Category: DIY
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 5: Fermented Plant Juice
Make your own garden superfood with Fermented Plant Juice. DIY, low/no cost, powerful growth boosters for your home garden.
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 4: Thermophilic Composting
Simple DIY thermophilic composting instructions for homestead scale composters. 18 Day Berklee Hot Compost method for quick compost.
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 3: Compost Tea
Welcome to Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads! This post series covers the many ways you can build fertility, create soil, cycle nutrients and take responsibility for “waste” streams on your property. These systems all integrate with one another to increase resilience, improve nutrition (for soil and humans) and save dollars. The posts are written from our…
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 2: Bokashi Compost Systems
Welcome to Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads! This post series covers the many ways you can build fertility, create soil, cycle nutrients and take responsibility for “waste” streams on your property. These systems all integrate with one another to increase resilience, improve nutrition (for soil and humans) and save dollars. The posts are written from our…
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 1: Vermicompost
Vermicomposting methods for the homestead and farm. Build soil fertility, process waste streams on site, and create a resilient ecosystem at home!
The 4 Freedoms: Principles For Regenerative Lifestyle Design
The 4 Freedoms – Principle For Regenerative Lifestyle Design – Freedom in Time, Health, Wealth And Spirit.
DIY Air Prune Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Healthy-Rooted Trees In A Tiny Footprint
DIY Air Pruning Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Trees With Well-Formed Root Structures In A Tiny Footprint What Is Air Pruning? Air pruning is a technique for developing healthy, fibrous, non-circling and non-girdling root structures in trees and and plants raised in a nursery setting that uses air to prune and shape root systems. Trees…
DIY Automated Solar-Powered Off-Grid Irrigation System
This Eco-System is a downloadable PDF step-by-step illustrated guide that walks you through the process of building your own Off Grid Solar Powered Automated Irrigation System for less than $600. For those of us that don’t own land or have unknown land tenure we are all familiar with the tug-of-war between putting in energy/investment/capital…
Automated Microgreen Bottom Watering System – DIY
We finally made the investment in automating our microgreen growing set up and it has demonstrated immediate time savings of several hours a week (and we’re a small scale grower). Prior to building this system we had all of our germinated 1020 shallow trays with their own white, leak-proof bottom watering tray. This, not surprisingly,…
Pallet Framed Slip Straw Bathhouse – Part 1
Got started a bit late with documenting the build, but these shots will give the basic idea. Pictured below is the stone and stacked urbanite foundation with underlayment of old pieces of stone countertop from a nearby dump site. Several sections of the pallet wall have already been measured and attached in between 4×4″ posts. The…
Creating Places: Four Corner Tree Hammock
When I was a kid summer was all about building forts. Tree forts, earth forts, pillow forts, bark houses – you name it, I built it. I’ve always loved creating spaces that I loved to be in, and interestingly enough, other people loved those spaces too. Much like the forts of childhood, these spaces are…
DIY: Build Your Own Automated Misting Bed
So you’ve finally gotten that piece of land to start your homestead, you’ve done your site plan and installed your mainframe earthworks. Now its time to plant! But wait, all of those plants cost money! And not just pocket change, but some serious dough! If each fruit tree you plant also needs a comfrey, two…
