Fly Goo In a spray bottle with an adjustable sprayer, mix 2 ½ teaspoons liquid soap** per quart water, to make a 1% soap solution. Now, you’re cleaning while you kill flies. Add some Lavender essential oil to add aromatherapy to your Fly Goo brew! Stops flies in their tracks. Long distance shots work best [...]
Tag Archives: green
The Advantages of Raised-Bed Gardens
05.07.2009 – 20:25
The following is an excerpt from Mortgage Free! Innovative Strategies for Debt-free Home Ownership, Second Edition by Rob Roy. It has been adapted for the Web.
French intensive or “biodynamic” gardening involves the use of several “raised beds” of about four feet in width—the maximum width allowing the gardener to reach the center from either side—and [...]
Natural Polycultures: Mimicking Nature in Your Veggie Garden
05.07.2009 – 14:21
The following is an excerpt from Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Second Edition by Toby Hemenway. It has been adapted for the Web.
Nature binds plants into interdependent communities and associations. Indigenous people, too, have crafted plant combinations that weave synergies among species. In the past two decades, ecological designers also have blended plants [...]
Microhydro Power in Your Backyard? How to Assess Your Site
05.06.2009 – 20:19
One of my coworkers dreams of owning a home with a little stream running through the yard helping to power his hybrid microhydro/photovoltaic and carbon-free home.
If you’re lucky enough to have access to your own stream, complete with a small waterfall, just think: you could be harnessing that energy for your own renewable electric system—via [...]
My New Rechargeable Lawn Mower
06.16.2008 – 10:35
Hi everyone – I really wanted to get this week off to a good start on the blog. I have so much to write about (as mentioned in my last post), but unfortunately not enough time to write about it.
I figured I could start off with a nice easy post about my new lawn mower, [...]
