Make Mag

June 5, 2009

Events

...rs are terrific — we can start at home to remake manufacturing, education, food production, transportation, and recreation. In MAKE Volume 18 you’ll learn how to make an automatic garden, heat your water with the sun, monitor and share your home energy usage, and more.” Here’s just a few of the many exciting projects: Chicago comrade Nancy Klehm tells you how to compost human waste. Homegrown Evolution has an article on how to install a drip irrig...

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Cutting a Beehive Out of a Wall

Mr. Homegrown

November 18, 2009

Animals, Bees

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...ss, Sue and property owner Jen When we got back to Sue’s garden we put the frames into a hive box and dumped the loose bees in. While we won’t know for a while if the hive will take to its new home, we all felt a great sense of accomplishment. Hopefully, other urbanites around the world will take up beekeeping and put more exterminators out of work. For more info on Kirk Anderson’s natural beekeeping methods see www.beehuman.blogspot.com. Got a be...

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Saturday Tweets: A Wacky Week

Mr. Homegrown

July 16, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...//t.co/lFNgzheylY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2016 Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests https://t.co/sC98D5n4XW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2016 Drones to unleash vaccine-laced M&Ms in bid to save endangered ferrets https://t.co/3qgoli6bFq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 12, 2016 Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try. https://t.co/q0xRSrFqtF via @grist — Root Simple (@r...

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