How to Remove Bees from a Wall

October 5, 2015

...p made with a 50/50 mix of water and white sugar. This keeps the bees busy cleaning themselves so that you can gently brush them into a dust pan and transfer them into their new bee box. Some people use specially adapted vacuums to suck the bees off the comb and out of cavities. You have to be careful if you do this as it’s easy to injure the bees. Once the comb and as many stray worker bees as you can coax out of the wall cavity were in the box,...

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The Primitive Technology Guy

Mr. Homegrown

December 27, 2016

Appropriate Technology, Water and Power

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...send and Son 18th century YouTube cooking hole, where we’re learning about cleaning pots with brick dust and how to make Norfolk dumplings on the go. Australian reader Jampotts reminded me of another wildly popular YouTuber who just goes by the handle “Primitive Technology.” The anonymous creator of the these wordless videos, shot in northern extreme of Queensland, Australia uses a “show me don’t tell me” philosophy of film making that I greatly a...

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Talk and Vermicomposting Workshop With Nance Klehm Sunday March 8th!

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2020

Events, Gardening, Permaculture, Vermiculture

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...ng things. It is the living sponge that filters our water and air, thereby cleaning them both. It stabilizes our constructions, prevents flooding, protects our landscapes against drought, and ensures the health of our food, water and air. Soil is not a thing. It is a web of relationships that stands in a certain state of a certain time.” — Nance Klehm Bonus option! Stay after the talk for a short workshop taught by Nance on vermicomposting, that i...

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Kitchen KonMari Session, Illustrated

Mr. Homegrown

March 9, 2017

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...frequently used items on more accessible shelves. Ironically, the kitchen cleaning session overlapped with the lunch hour preventing meal preparation. We decamped to a local Mexican restaurant for a meeting with a friend and Kelly finished this KonMari session on her own later. I’d call it a victory but we’ve still got to tackle the pantry. [An editorial note from Mrs. Homegrown: First, I cannot believe he has shared this cat hair business with t...

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2015 Resolutions

Mrs. Homegrown

January 1, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...roject for Erik and Kelly: Refurbishing the kitchen: new paint, new floor, cleaning everything up. We’ve been putting this off, and it needs to be done this year. Preferably in the first quarter of the year. Erik’s 2015 resolutions Write a whole grain ebook. Now that I can make a decent whole grain loaf it’s time to see if I can teach it. Take an electronics class. I’ve built circuits in the past but I can’t say that I fully understand how they wo...

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