Permaculture Tips and Tricks
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Observe from your hammock | Guest (not verified) | Spend lots of time in the shade in your hammock! You can really get a good sense for how nature does things..read more | 08/16/2009 | 0 | |
Always add vitamins and electrolytes to water for newly hatched chicks! | Kirsten | Always add vitamins and electrolytes to water for newly hatched chicks. If they don't receive enough vitamin E in the first 8 weeks, or so, their brains may not develop properly; they may exhibit...read more | 07/21/2013 | 0 | |
Homemade Mosquito (or Fly) Catcher | Kirsten | Found this on facebook..Modern technology has brought us many benefits, including mosquito traps that cost hundreds of dollars, but sometimes we overlook simple solutions to difficult challenges such...read more | 08/11/2013 | 0 | |
Top 9 plants you can't kill in Texas | Kirsten | Birds & Blooms — America's # 1 Bird & Garden Magazine — has compiled a list of the top nine plants for Texas that are not only tough as nails, but pretty, too! So turn your black thumb into a...read more | 07/25/2013 | 0 | |
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 |