Making It

...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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Saturday Linkages: The Usual Suspects–Goats, Bikes and Tiny Houses

....com/2013/05/3d-printed-track-bike.html#.UZO-C2bKjeA.twitter … Goats, Just Goats Goats in the house: modernfarmer.com/2013/05/farmer-mistakes-goats-in-the-house/ … Moving Susan Orlean: The Power of Walking While Working http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/05/20/130520fa_fact_orlean?mbid=social_retweet … Streetfacts #4: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam http://www.streetfilms.org/streetfacts-4-children-have-lost-the-freedom-to-roam/#.UY_N3...

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Saturday Linkages: Goats, Chainsaws and a Big Blue Rooster

...3/wKFLUf0kLNU/humanist-bathroom-tiny-stuff-holder.html … Livestock Put The Goats To Work? http://hencam.com/thevintagehen/2013/07/put-the-goats-to-work/ … How Long Do Chickens Live? | HenCam http://hencam.com/faq/2012/10/how-long-do-chickens-live-2/ … Woman fined for letting horse poop inside UK McDonald’s http://barfblog.com/2013/07/woman-fined-for-letting-horse-poop-inside-uk-mcdonalds/ … Be careful out there . . . Chainsaws — Can We Talk? http:...

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A Homemade Mattress?

...the wool. It took her about 6 hours to fill the mattress. 3) Here is a webpage, in French, showing the mattress making process. Lots of useful pictures. I have to run it through Google Translate for more clues. 4) Do not fall for the eHow result if you search for how to make a wool mattress. It gets off to a great start by recommending you use glue, rather than stitching, to construct your mattress tick . (They call the tick a “fabric sheet pouch...

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