Latest Stories in Lawn & Garden - Page 16
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A Dumpster Diving, Bike Riding Garden Company (Video)
With some dumpster divers getting arrested for their efforts, it gets easier to understand why some dumpster divers like The Secret Freegan choose to keep it on the down low. Others, however, are more than happy to
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Why a Truly Green World Must Be Beautiful Too (Photos)
From an awesome tour of a permaculture allotment to these great design tips for planting perennial polycultures, permaculture gardening and farming is often held up as a great model for productive, sustainable food
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Awesome Video Explores Urban Beekeeping in London (Video)
Urban beekeeping is increasingly popular around the world, with many cities lifting bans on inner-city beehives. London, in particular, has made a name for itself as a haven for urban beekeeping—even if some
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Can You Compost Dirty Diapers?
Disposable diapers are one of those things that most greenies love to hate. But they're still a common element in many people's household waste—even many reusable diaper
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Composting Toilets Can Be "Plush and Fragrant"
From the high-tech Bio-lux composting toilet, to the more rudimentary but effective Loveable Loo humanure system, going "off pipe"—or actually treating and using your own human waste—has a
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Police Swoop on 4 and 6 Year Old for Picking Daffodils
Some time back we were surprised when a California man was arrested for stealing waste grease from a dumpster. More recently we've seen a woman handcuffed for taking food from
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How One Farm Plans to Survive Peak Oil
When film maker Rebecca Hosking and her partner Tim Green explored the implications of peak oil for her family farm, the resulting documentary called A Farm for the Future became a surprise hit on the BBC. Now they are following up with regular blog
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Heating Your Shower With Compost (Video)
I've written before about how to make a hot compost heap, and I've been known to explore navy showers as a way to lessen your environmental impact too. But what if you could combine the two? Specifically, what if you could heat your water using the
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The Safest Organic Pest Repellent Ever?
Organic gardeners and farmers like to talk about balance in nature and working with natural systems, not against them. To that end, the idea of eradicating pests becomes a self-defeating goal as it throws nature off balance and
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Organic Fertilizer and How to Make It
Permaculture Magazine has been stepping up its game when it comes to online content of late. Last week a lot of people got worked up about their post of The Moneyless Man's take on
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Beekeepers at River Cottage Show How to Split a Hive (Video)
Last week's post on beekeeping alternatives and top-bar hives drew a lot of attention, as did this video introduction to beekeeping. So I am guessing the fact that celebrity eco-chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is
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A Mini Worm Composter Kit from Outer Space (Video)
By now it is pretty common knowledge that I am obsessed with compost. Whether reflecting on compost as animal husbandry or learning how worm compost suppresses plant diseases, composting is a window in a miraculous and poorly
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Beekeeping Alternatives: Top-bar Hives, Warré Hives and Natural Approaches to Honey Bees
Whether it's my post on learning top-bar hive beekeeping online, the efforts of the Barefoot Beekeeper, or the Bee Whisperer's experiments in alternative beekeeping, there seems to be an appetite out there for information on
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A Must See Introduction to Beekeeping and Honey Bees (Video)
I may be licking my wounds as a failed beekeeper, but with Colony Collapse Disorder continuing to decimate the global bee population, none of us can afford to ignore the plight of the honey bees. Whether you have plans to keep bees
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Coolest Seed Bank Ever? Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (Video)
From Seedy Sunday's massive seed swap to the celebration of potato day, now is definitely the time of year we turn our thoughts to biodiversity in the garden. And while we continue to get excited about seed libraries as works of
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Orchids Get Seeds Saved To Prevent Their Extinction
It's not quite the Doomsday Seed Vault in the far north of Norway, but its still really pretty cool: In the new to TreeHugger category, the Orchid Seed Stores for Sustainable Use project intends to store miniscule orchid seeds,
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How to Compost Indoors (Video)
From NatureMill's high-tech indoor composter, to building your own worm bin, there are plenty of options for the would-be composter who doesn't have a yard, or who would just like to keep composting through the winter. The video
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Learn Natural Top-Bar Hive Beekeeping Online
Whether we are talking about Colony Collapse Disorder, keeping native bees, solar-powered bee hives or Barack Obama as beekeeper, there are plenty of folks interested in beekeeping out
