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Pigeon poo is free.

I’m always on the lookout for free stuff. My search for fertilizer lead me to a local bridge that was home to hundreds of pigeons. I thought ‘where there’s pigeons there must be pigeon poo’ and there was. Tons of it, all nice and dry, ready for the taking. I dug up about 10 kilos…

Somebodys got the right idea.

This wind turbine in a rural community is doing more to mitigate climate change than our current government has since they have been in office.

Quick and nasty solar oven.

Today I needed to defrost 250g of mincemeat. Rather than use the convection oven, I decided to make up a quick solar cooker to do the job. Looking around, I found a couple of aluminium trays and an oven bag. To assemble this project, I positioned the foil trays so one was flat and one…

2 months in the straw.

My straw bale garden. It’s 2 months old today and rocking along. in it are 2 kinds of Chinese cabbage, silver beet, kale and a sweet potato for luck. Growth is OK and pests are minimal. The white plastic bag on a stick moves with the wind, creating movement and noise. It has successfully frightened…

Water kefir

Water kefir happily growing and multiplying. 3 tablespoons of grains have multiplied to 8 and a bit in about 2 weeks! I think I commented before that the milk kefir grains were doing better, but they have only bred up 3 tablespoons of grains from the original 2. All I’m doing is changing the water…