Ikea Hacker has a great chicken coop constructed with parts from an Ikea bunk bed, storage unit, and bottle rack.
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Ikea chicken coop
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Recycled salad box
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 [...]
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Chicken Whisperer podcasts
Andy Schneider, the Chicken Whisperer (ha!), has a series of podcasts on Blog Talk Radio - today’s is about backyard poultry laws.
Beer bottle wall
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.
Making cheese at home
Greening of Gavin has a really interesting post on how to make cheese at home. I tried this once with disastrous results, but he looks like he knows what he’s doing.
Another plastic bottle greenhouse
Andru in the UK built his own version of a plastic bottle greenhouse. He got his bottles through Freecycle, a great idea!
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Fixing appliances
I have a fairly old toaster, about 20 years old, and it’s starting to take a long time to toast things. I don’t really want to pay someone to fix it, if I could even find someone who does repairs on what’s considered a disposable appliance. I’d love to not just buy a new one [...]
Washing machine greywater resources
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.
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Deluxe cat bed from junk
Ki Nassauer from Junk Revolution is doing awesome stuff with junk again - she made this totally adorable four-poster cat bed from an old table. Oliver the cat looks quite pleased.
Also posted in Craft, Creativity, Recycled Tagged crafts, cute, furniture, making things, Recycled, salvage 3 Comments
Vertical gardening with tubes o’ dirt!
I had a strawberry plant explosion this year - a few plants out back turned into hundreds, sending out runners and making little plants everywhere, even in my little bit of lawn! I’ve been digging them up and putting them in pots, giving them away; I even sold a box of them at our yard [...]