Living Walls: Bring Your Garden Inside and Clean The Air Too
Living walls or green walls are self-sufficient vertical gardens which are connected to the outside or inside of a house or building. They are distinct from green façades (e.g. ivy walls) because the vegetation root in a structural support that is attached to the wall surface itself. The vegetation obtain water and nutrients from inside the […]
Continue readingIndoor Gardening: There’s No Reason Not To Have Fresh Food All Year
Not everyone has the luxury of planting a garden outside. In the city or apartments, you only have the option of starting indoor gardens. While the concept of indoor gardening might seem like it goes against everything you know, it’s actually is a great way to grow fresh vegetables.There are a few essentials that you’ll […]
Continue readingHydroponics System: Grow Healthy Food Year Around
What is a Hydroponic System?A hydroponics system is a group of plants that are set in a water based solution. This method does not use any dirt to secure the plants. Instead, peat moss, rockwool, perlite, or clay pellets are used. This approach allows the plants to have constant access to their nutrients and oxygen […]
Continue readingAquaponics: A Method For Food Independence Or Survival
Five Reasons to Enjoy Aquaponics GardeningAn aquaponic system is an answer to the food shortage across the world. Aquaponics is an amazing design capable of producing fish and vegetables in a very small area. It combines hydroponics, best known as a method of growing plants without soil, with the agricultural technique of aquaculture, or raising […]
Continue readingAeroponics: Small Space, Big Yields
Are you looking for big crop yields from small or limited space? Aeroponics is one answer.Aeroponics, in a nutshell is…Is a method of urban farming in which plants or crops are grown in an air or mist environment without using soil or another traditional medium. This differs from hydroponics, which uses a liquid nutrient solution as […]
Continue readingUrban or Suburban Organic Farming
What is Organic Farming? The USDA defines organic agriculture as “a production system that is managed to respond to site-specific conditions by integrating cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity.”Huh? While not everyone agrees on an accepted definition it can be roughly interpreted to mean Using nature […]
Continue readingOff Grid Energy Solutions: How To Beat The Utilities at Their Own Game
Click Video to Watch Audio Download Video Download Transcript Download Off Grid Energy-The Problem Without a doubt, the cost of energy in the coming years is going to get higher. This is simply a fact. You need to be thinking about off grid energy solutions now. If you didn’t believe it yourself, you wouldn’t be […]
Continue readingWhy Urban Homesteading Is Part Of The Urban Future + 10 Tips To Get Started
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”Chinese Proverb Urban homesteading means different things to different people. It might focus on several unique issues: services by local, state, and federal agencies in the United States which try to assist folks back into urban houses, squatting, […]
Continue readingSuburban Homesteading: 7 Steps For An Off Grid Home in the City
“The Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, and dreaming of the future.”Brian Switzer Just because you live in a suburban setting, doesn’t mean you can’t experience Suburban Homesteading. This allows you to have an off grid home, despite […]
Continue readingOff Grid Real Estate
There’s something incredibly romantic and idyllic about off grid real estate. Finding the perfect off grid homes for sale, however, is a completely different business. The decision has to be 100 percent pragmatic and based on rationality. Whether you’d like to buy land, an off grid shelter or something a bit more luxurious, you’ll need to […]
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