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87Dwarf Fruit Trees in the Home Orchard
When planning your kitchen garden consider adding a couple of dwarf fruit trees. These small trees grow very well in small, urban areas, and will produce alot of full size, fruit. Concerns with the food supply, its effect on the environment, and buying locally, it seems natural to grow your own.
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77GREEN DREAM HOME: Earthship
. One of the most interesting, artistic and special ideas for building the green, sustainable home is - EARTHSHIP. It is great solution for the enhusiasts to build such home (very cheap if there is group...
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81How To Build An Earthship
What do you get when you put together pop cans, glass bottles, old tires, chicken wire and concrete? Would you believe, it's a house? This would be a special earth friendly house design called an Earth...
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75Ducks Have a Place on the Sustainable Homestead
Why would ducks have a place on the sustainable homestead? In previous eras ducks were an important part oif most established farms. They might not be the first animal brought to the farm but they were on...
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90The 10 Top Homesteading Sites
Homesteading is somewhat a solitary activity by the sheer definition of it. When, in the 1970's people were heading into the wild and woolly backwoods of Canada, Alaska, and Montana, they accepted that...
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69Plastic Bottle Numbers: What do they Mean?
The numbers with the recycling symbol around them on the bottom of plastic bottles are part of the resin identification coding system made by the Society of Plastics Industry. Each number simply tells you...
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69How to Start a Community Market in Your Neighbourhood
Its easy to get a market started, all you need is a passion for your community development, plenty of perseverence and a little spare time. Recruit supporters You can definitely get a market started on...
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84How-to Till, or Cultivate, a Garden
Everyone knows that quality soil in the garden is one of the most important steps in harvesting loads of fresh, nutritious, organic vegetables. For some people, raised in the past couple of decades without the benefit of home grown produce, tilling is a confusing thing. When do you start? How do you do it? And can you cut your toes off?
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87How-To Split Firewood
You should think about the size of your fireplace when initially cutting the wood. Wood stoves and the average modern fireplace will take a 16-20 inch log. Cut it as short as you can because short logs are by far easier to split than long ones. Cut it so that the ends are cut straight, rather than angled. This will make it much easier to split later.
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79Real Life in Bulgaria - Molly's Story
Molly shares the experiences and insights she has gained from buying her houses in the Tutrakan region of Bulgaria and detailed descriptions of the pros and cons of buying in some of the villages in the area. Great photos
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