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 [...]
It’s probably too soon for kids to be bored with summer break, but I’m going to start sharing some frugal kid-projects from around the net. I found a few posts about reusing small bits of crayons to make big crayons. Zakka Life used candy molds to recycle old crayons into cute shapes. Daily Danny melted [...]
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!
Erika sent me a link to this New York Times article about the Waterpod, a home built on a barge. They plan to make the 30×100 foot barge as self-sufficient as possible, with chickens, gardens, and power from a mix of solar, wind, and bicycle.
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
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.
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.
