Our Victorian Clothes Drying Rack: Pt. 1
It is not easy to lift heavy materials. This problem can be solved with the help of a simple machine like a pulley. A pulley comprises a wheel and a fixed axle, with a...
Category: Homesteading
Linseed Straw Mulch
Linseed, the seed of common flax (Linum usitatissimum), has been part of our diet for the last twenty years or so. I grind a tablespoon of organic linseed in the coffee grinder and spread...
The Red Wheelbarrow
Cut me some slack on this one please: I can glaze it and toss in a couple of white chickens, but that orange will still destroy the image, and there goes your poem. (Sorry...
Californian Thistles
The total effect of effective pasture loss with Calis has been reported as 600kg/Ha in a low density thistle paddock! The Californian thistle is without doubt the most economically significant of New Zealand’s pasture...
Red Clover Tea
I’m gobsmacked by the untold teas displayed on supermarket shelves. I shouldn’t be -most fresh off the blocks ‘manufactured’ products not much more than a copywriter whizz kid and a computer aided design nanosecond...
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