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Your Own Honey Cow Beekeeping is an ancient DIY art, practiced by amateurs and makers for centuries. Anyone can produce natural honey at home by making their own hive. Here’s how to build a cheap and simple beehive called the Honey Cow. The Honey Cow is designed to mimic nature. DIY Growing potato tower with turning bins Nowadays a lot of people lives in the city and they have most of the time a small gardening place. With this growing potato tower made of bins, we offer a DIY solution wich is very easy to heighten your potatoes just by turning the inside bin! You can make this product on different proportions with other size of bins. It depends on how much money you want to spend and how many potatoes you want to get. Another interesting thing about this "potato tower" is that you can use it for several years and once you made this product you don' t have to put a lot of effort in it to heighten your potatoes. We are students industrial design from the University of Ghent and we invented this product in two weeks.

Easy no mess mason jar beehive Sorry for the safety info, it just too important so you can enjoy your beekeeping. Woodworking can be a safe and enjoyable hobby or vocation, IF you follow some very basic woodworking safety rules. All of the rules are common-sense ideas, but failure to follow these rules will greatly increase the chance of injury when working with your tools. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Source : about.com/woodworkingsafety by chris baylor

Backyard bees in the 'burbs Why keep honeybees?My reasons for beekeeping are varied.. 1. I LOVE honey!2. Pollination for my fruit trees and other plants3. Environment - help improve the honeybee population4. Other things to keep in mind1. Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions <img class="full-width" style="" typeof="foaf:Image" width="1000" height="1420" alt="" data-smsrc="<a pearltreesdevid="PTD840" rel="nofollow" href=" class="vglnk">http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci. At first glance, the bright red shipping container that sits by the side of the road in a slum outside Johannesburg doesn’t look like something that could transform hundreds of lives. Enlarge Dean Kamen At A Glance

Big Steps In Building: Change Our Wiring to 12 Volt DC Edison was right; direct current is better than alternating current. Tesla and Westinghouse won the current wars, because it was easy to transform into different voltages without electronics, and they needed high voltages, which travel longer distances in smaller wires than low voltage. Our current system is based on big, central power plants like Niagara Falls shown above, that pump out high voltage (as much as 400,000 volts), step it down to 22 thousand volts for distribution at street level, then down to 110/220 for distribution to our houses. At every step, there are transmission losses; as much as 10% of the electricity transmitted by the power plant is lost on the way. The losses are higher in AC than in DC because it grounds so easily; according to the Economist, DC distribution is far more efficient. And then we get to our homes and offices.... The Google boys, Sergei and Larry, think this is dumb too. 1) Develop a universal standard around 12 volt dc for all electronics.

The Art and Science of Muskrat Cooking Do you have what it takes to win a rodent cooking competition? One man's journey into a most unusual culinary challenge. By Troy Andrews on March 26, 2014 I live in Washington, D.C. We all live in some kind of a bubble. From my gentrified perch in a renovated Columbia Heights row house, I recently stumbled upon an episode of “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern that profiled the Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay region. More to the point, what is a muskrat? While I had traveled across the Bay Bridge to Maryland’s Eastern Shore before, never had I been that far south. Not being one to shy away from a good challenge, my journey into muskrat cuisine — and the National Outdoor Show, the beating heart of muskrat culture — began. My dad is from Hong Kong. But the notion of “food” is perhaps just as fluid, if not more so, than the confusing identity baggage I drag to each meal I consume. But something else caught my attention. This isn’t like bringing home meat from the grocery store.

Wood Gas Camp Stove Nearly half the world’s population cooks and heats using solid fuel, much of it burning up in pits that have seen no improvement since Homo erectus first tamed fire. This is not a small problem: inefficient cooking fires waste fuel, impoverishing both the planet and the person burning it; they inject startling quantities of soot, carbon dioxide, and worse greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; and they injure and kill the families who use them to cook and stay warm. You can build a simple example of an appropriate technology that addresses all these problems: a biomass gasifier camp stove. It sounds more complicated than it is. There are many designs for efficient camp stoves, and gasification is only one way to boost the efficiency of a cooking fire. How It Works This TLUD camp stove works in batches: fill it up with twigs and woody bits, and light it from the top. This charring layer slowly descends, releasing flammable gases as it goes — a process called pyrolysis.

