Sustainable Living Skills You Need to Survive
It might not seem so serious to the average consumer in the First World, but the future of the world as we know hangs in the balance. The media is full of bad news that can make changing things for the better seem hopeless, but there are simple and radical things you can do to reduce your impact and set an example for others. It's not just a choice, our survival depends on it.
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A Permaculture Use For Comfrey You Might Not Know
Using the characteristics of plants in ways that are symbiotic with other plants and that help the gardener and the garden is one of the foundations of permaculture. I learned this trick from some other people at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage who have been applying comfrey in this way in their gardens.
My Vineyard Has the Same Pest That Wiped Out French Vineyards in the 1800s
This is a later season tour of my vineyard, when many of the grapes are getting very close to harvest. It’s been a good season, without much rain, which, though bad for almost everything else on the farm, is good for the grapes.
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Mini Pomegranate? What is This Strange Permaculture Fruit?
I’ve been growing a strange fruit for the last few years in my flower garden, but it also produces a fairly tasty and nutritious fruit. Got any guesses as to what it might be? This video is a little tour of a few unusual fruits perfect for a temperate zone permaculture planting.
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Tropical Summer Greens in My Midwestern Garden
This is a little tour of my garden later in the summer. I started some tropical plants to grow for the midsummer heat and they are thriving. But I’ve also been having some problems with critters eating my regular temperate crops, such as corn. My ideal would be to grow enough corn to provide for my needs, even while I phase out rice in favor of the crop that I can actually easily grow in my part of the country. But if I lose most of the crop to the critters, then maybe it isn’t such a good crop to grow. What will I have to do to be able to get a good crop?
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How I Keep My Tiny House Cool (With Almost No AC) In the Heat of Summer
It gets pretty hot in Missouri during the summertime. And living entirely off renewable energy it doesn’t have to be a challenge to stay comfortable on those 90°F+ dog days. There are simple things you can do to minimize your use of air conditioning–one of the biggest contributors to climate change. Nature has provided us with many options to keep ourselves cool. We just have to make the connections and implement the systems.
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