This is a video channel from an organic gardener in the United States, who shows you a propagation method, by using potatoes. - a nasty bag of potato - a barrel / container - add organic fertelizer - a slip … Read more
Watering Watering your organic garden
This is a video from an organic gardener who shows you how you could water your plants in differents ways, with few tips. … Read more
Cleaning your rain water with a fish Cleaning your rain water
However you collect your rain water, once you store it in a barrel or a container, aquatic plants and insects including mosquitos grow. You can easily get rid of that introducing a fish in your container. The fish will clean the water naturally and transform those plants and insects in excrements that will enrich your garden while watering it. You just have to insure there's no substances that could harm the fish on your roof and find the right type for your weather. In France mine is a common … Read more
Solar energy Electrifying isolated communities
Many remote communities around the world are lacking basic services of clean water, shelter, health and access to electricity. Rural communities depend on old roman cisterns to get their water and are using minimal technology in their livelihoods. Bedouin communities are also residing in remote areas that lack the proper infrastructure. Today, these communities are living without any safe and reliable electricity source. They depend basically on expensive and polluting electricity generators … Read more
Pedal Power Cinema Activate your audience - spinning is out, screening is in
This is how we do it: We dismantle the back wheels, the outer tyres as well as the inner tubes and set up a v-belt instead. This v-belt drives a generator and the generator delivers electricity. This electricity is then forwarded to an inverter which converts the continuous current to an alternating current. And with this alternating current we can screen the movie. On a speedometer you can read the output power, meaning the voltage and electricity which is generated, so that you have a … Read more
Permaculture example in Wisconsin Great example of Oak Savanna biome permaculture
Just wanted to make people aware of this local resource in the form of Mark Shepard's New Forest Farm, 106 acres in Viola, WI. It's an 18-year-old permaculture designed property which involves numerous species of plants (including chestnuts, hazelnuts, grapes, annuals, and mushrooms) as well as animals grazed in a rotating, managed paddock system (including steer, pigs, and poultry). Tours are offered and he has a book called 'Restoration Agriculture' which is very informative. I want to … Read more
El suelo vivo Datos y métodos sobre el trabajo agrícola
En este vídeo se habla de la importancia del suelo en agricultura desde distintas perspectivas, en 30 minutos. … Read more
Ceramic Pot Water Filter With Silver Nanoparticles
The Ceramic Pot Water Filter is a simple, bucket-shaped (11” wide by 10” deep) clay vessel that is made from a mix of local terra-cotta clay and sawdust or other combustibles, such as rice husks. The filters are formed by using a press. The simplest press utilizes a hand-operated hydraulic truck jack and two-piece aluminum mold. Filters are fired to about 860 deg. C. and the milled, screened combustible material burns out, leaving porous clay walls. The filters are tested to make sure they meet … Read more
Wind Turbine How to build a wind turbine
This instruction describes the process of building your own wind turbine without having to spend a lot of money. The wind turbine would then allow you to produce your own energy. … Read more
Solar Oven Build your own cardboard solar oven
This is a very easy and cheap to make solar oven made out of cardboard and duct tape which only requires sun to be present and then small meals can be cooked inside of it. (or bigger meals depending on how big the cardboard box and reflectors are) … Read more
