Permaculture Tips and Tricks
Welcome to Permaculture Tips and Tricks - please post your tips here
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| Use a clothes line instead of your dryer | Guest (not verified) |
Hanging your clothes to dry on the clothes line has many benefits - for starters, it saves energy, money, and time. It's especially good in the summer to keep your house from being heated up by the...read more |
07/12/2009 | 0 | |
| Selling Backyard Eggs (not at a Farmer's Market) - Rules, Regulations, Licenses, etc. | Kirsten | I sent three emails to various agencies asking for clarification on selling eggs. Here's the reply from the one agency who had a substantive reply. Please note that I edited his email address at the...read more | 07/25/2013 | 1 | |
| Organic Gardening Rules | Kirsten | By Tom Harris, Ph.D.The Hill Country GardenerMalcolm Beck is a San Antonio organic gardening guru who is known all over the country. Over the last 50+ years he has developed six basic rules for...read more | 08/4/2013 | 0 | |
| Soil Amendments | Kirsten | When we create organic gardens we usually add rock dust and other things to make the soil better for gardening. These amendments are intended to support the soil food web, rather than harming it.The...read more | 07/21/2013 | 0 | |
| Cleanup small oil spill | Guest (not verified) | If you ever have an oil spill or really anything that isn’t an elemental poison (lead, mercury, cadmium, etc.) in an area near where you’re growing food drench it with molasses and water or, if it’s...read more | 08/25/2010 | 0 | |
| Automating Your Poultry Coop (De Rerum Automatica) | Kirsten | Kibi78704's (Kirsten's) Preface:Treadle Feeders: Last year, when I started raising chickens, I saw this article on how to build a treadle chicken feeder, like the one advertised at http://www....read more | 08/11/2013 | 0 | |
| A Southern Night story | Kirsten | Growing tomatoes in the hot, humid south is an intricate dance of planting in raised beds to avoid floods, dodging diseases and beating the heat. But, the rewards are huge. I spent a decade growing...read more | 07/25/2013 | 0 | |
| The Sunny Side of Cooking solar cookbook now available | Guest (not verified) | What if there was a year-round method of cooking that was low cost, powered by sunlight, non-polluting, and easy to do even in college dorms, apartment balconies and off-the-grid locations?There is:...read more | 01/8/2013 | 0 | |
| Mesquite Pod Harvesting | Kirsten | Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) trees often get a bad reputation because of their thorns. They are very useful trees, with high-protein, edible pods that can be made into flour for human...read more | 09/1/2013 | 0 | |
| Possible to raise chickens without feed? | Kirsten | BTW - My chickens have been living on H&H Non-Soy Layer feed for a few months now. They love it. Because the protein supplements have been semi-pelletized, there is less waste than when I was...read more | 07/25/2013 | 0 |
