The following posts are simple step-by-step or how-to guides that you can follow.
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How-To Guides Series: Indoor Composting Composting at home – Vermicompost (Part 2)
In vermicomposting, a symbiosis of earthworms and microorganisms is used to transform organic matter into nutrient-dense vermicompost. In this article I explain how this works and how to run a vermicomposting system.
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How-To Guides Series: Indoor Composting Composting at home – Introduction (Part 1)
Kitchen scraps are a valuable, nutrient-rich resource that you an easily turn into black gold within the constraints of your apartment. In this article series I explain how to do this using worms and fermentation.
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How-To Guides Food & Preservation Quick Vegetable Stock
Vegetable Stock is a fundamental ingredient for many people – it allows us to easily add taste to almost anything. This recipe shows you how to make your very own delicious vegetable stock.
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How-To Guides Natural Living How to Reduce Your Trash
This post was first published in October 2015 and updated in March 2018. Reducing or, at best, eliminating plastic trash from your life is one thing everyone can do to help make our planet a more...
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How-To Guides Tools & Technologoy Building a Clay Pizza Oven
A clay oven is a great feature that allows you to bake your own delicious pizzas, breads, cakes, and whatever you can think of. Charlotte and I just built one for the Wangunsari Permaculture Project...
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How-To Guides Gardening & Stewardship Banana Circles
Banana circles are a popular design element in tropical permaculture – for good reason! A banana circle is essentially a concave ditch filled with organic material, surrounded by a mound that is...
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How-To Guides Food & Preservation How to make Kombucha
Kombucha is a drink made from fermented green tea that enjoys a great reputation among many people as a health boosting beverage. Kombucha is said to come from China where it gained the name...
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How-To Guides Gardening & Stewardship Simple Raised Beds
Raised garden beds are a very simple and effective way to establish beds that provide a fertile ground for your plants, drain well, and are easily accessible. Raised beds are especially suited to...
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How-To Guides Natural Living Biodegradable Body Hygiene Products
In a recent post we shared some ideas how to replace your conventional cleaning agents with cheaper, biodegradable, homemade alternatives. Body hygiene products often contain a large number of...
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How-To Guides Tools & Technologoy Solar Food Dehydrator
A solar dehydrator is a great piece of low-cost, easy-to-build, and highly effective technology. It can be used for drying anything from fruits and vegetables to herbs and leaves or seeds or anything...