Smith and Hawken is selling these vertical gardens (looks like they’re sold out). I’ve been trying to figure out how to go vertical with strawberries without going broke - I think I could make a cheaper version of this kind of system. It also doesn’t look all that stable on its own; something freestanding would [...]
The City of Seattle has a surplus warehouse - they currently have leftover street signs, used parking meters, typewriters, other odd stuff. I also found a link there to Public Surplus, an online clearinghouse of stuff from all over the country - there’s a spot on the right to check for surplus auctions in your [...]
Wow - I wouldn’t have thought that gutters could hold enough dirt to grow actual vegetables! (though I’ve had little ferns grow in mine) This gutter garden belongs to Cornelia, who posted on Homegrown. This is a great use for salvaged gutters, and I love how it looks against the house. I’d be a bit [...]
It’s not enough to just survive in a recession, thriving is important too - as Emma Goldman may have said (and Alan Moore did say), a revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having. Even as so many of us are struggling just to make ends meet, humans still seem to have a basic [...]
Last year I did a webby-looking twine support for my green beans - it worked really well, plus it was entertaining to look at while waiting for the beans to grow. When the season was over and I took down the dead vines, the twine had rotted and came right down, too. This year I [...]
Josh Kopel made this great light fixture from stuff he found at the Seattle RE Store.
One of the points on our Genteel Recessionista Atlas Salvage map (look! link over there on the right!) is for the Seattle RE Store. The RE Store buys and sells salvage - they’re a non-profit, so you can get tax receipts for your donations, or get in-store credit. They’re great about helping you find what you [...]
