I really love Trace Ramsey’s writing at Cricket Bread; I’m always learning something over on his blog - this essay about becoming a farmer is a great example of the poetry and heart in his prose. He recently did a status update on his hugelkultur raised beds - I’d never heard of them before. They’re [...]
Ikea Hacker has a great chicken coop constructed with parts from an Ikea bunk bed, storage unit, and bottle rack.
I’ve always really liked the proportions of Satsuma crates, and the labels are often charming, too. During a recent closet cleaning, I ran across one I’d tucked away and realized it would make a really cute mini-container garden.
I lined the box with a recycled plastic bag and poked some holes in it over the holes [...]
Erika sent me a link to this neat bottle wall the Sustainable Scientist is building. They’re using a variety of beer bottles in a wooden frame - it’s designed so the bottles are replaceable if they get broken.
Andru in the UK built his own version of a plastic bottle greenhouse. He got his bottles through Freecycle, a great idea!
Here are some great plans for a recycled plastic bottle greenhouse from REAP, an organization in Scotland that works for sustainable development. via Hyperlocavore via Kitchen Mage
Yesterday the caterpillar left the stick and went under the leaves. By evening, it had started making a cocoon - I could never catch it in the act, when I disturbed it at all, it got vewy vewy quiet. But this morning it was finished. It looks like a strange little needle-felted bead. I’ll post [...]
Homegrown Evolution has a good roundup up of washing machine greywater resources. I’ve thought about doing this, but my washer is in the basement, below ground level, and that makes things a lot more complicated.
Day two of Caterpillar in Captivity! I found some clover this morning, but when I checked on the caterpillar, it was clinging to the underside of the grape stem and not moving. You can see a bit of webby stuff on the stick - I’m hoping it’s beginning to make a cocoon and the issue [...]
Any entomologists out there? I found this guy this afternoon - I’d love to know what he is, so I can keep him inside and we can watch him change. I found him under the edge of a porch step, not on any plants, so I have no idea what to feed him to keep [...]
