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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Easiest Organic Control Of Cabbage Loopers and How Monsanto is Making it Ineffective On Corn
If you doubt this problem with BT GMO crops, check out this article
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/new-research-shows-failin_b_14003604.html
that references a research paper on Bt resistance in corn earworm. Granted this is a different crop and a different pest, but the mechanism is the same–the Cry proteins that eat up the intestines the larval stage of insects. Larvae becoming resistant to Cry proteins will make BT ineffective as pest control in corn, and will make use of BT on organic corn crops ineffective as well. The resistance in the GM crops is the result of conventional farmers not keeping a portion of their fields in non BT corn, and to be a haven for corn earworms without resistance to BT to survive and pass on their genes. If all the corn is BT the next generations will consist only of BT resistant earworms.
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Simple Wastewater Treatment for Off-grid Water System
When I got back from being away for the winter I found that my water pump was no longer able to pump water out of my cistern. In my house, I drink and use rainwater caught off my gutters and stored in an 1100 gallon cistern underground. In this video, I try to figure out why I’m not getting any water. Was it the -18°F temps over the winter or something else that caused the problem?
My Devastated Garden and Summoning My Inner Elmer Fudd
Despite the fact that I live in a place called Dancing Rabbit, I find rabbits to be the worst pest we have in our area. Without a fence around your garden and good protective cages around your fruit trees, you don’t stand a chance of growing your own food. In the last couple of years I’ve had a lot of trouble keeping rabbits out of my garden because my fence was less than reliable. This season my goal was to get some real fencing in my garden and finally make my garden rabbit free. Here’s why, with the help of Home Depot, I failed.
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Making Organic Onion Sets From Your Favorite Varieties
Vital Permaculture Skill: Grafting Pears and Apples
Grafting is a vital permaculture skill to learn, and though it may seem complicated and tricky, once you get the hang of it and know the tricks, it is incredibly easy. It opens up a whole new world of potential for your plantings on your land. In this video I follow the progression of my pear and apple grafts through the season.
Harvesting the Smells of Permaculture
Permaculture is all about making the human landscape more natural and productive for our benefit. When people think about a permaculture harvest, they don’t often think about anything but the physical produce, such as fruit or vegetables. There is so much more that comes from our altering of the landscape to suit our needs. The delicious scents of plants might not be tangible, but the benefits they can bring to our lives are. Get out and enjoy them while you can, just like you’d enjoy homegrown sweet corn, or a wild persimmon.
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