Saturday, December 7, 2013

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Zen forest house: 11K, handcrafted, small home in Oregon

Thursday, November 7, 2013

saving flower seeds

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Living Off Grid Self Sustainable Living

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The beginning of my adventure to living off grid and becoming self sustainable.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

pumpkins

Friday, October 11, 2013

Preserving Squash and Zuchinni (+playlist)

This site was shared with me so share on.
Little House Living blog
http://www.littlehouseliving.com

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Brazil Iguazu Fall's what a sight

I know this is not sustainable living or organic gardening but it is beautiful.
In South America, Brazil you can find this amazing waterfall. You can wikipedia it to learn more about the falls.

Iguazu Falls

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friday, October 4, 2013

Bloom Fuel Cells new eBay Data Center

New eBay Data Center Runs Almost Entirely On Bloom Fuel Cells

http://www.forbes.com/sites/heat...

The Salt Lake City installation includes 30 Bloom Energy Servers arranged in five racks. eBay is raising the bar (again) when it comes to sourcing power for massive data centers. Its massive new facility in Salt Lake City – the main hub of technology powering more than $175 billion in annual e-comme...

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Repel animals from your garden

Not much time lately to blog much, sorry about that. I took a class with Master Gardeners, last weekend took some notes I would like to share. The day started with a wonderful speaker Shayne Zurligen, from the Boggs Tract Community Farm, about the Food Forests.
So, you may say to yourself what is a food forest. It is really about the layers of trees and plants that create a sustainable living environment. Spacing the layers helps each group to thrive and provide for the others.

Tall Tree
Low Tree
Shrubs
Herbal
Ground
Vine
Root

Each providing for protection from evaporation and replacement of nutrients into the soil, such as leaves and grass into nitrogen.

Bulbs like Daffodils can help repel animals such as deer and gofers. The bulbs release a smell that keep deer away. Daffodils are not only beautiful but help sustain your garden from wild life.
Also needed in the garden plants that attract birds and insects.

queen ann's lace
cosomos
zinia
fennel
yarrow
maples
butterfly bush
rasberry
blackberry
blueberry

Important to share the harvest not only with people but the animals and insects in your garden community. When I find that the ants have taken over one of my eggplants, I leave it in the garden for them. Taking a loss on one eggplant means they have what they want and only take what they need.

Providing habitat nooks for garden creatures provides them with a place to hide while staying near the garden to create the life cycle to sustain the garden. Placing ladybug houses in the garden protects ladybugs from birds and provides them a place to come back to.

Grass and herbal ground cover provide protection from evaporation saving on water usage.

There was so much information to take in from the Master Gardeners Class, that one day was not enough time. I suggest that if you ever get an opportunity to attend a Master Gardeners, to do so.

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Master Gardeners Stockton 2013

There was so much information to obtain from this years Master Gardeners in Stockton. At a latter time I will update the information to share with every one. For now I am posting some photo's of the reuse ideas for your garden.