The Perfect Crime: What's Killing All the Bees? Honey bee colonies have experienced widespread die-offs in a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. Many beekeepers believe a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids are weakening their bees. Mega-corporations are making a killing off their pesticides—but are they also getting away with murder? (22 photos) 1 In 2005, commercial beekeepers around the country started making an alarming discovery upon opening their bee boxes. A few males and a weakened queen bee were crawling around the comb, but the worker bees—the ones that forage in the flowers and supply the nectar that is the lifeblood to the colony—were gone. While bee disappearances have occurred throughout the history of beekeeping, the mid-2000s events represented astounding losses, with researchers estimating that nearly one-third of all honey bees in America vanished. 3 Neonicotinoids have largely replaced more toxic, but less systemic pesticides known as organophosphates.

Which Pig: Find Your Next Pig Thing By 2015, the worldwide swine population will reach 1 billion. That’s a lot of pigs. But the reasons to raise your own pig are twofold: First, with millions of pigs currently kept in inhumanely small gestational crates, you can feel better about eating bacon from a pig who had the best possible life and death, and second, lovingly farmed pigs provide some of the sweetest companionship in the world. It’s important to know what you’re getting into, though. With a lifespan of at least 10 years, a pet pig is a big commitment. Regardless of breed, feed your pigs specialized feed and supplement their diet with vegetarian kitchen scraps or produce from your yard. Pets Vietnamese Potbellied Pig Hobby hog farmers will attest to the friendliness of pigs of all stripes (and spots), but Vietnamese potbellied pigs make the best indoor pets. Food Tamworth and Large Black Pigs raised for bacon are usually slaughtered at around 6 months old, if you can bear it. Behind the Scenes of Pork Photography

Raising Backyard Chickens for Dummies After several years of pestering my wife to get backyard chickens, she finally relented this past fall. I made all the traditional arguments: the kids will love them, we'll have fresh eggs every day, I promise to clean the yard and the coop, no it won't smell, trust me — and on and on. I would overtly send her photos of cool chicken coops hoping that one day she'd like one and magically say 'yes' to my request. Alas, this went on for about five years and the arguments were always the same. We have no room in the yard. But I was unwilling to lose this war of attrition. So, we brought three home with all the required accoutrements and set up shop in the basement. About three weeks later, I convinced everyone that we should get a couple more — so we did. From our partners at Content Not Available in Your Region Get Plans for a Coop and Build It — Or Just Buy One I should have known better than to attempt to build a chicken coop without a plan. Lesson learned. I did my research on this.

How to Find and Cook a Heritage Chicken Everything old is new again, with farmers and eaters rediscovering heritage breeds of chickens. But finding and cooking one isn't as easy as heading to the local grocery store and buying a pack of chicken breast filets. Here's how to cook a chicken that actually tastes like chicken. Heritage-breed chickens are defined by The Livestock Conservancy as breeds with four characteristics: they were recognized as an American Poultry Association Standard Breed prior to the mid-20th century, they are naturally mating, they can live a long and productive life outdoors and they have a slow growth rate — meaning they reach market weight in no less than 16 weeks. They’ll also likely cost quite a bit more than your normal bird – expect to pay anywhere from $5.50 to $10.50 per pound for your heritage chicken – but many cooks and eaters swear by their flavor. Heritage chickens aren’t typically sold in a grocery store, so you might have to do some research to find them in your area. In The Kitchen 1. 2.

Rocket Stove I guess you could make a rocket stove out of anything, but these 20 litre oil cans are perfect and very common in the UK, very easy to find in the street. Again, you could make the burn chamber and stack out of anything, and in fact a 90° corner to the burn chamber is better... But this 4" flexible flue is easy to work with and I had some lying around, so that's what I used. The pot for the rocket stove needs to fit pretty snug, a 1cm gap around the edge is best. I used sawdust as the insulator, you could use anything that's a good insulator that's fire proof.