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How to Homestead

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...ead videos to stream or download. No longer relegated to the rural sphere, homesteading can be done anywhere and we are here to show you how.” With many homesteading activities, from chicken slaughtering to tortellini making, internet based video is a useful resource when you don’t have a friend or relative to show you a skill first hand. Kudos to the How to Homesteaders and we look forward to future episodes on this nicely designed site. To celeb...

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The Smell of Bees

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Animals, Bees
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...wall next door to my friend’s house. If you know what this smell is, please leave a comment as I’ve been unable to find a good answer. I’m guessing that it’s a mixture of many smells: fermenting honey, pollen, wax, propolis, pheromones, etc. And I’m sure that the bees can parse out these smells as easily as we skip around the internet. Micheal Thiele describes beehives as, “a giant nose.” To us this hive smell is a complex mixture of smell notes,...

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Getting Those Bees Back to the Garden

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Animals, Bees, Thoughtstylings
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...rial beekeepers and the role these practices play in the overall health of bees. This is not even to mention the profligate use of water to grow almonds. Johnny said that these beehives reminded him of Stalinist apartment blocks he photographed on a recent trip to the Ukraine. I don’t intend this to be an editorial against the Langstroth hive (I think you can use a Langstroth responsibly but certainly not in the concentrations seen in these pictur...

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SIPS and Kraut at Project Butterfly

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...our community and our planet. Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead, have become increasingly interested in the concept of urban sustainability since moving to Los Angeles in 1998. In that time, they’ve slowly converted their 1920 hilltop bungalow into a mini-farm, and along the way have explored the traditional home arts of baking, pickling, bicycling and brewing, chronicling all their activities on their blog Homegrown Evo...

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