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Field to Farm Vidéo (streaming) - Notre pain quotidien Des images valent parfois tous les discours. Quand je regarde Notre pain quotidien, ma première réflexion est de penser que cette devise à été écrite pour ce film documentaire. Ici, en effet, pas d’artifices, pas d’effets spéciaux. Pas de musique, non plus, donc pas d’ambiance ou d’effet provoqué, pas de dramatisation. Pas même de commentaires ou de narration ! Des images. Précisément où le consommateur n’a aucune chance de pénétrer. Filmées en plan fixe, les images donnent une impression de distance par rapport au sujet, de froideur presque clinique. Deux thèmes sont abordés par Notre pain quotidien : Le premier et principal de ces thèmes est la production de nourriture telle qu’elle est aujourd’hui massivement effectuée, c’est à dire de manière ultra-intensive, dans le but de réduire les coûts, et de maximiser la production et les profits. Dans une moindre mesure, le film nous montre la place des machines dans cette production alimentaire via l’automatisation à outrance.

Building StrawBale Houses Strawbale houses are cheap, easy to build and can be put up in a relatively short period of time. Strawbale houses are usually made by stacking rows of straw bales with a moisture barrier between the bales and the supporting platform. Building with bales of straw has become very popular and can be seen in many areas of the Southwestern United States. Straw is a renewable building material and is a great insulator from the elements. Strawbale Homes Strawbale Resources: Foraging It’s acorn season in Southern California. I’ve long been interested in acorns, knowing that they were the staple food of the native people who lived here, and I’ve gathered and processed them before. However, once I have the acorn meal, I’ve never known exactly what to do with it. It’s highly nutritious, but I thought (wrongly!) that it was somewhat bland, and all I could do was incorporate acorn meal into baked goods. Pascal and Mia putting out a spread: acorn sliders, acorn and tapioca pudding, red cabbage and red onion slaw with wild juniper berries, chocolate truffles infused with white sage and dusted with dehydrated raspberry powder, plum membrillo and beer hopped with yarrow. Pascal and Mia are high caliber foragers and foodies. It’s rare to find folks who combine deep food know-how with a love of wild foods. I’ve downed a lot of veggie burgers in my time, and I’ve come to think of them mostly as excuse to eat bread and condiments. Continue reading…

rainwater harvesting There’s a lot of advice floating around the internets about how to make a rain barrel. Most barrel pundits suggest drilling a hole in the bottom of a barrel and installing a faucet, a kind of connection called a “bulkhead fitting”. Unfortunately such improvised fittings have a tendency to leak. My favorite way to make a rain barrel is to take a 55 gallon drum, use the preexisting fittings on the top and turn it upside down, a process explained nicely here (complete with a list of parts), by B. To get started, you get a ubiquitous 55 gallon drum with two threaded “bung” holes that look like this: A good source for this kind of barrel is your local car wash. Glue that up with some PVC cement, wrap the threads with teflon tape, and you’re almost ready to collect rainwater. The last step is to prop the barrel up on some wood or concrete blocks to give some clearance for your hose connection and some extra elevation for a gravity assist to help push the water through a garden hose.

Top 10 Most Influential Cob Builders | This Cob House It’s time to take a look into the world of natural building by looking at some of the most influential cob builders. You might have heard of some of these people before as they’ve demonstrated their craft and expertise in the field. Many of them you might just be hearing about for the first time. 1. www.cobcottage.com Ianto is the director of the North American School of Natural Building and master teacher and builder at the Cob Cottage Company in Coquille, Oregon. Laughing House at the Cob Cottage Company, Coquille, Oregon 2. www.risingearthbuilding.blogspot.com Mike followed through the apprentice program at the Cob Cottage Company in 2008. Chapel Hill, North Carolina 3. www.cobandon.blogspot.com Greg was born and raised in Syracuse, NY, and studied design at Syracuse University. Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute, North Carolina (photo courtesy of ourgreengoodlife.org) 4. Cobgobatron 5. www.naturalbuildingresources.com Cornwall, UK. 6. www.emeraldearth.org 7. 8. 9.

Home - Simple Solar Homesteading Gregory Kloehn: California designer turns a DUMPSTER into into his Brooklyn getaway complete with a toilet, stove and sun deck By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 05:58 GMT, 9 August 2013 | Updated: 11:26 GMT, 9 August 2013 A California designer has turned a $2,000 dumpster into a fully functional home, complete with a bathroom, bed, kitchen and sun deck. Gregory Kloehn converted the dumpster in Brooklyn off of a hunch, and now he uses it whenever he stays in New York. 'It just hit me,' he said on HGTV's show, 'You Live in What?' Scroll down for video Gregory Kloehn describes his 'dumpster home' to a reporter, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, in the Red Hook neighborhood of New York's Brooklyn borough Gregory Kloehn preps his mini bar outside his home.The artist purchased a new dumpster and retrofitted it to be his dwelling when he stays in New York City Kloehn sits inside the living space of his dumpster, which is also where he sleeps Right at home: Gregory Kloehn sits inside the living space For drinking water, he installed a six-gallon water tank on the roof. A small grill is also attached to the outside of the dumpster.