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Growing Food, Waste »

[5 May 2009 | 37 Comments | ]
DIY Tumbling Compost Bin

Don’t spend hundreds of dollars on a store-bought tumbling compost bin – you can make one yourself for $25!

Electricity »

[10 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]

I just read an interesting article in ReNew Magazine Issue 104 about the guerrilla solar movement and one individual’s experiments with his unapproved DIY grid-connect solar panels.

It’s not as dangerous as it sounds. Solar guerrillas use commercial mains power inverters which meet the relevant international standards to feed their electricity into the grid. You plug [...]

Keeping Animals »

[17 Nov 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

When thinking about a coop for our chickens to live in, we wanted something practical, non-permanent, and space-efficient. We were only planning to have 3 or 4 chickens so we didn’t want to build anything too big or expensive, but we needed to protect them from neighbours’ cats and keep them comfortable.

Looking around the net, [...]