Saturday Tweets: Cats, Silicon Valley and DIY Bus Benches

December 1, 2018

...https://t.co/f7SiJFR6te — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 30, 2018 New #Podcast: Off-Grid Living with Doug and Stacy! https://t.co/Jk3AvObEjj Meet @2_off_the_grid – two folks living what I call the real American Dream. Learn about their adventures living on 11 acres in the midwest without electricity or running water! #homestead pic.twitter.com/n00fv7UsBd — Gardenerd (@gardenerd1) November 29, 2018 UK retailer offers Christmas trees for cat lov...

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How to Put Together a Small Scale Solar System

Mr. Homegrown

June 13, 2018

Podcasts, Solar, Water and Power

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...run a fountain or charge some tools? It seems like a simple question, and yet I can’t tell you how many books/magazines/websites I’ve combed through in search of a basic tutorial for anything less than wiring up a whole house. Now I know how thanks to a podcast conversation between Eric of Garden Fork and Will of the Weekend Homestead. Will describes how he rigged up a few panels and batteries to power lights and charge tools in his off-grid barn...

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Greywater 101

Mr. Homegrown

August 30, 2013

Water and Power, Water Conservation

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Survival Podcast intern Josiah Wallingford has started up a blog, Brink of Freedom, that I’m going to contribute to periodically. In my first post, Laundry to Landscape: How to Reuse Laundry Greywater, I discuss my own greywater system as well as the setup I installed at neighbor Lora’s house. Greywater has been one of the simplest and most rewarding projects at our homestead. And I’m looking forward to continuing the conversation over at the Bri...

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Homegrown on Homegrown

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2008

Resources

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Scooters? Not a New Idea

Mr. Homegrown

July 1, 2019

Transportation

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Sun, Oct 8, 1916 – Page 58 · New York Herald (New York, New York) · Newspapers.com It turns out the urban scooter craze isn’t a new idea. From a story in an October 8, 1916 newspaper, “Skidding Through Fact and Fancy on an Autoped: Solo Devil Wagon Taken Up in a Serious Way Might Add New Terrors to City Life” is a description of motorized scooter not all that different than the ones we see today: You stand on the cute platform and get your feet n...

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