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March's Most Popular Articles...
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The Pot-in-Pot Refrigerator: Zeer: For most of us a fridge in the kitchen is an essential: how else can you keep your food fresh? Or cool your drinking water on hot summer days? But a… [1086 views in Mar]
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Grow Your Own Cabbages, Cauliflower, Broccoli and Sprouts: Brassicas enjoy a well-cultivated soil that’s rich in organic matter, such as homemade compost or well-rotted manure.… [930 views in Mar]
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Self-Sufficient Energy: In today’s society it’s difficult to live entirely without electricity. We use electricity to power our lights, cookers, fridges, televisions, hairdryers, and heat… [850 views in Mar]
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Make Your Own Tofu: Tofu is a high protein food that is packed with minerals and vitamins. It is made from soy milk, which comes from soy beans. Soy beans are a versatile source of protein… [762 views in Mar]
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Generate your Own Power: It is foreseen that a significant percentage of power (optimists say as much as 40%!) will be generated in the home by 2050, using energy generators, principally… [654 views in Mar]
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Keeping a Goat: Keeping a goat is a good way of providing your household with fresh milk, yoghurt and cheese, and it will take up less space than keeping a cow. If you keep you goat… [606 views in Mar]
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Allotments: History of Allotments, Getting an Allotment, What Not to Do in Your...
Around the Home: Generate your Own Power, Making Your Own Bread, The Pot-in-Pot...
Case Studies: Home Composting and Growing Vegetables: A Case Study, Our First Year...
Energy & Water: Self-Sufficient Energy, Using Grey Water in Your Home, Using...
Food & Drink: Make Your Own Tofu, Make Your Own Pasta, Make Your Own Beer, Make...
Foraging: All about Foraging, Foraging for Berries, Foraging for Wild Greens,...
Grow Herbs & Salad: Grow Your Own Salad, Grow Your Own Tomatoes, How To Grow Asparagus,...
Grow Vegetables: Grow Your Own Onions, Garlic, Leeks, Grow Your Own Squash Plants,...
Grow Your Own: Why Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables?, What You Can't Grow, Why...
Grow Your Own Berries: Grow Your Own Berries, Grow Your Own Bla...
Keeping Animals: Keeping a Goat, Keeping Cows and Livestock, Keeping Chickens in Your...
Money: Doing Car Boot Sales, Making the Most of Your Library, Living a...
Natural Remedies: All about Natural Remedies, Most Common Natural Remedies, Natural...
Latest Comments
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Tishy
Re: Foraging for Wild Greens
Please don't touch hogweed, I have had nasty burns and blisters from cutting them down and being sprayed by with the sap
14 February 2015 -
GoSelfSufficient
Re: Using Rainwater in Your Home
@Steve - yes rainwater while fresh and uncontaminated when coming from the sky, can be contaminated from sitting in a water butt.
15 January 2015 -
Steve
Re: Using Rainwater in Your Home
Just a quick, simple question: Is it safe to use water butt rain water for washing dishes? I would have thought that since the…
14 January 2015 -
Lovie
Re: Home Composting and Growing Vegetables: A Case Study
I am a photographer from India. I have been doing a photo essay on people leading self sustained…
12 January 2015 -
Oliver
Re: Make Your Own Tofu
Hello to you, All perfectly sensible until we get to the "make sure the soya beans are not GM" What in the name of all the holy is the…
11 October 2014 -
FIDDLERJON
Re: Make Your Own Soap
Distilled water. But it works just fine with bottled. I have seen some recipes use tap water, but the chemicals in tap water are not good for…
6 October 2014 -
Fussy
Re: Beginner's Guide to Bee Keeping
Sorry but you really must change your photo of the bee - that is a bumble bee quite different and much larger than the honey…
26 September 2014 -
Nanny
Re: All about Foraging
Is there anything I can do with the black berries on my bay trees?
24 September 2014 -
MBSLynne
Re: Make Your Own Beer
I've made my own beer but want it to be quick and easy so instead of messing around with the barley etc, I buy a jar of malt extract. Nettles…
5 September 2014 -
Aquarius
Re: Using Rainwater in Your Home
You need to get a tap and connector pipe off that running into the house. It is about plumbing... I am about to connect up two…
24 August 2014
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