing for this on their bike.
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Continue reading →: How to Make Hand-Pulled Noodles
Luke Rymarz explains a noodle making technique traditional to Asia. His wheat noodle ingredients lists and dough recipes are here. He writes that it took him more than 30 attempts to perfect his recipe and technique.
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Continue reading →: How to Dig Steamer Clams
Mike Foran at Ninigret Pond in Charlestown, Rhode Island, where he was vacationing, shows us how to find and dig for steamer clams. I would probably wear protective gloves, since clam shells can be sharp, but then I’m not an experienced clammer like Mike.
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Continue reading →: Intro to the box style solar oven/cooker
This is a video produced by the manufacturer (or a distributor) of a brand of solar ovens/cookers (both terms seem to get used). As this is a commercial item it’s been realized to a really high standard but as the overall technology is simple and solar ovens in general aren’t…
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Continue reading →: Free Tomato Plants from Side-shoots
Oh, the marvellous tomato plant! This video shows an easy way to make clones of your tomato plants from otherwise discarded foliage. You’d prune off those extra shoots as a matter of course because they take energy away from the plant that you want it to spend on producing tomatoes.…
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Continue reading →: Urban Farming in Oakland, California
Urban farmer and author (Farm City:The Education of an Urban Farmer and The Essential Urban Farmer), Novella Carpenter talks about urban agriculture and shows us around her reclaimed-from-vacant-lot farm in the “Ghost Town” neighborhood in Oakland, California. She grows vegetables and raised poultry, rabbits, goats, bees and at one time…
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Continue reading →: Build a Netted Cloche to Protect Your Garden Crops
The Allotment Vegetable Growing Guy shows us how to build an easy-to-make netted garden cloche — a kind of crop protection frame. He uses pressure treated wood and PVC in his construction. I’d be wary of both near my veggies and would probably used bamboo, but the design seems great.
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