Wicked beds!

Now that I have your attention: The best method of garden irrigation is... drum roll please...

Wicking beds... It would work great with an aquaponics system...

This is a tutorial

Farm Legal stuff

There are always new farm bills and ways that the feds (and states) are trying to regulate and control farming... One good source of news on this front is the  Farm and Ranch Freedom alliance.

check it out.


http://farmandranchfreedom.org/

How to build a warre bee hive

According to brrthinking.com, the warre hive is the best of the best in natural bee hives...
And what is a warre hive?
How do you build one?
Here you go...

http://thebeespace.net/2008/07/30/introduction-warre-beehive-construction-guide/

Crawler in a kit? Oh yeah!

http://www.struckcorp.com/index.html

An Open Source Civilization Kit

Need to build a tractor? Need to build a backhoe? Cement Mixer?



http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_Page

When is low tech high tech?

We often wonder how the world survived at all before electricity and before  all the high tech gadgets we have now.

But then, when I look at so many of the low tech solutions, I am amazed at how high tech they are. And how simple...

This is an organization in Bolivia that does really cool things in a high tech/low tech sort of way. I am impressed.

http://vimeo.com/channels/emas#8454559

PV and electric tractors sources and supplies...

When I get to needing an electric vehicle or a PV system, I should call Steve here and http://www.renewables.com