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SolSource Review Part I: Assembly

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Appropriate Technology, Solar, Solar Oven Summer, Water and Power
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When we wrote our second book, Making It, I wanted to include a parabolic solar cooker project. I found a castoff satellite TV dish and covered it with aluminum foil. The problem was how to position a cooking surface in front of it while simultaneously tracking the sun. If you knew how to weld this might be possible– if still a challenging project. I just couldn’t figure out a way to do it without custom welding and gave up on my dream of solar g...

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How to Search for Science-Based Gardening Advice

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Gardening
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...ting to “agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutrition.” Biosis–A citation index for the life sciences. Web of Science–information in “sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.” GREENfile–“draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollutio...

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043 Growing Vegetables with Yvonne Savio

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Gardening, Podcasts, Vegetable Gardening
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...isode of the podcast we pick her brain about: Why you should grow your own food. Favorite vegetables. How to harvest vegetables. How to prepare a vegetable garden. Making compost. The problems with municipal compost. Raised beds vs. growing in the ground. Where to buy soil. Testing soil. How to irrigate vegetables in a drought. Buried buckets for watering vegetables. Seeds vs. seedlings. Succession planting. How to plant seedlings. The website and...

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Best veggies to cook in a solar oven

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Food, Recipes, Solar Oven Summer
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...ar oven cooking are, for me, those vegetables I happily eat steamed. These foods also happen to be very summery vegetables, well suited to backyard entertaining and as companions to grilled foods: Potatoes Artichokes Corn on the cob Baked potatoes and lentil stew HOW TO: Baked Potatoes This is the easiest of the easy. Just wash off a couple of big russets and tuck them into a covered pan. Potatoes cook in about 4 hours when temps are approximately...

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Biodynamic Composting Workshop

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...n how to create your own compost! Compost builds soil, creates life, grows food and saves the planet! In this hands-on workshop we’ll build a compost pile out of materials commonly available in Southern California. We’ll also cover the use of and apply Steiner’s biodynamic preps. Our workshop will be led by Erik Knutzen of Root Simple. Erik Knutzen is the author, with his wife Kelly Coyne, of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for...

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