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Continue reading →: Maple Sugaring Process
goatkisses posted this really great series of videos (chock full of tips and important considerations) on maple sugaring:
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Continue reading →: How to Make Vinegar
This following video was obviously a school project — but the two students do a really good job of showing how to make vinegar and giving the science behind it. Musings on “the mother” and vinegar/fruit flies from goatkisses: Erica shows us how she makes her own fruit vinegar. She…
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Continue reading →: Adobe Brickmaking 101
Here they are making stabilized adobe bricks including Portland cement.
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Continue reading →: Growing Sorghum
This video has us meeting the Simonsens, in Nebraska, who grow sorghum. They use no-till rotational planting. They mill sorghum flour themselves and sell it direct through mail order. The grit left over from the milling gets fed to their livestock.
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Continue reading →: How to Tap A Birch Tree
Apparently birch sap can be used as a water source or cooked down and used as syrup.
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Continue reading →: Straw Bale, Adobe and Post and Beam House in New Mexico
The following videos feature a small (800 sq ft) “hybrid” house built by designer Ted Owens in Corallis, New Mexico, near Albuquerque. His house uses post and beam construction (he got the lumber from salvage yards and home renos), straw bale and adobe with mud used as plaster. The house…
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Continue reading →: Cooking with the Sun on the Navajo Reservation in Utah
This was a really interesting entry. Here several Navajo students from Paul McCarl’s class at the Whitehorse High School in Montezuma Creek, Utah present their solar cooker projects. Especially interesting is a Fresnel lens cooker the students built in order to be able to fry the popular Southwest fry bread.…
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Continue reading →: How to Make A 16-Brick Rocket Stove
Here, “Dr. Larry Winiarski makes a clean burning rocket stove using 16 adobe bricks at the Rotary International-sponsored Integrated Cooking Workshop in Tlautla, Mexico.” Important points: The advantages of this kind of stove – rocket stoves are easy to construct, burn wood extremely efficiently, so a little wood goes a…
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Continue reading →: The Power of Compost – The Jean Pain Story
This mini documentary is a bit rough because it’s old and grainy and in German (narration) and French with English subtitles, but it is worth watching because of the amazing energy innovation it shows. “Jean Pain – A French innovator who developed a compost based bio energy system that produced…
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Continue reading →: Dirt and Vegetables in Detroit
This video follows Greg Willerer of Detroit Dirt and Brother Nature Produce in Detroit who is trying to help build a viable food system in Detroit. As part of those efforts he’s trying to create a local compost network (he’s involved breweries, coffee houses and even the Detroit Zoo —…