Weeds into Fertilizer

...hat stinky things, when applied in the garden, are often very good things. Cleaning the chicken coop always produces a good product for the garden. Nettles, like comfrey, are good at taking up minerals and other nutrients from the soil. Nettles are rich in iron, silica, calcium, nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. These are all things that plants need for healthy growth. This makes nettles useful for making your own fertilizer. They can accumulate...

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Picture Sundays: Root Simple Compound Caught On Google Street View

...t Google Street View, back in April, caught me in the act of contemplating cleaning the garage. You can tell from my posture that I’m in the intellectual rather than the physical stage of garage sorting. In the front yard the fruit trees have leafed out, clarkia is blooming in the sparse parkway, the nopal is loaded with immature fruit and the roses have yet to climb the entrance arbor. If only I had a Root Simple banner and and an alpaca to take...

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Introducing the People Washer

...he water intake automatically shuts off and the hot water begins to whirl, cleaning the body even more thoroughly. While the water whirls, small rubber balls float around in the water, massage the skin, and relax the muscles. After seven minutes of washing and rubber-ball massage, the bath water drains from the sphere and the body is reshowered for two minutes. The shower and the ultrasonic waves cease and the water is drained out. Finally there i...

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Essential System #5 – First Aid Kit

...t of other things Any prescription medications that you take Syringe – for cleaning out wounds – you can also improvise this with a water bottle Antibiotic cream If you already have a first aid kit you can pimp it out with a few of these items. We can’t emphasize enough the importance of large bandage material such as the sanitary napkins. One acquaintance of ours who was unlucky enough to have been severely cut by falling glass in the Northridge...

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Everything Must Go Part II: Books

...of I came to much the same conclusion as Nassim Taleb does in this tweet: Cleaning my library facing Lindy effect. Lit, philosophy & mathematics don’t age/ age slowly. Nonfiction, “science” books died.~All of them. — Nassim NicholنTaleb (@nntaleb) January 5, 2015 If time passes and a book get more relevant it’s likely to stay relevant (this is the Lindy effect Taleb is referring to). Just like Taleb, the books on philosophy and theology stayed in...

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