How to Make a Bee Skep

May 10, 2013

...s along with Mr. Spock’s Music From Outer Space and a classified 16mm film rocket test film from the 1950s. Should you not be so fortunate as to find a skep in your local thrift store, Modern Farmer Magazine has a post on how you can build your own. Looks like a fun project. How skeps are used The following series of videos show how skeps are used. Part 6 documents the steps leading up to the honey harvest. It’s a labor intensive process. To get a...

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Video Tour of the Root Simple Compound

Mr. Homegrown

May 22, 2013

Thoughtstylings

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...QXIwRTDqgE Johnny Sanphillippo from Faircompanies.com shot a nice video tour of our house. Excuses for the audio–it was shot during a very windy day. And I really need to get around to painting the garage! You’ll see our chicken coop. The video also features our rocket stove, horno and emergency potty plus a spin around the pantry. But the real star of this video is our 1920 bungalow. I wish they still build houses like this (sorry Dwell). Thank y...

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Getting started with worms

Mrs. Homegrown

August 29, 2014

Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...ng per week (1/10 square meter per half kg.) However, keeping worms is not rocket science, nor is it an exact science!–and whatever bin you choose can be made to work. Bin Types There are all sorts of commercial worm bins for sale, ready to use, like the Worm Factory and similar stacking systems. You can also make your bin yourself. Worms are not picky! Humans can worry themselves a lot over bin details and design, but as long as the worms have th...

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Brother, My Cup is Empty

Mr. Homegrown

May 29, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...why. In short it’s pathetic to explain why I don’t feel like writing a new rocket stove post when much better writers easily accessed the muses under far more difficult circumstances. As Cave puts it, John Wilmot penned his poetry Riddled with the pox Nabokov wrote on index cards At a lectern, in his socks St. John of the Cross did his best stuff Imprisoned in a box And Johnny Thunders was half alive When he wrote Chinese Rocks Our excuses? A kidn...

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093 Micheal Judd on Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist

Mr. Homegrown

September 21, 2016

Gardening, Permaculture, Podcasts

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...ntour Dealing with homeowner’s associations Pawpaws Custard apples InStove rocket stove Cocktails American persimmons Mulberries and grafting mulberries Jujubes Growing mushrooms Source for mushroom spawn: Field and Forest and Fungi Perfecti A permacultural approach to death and home burial If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our pod...

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