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They can be ballasted for additional traction or left as is for decreased soil compaction. Duals can be added if more traction without more soil compaction is desired. You don't want an ATV if you need a front-end loader, and you don't want an entry-level...

Attract pollinators, pest predators and beautiful butterflies by including plenty of flowers in your permaculture design. Under and amongst those, shorter fruit brambles, herbs, flowers and fungi thrive.

It seems that 12-volt pumps have a tendency to burn out if heavily used. The problem with a labor saver is when they don't work, you hate to go back to doing without. It wouldn't be the first time he saved me money.

At present, it is the last remaining farm and greenhouse operation in Milwaukee. , an architect firm based in Cedarburg, Wis., known for its beautiful and sustainable green designs, describes the building as a “highly sustainable, urban, five-story...

If you produce more than you're using, the electricity will feed back into the grid, spinning your meter backward (called net metering). Turn a handle: Water flows from a faucet. Crank up the thermostat.

Now we've applied that mindset to energy management, and it creates a win-win for us and the community in the long term,” Estes said. The third floor of the Center will be almost entirely powered by the solar modules.

“This effort combines the benefits of increasing employment opportunities with all the advantages to Milwaukee residents of locally grown good food. “We can find this money,” he says.

If you are planting a new tree in an area beneath power lines, it is suggested that you select a tree or shrub that does not grow taller than 25 feet.Most city plots also have 3-4 feet wide utility easements on one or more sides of the plot line.

Full limbs develop on one side of the trunk, while the opposite 180 degrees of trunk only grow stunted stumps. A planting near Chicago, Illinois shows promise.Some may decry the unnatural appearance of the plants, but these are healthy plants that never...

(You can, of course, always ask someone else to put it together for you.) According to the instructions , two people are required to put the Bicitractor together and it'll take 6.5 days.

In my garage, I have a set of small drawers holding all sorts of random nuts, bolts, hinges, screws, nails, hardware—you name it—sorted by general type and size so that I can quickly put my hands on what I need.

Enter the broadfork (pictured above). Yet at the same time, gardening in hard, compact soil yields poor results. It consists of a curved blade attached to a long pole with two short handles.

I followed the strand of wire demarcating the animals' boundary to its source, then pulled out my phone and began snapping pictures of the setup. I purchased most of the supplies (minus the marine battery, which I picked up on sale at a big-box store)...

Take Another Look Dioscorides' advice to really understand plants by observing them in all seasons is especially important for a plant like Dioscorea bulbifera. The leaf is more pointed than a typical heart shape, and the vine twines to the right.

“It can actually be a part of the community or society as opposed to any other alternative energy form. “This isn't your typical propel blade spinning in the wind,” Taylor says.

Modern agriculture progressed in leaps and bounds as fire found its way off the landscape. However, Sunburst's push cart and wagon designs use a patented water-mist technology that maximize heat delivery to the plant surface while minimizing risk of unwanted...

Originally, I used large table that resembled a kitchen island, and then it morphed with the purchase of my first front-load washer and dryer set into the lovely countertop covered machines splashed across magazine pages today.

Need to use power tools while building a new shed? Also, portable generators usually don't supply as many watts of power as standby generators, which means that you won't be able to power as many appliances and circuits.

OK, there was a little more to it than that, but go ahead and read the latest on SMH small business news. If the entire cow can't be sold, you don't receive your meat—but you get your money back.

They are dependable and easily moved. Solar pumps exist or can be built, and pumps can run off the sun, but they are fairly large energy draws so they might require a larger solar system.

While inverters can double the cost of a portable generator, they produce a higher-quality power, run quieter, and throttle up and down as needed, saving fuel. Extended power outages are even more painful if your income stream depends on a home office,...

How did Farmgirl Flowers get its start? The great thing about using seasonal flowers, though, is that you get to enjoy the flowers when they're at their best. When I would send flowers to my mom in Indiana, I had to use one of the traditional eComm flower...

“We want children to be able to see their school logo on turbines and get interested in alternative energy and create a positive impact.” Taylor said the customized option has been popular with customers.

A second layer of plastic with an air gap can raise the soil temperature an additional 35 to 50 degrees F. Although a solar alternative to using dangerous chemical fumigants has been documented as being used in ancient times by farmers on the Indian subcontinent,...

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It likes full sun, but can tolerate some shade. They drank a bit too much of their lobelia tea with predictable results: They vomited. It's very easy to pigeonhole healing plants to one or two uses, forgetting to look at them for any additional benefit...

Before this legislation, the FDA could only suggest recalls once a food has been found tainted. After a political roller-coaster ride, the Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law by President Obama on Jan.