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How To Make Your Own Simple, Cheap And Toxin-Free Body Hygiene Products
Body hygiene products often contain a large number of dubious substances such as artificial perfumes, microplastic, silica, aluminium and a…
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How to make Kombucha
Kombucha is a drink made from fermented green tea that enjoys a great reputation among many people as a health…
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Why Meditation Is Worth The Time
Despite the fact that meditation is supposed to be this groovy, relaxing thing, I used to feel somewhat intimidated by…
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10 (Temperate Climate) Pond Edge Plants
In permaculture, water is one of the primary concerns because all life, from animals to plants to fungi to bacteria…
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Fun Facts of Peppers and Hot Sauce Recipes
There are a lot of things out in the world to which people become addicted, but hot sauce isn’t one…
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Making The Most Of What We Harvest
It’s nearing the end of our main growing season here in North Carolina. Halfway through October, our tomato plants are…
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Wild about Persimmons
I didn’t grow up eating persimmons. Somehow they made it into my vocabulary but never my diet. My British wife…
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Will this Type of Agriculture Feed Your Grandchildren?
You know that a system of agriculture is truly sustainable when the harvest occurs—increasingly abundantly—as a by-product of ecosystem regeneration.…
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Greywater Problem? Plant Food Solution!
Moving into a new rental house (again), it was time to unroll the hose snaking from the recently arrived washing…
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8 plants that keep bugs far away from your house
Your house is your sanctuary. You wouldn’t want uninvited guests invading your privacy. No, we are not talking about people.…
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Seedballs – Part 2
Following on from my ‘Seedballs part 1’ article, we can explore a little how we can use seedballs within education.…
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A Rocky Relationship
For the second time this year, I’m in the midst of transferring the rocks of a felled chimney to our…
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