Geoff answers questions that have been structured around specific themes, starting with two common concerns about permaculture design: dealing with mosquitoes and reading the landscape. How do we deal with mosquitoes with so much standing water? Mosquitoes do breed in water, but the larvae have to wriggle up and down to get air at the…
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Emptying and Replacing the Waste Reservoirs in the Composting Toilet in the Tiny Houseboat
You can watch this video to learn how to empty out your liquid and solid waste reservoirs in the C-Head composting toilet. This is the toilet that we use in our tiny houseboat, TinySol, or Wake with the Sun. Watch this video to see how the toilet works from “under the hood.” Also, you can…
Small-scale sustainable home and garden design | Garden Design and Inspiration | Gardening Australia
Costa visits a sustainable house and garden, designed to make efficient use of every space. Subscribe http://ab.co/GA-subscribe Mike and his partner bought an unrenovated house on a leafy Mt Colah street 10 years ago. Their garden starts on the verge with edibles, and the front yard is a thriving ‘no dig’ food forest. There’s another…
Some Long Islanders Going Native, Replacing Lawns With Plants In Effort To Attract Wildlife And Cut
The suburban landscape is looking a little different in parts of Long Island. CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reports. Source
HOW TO GROW GIANT CROPS | Don’t Starve Together Guide
Welcome to another Don’t Starve Together guide! Today I’m showing you how to grow giant crops in the new farm plots of Don’t Starve Together. The new system is definitely more complex than the farming system we had prior, but even with a basic understanding you can farm with an accelerated production and a much…
Bokashi Composting from Start to Finish (DIY Bokashi Bucket)
My favorite bokashi bran: https://growepic.co/3Rn5umb Bokashi composting is one of my favorite ways to make extra use of an abundance of food scraps. By building a simple bokashi bin or bokashi bucket, and using inoculated bran as a fermentation agent, you can ‘pre-digest’ food scraps before you put them into your soil. It’s an absolutely…
How to Grow and Care For Perennial Plants : How to Grow Coreopsis
Learn how to plant and care for coreopsis in this series of greenthumb gardening videos from our year-around garden expert. Expert: Martha Cycz Bio: Martha Cycz has been a perennial backyard gardener for more than 20 years. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso Source
The Ancient Irrigation Systems of Oman; Birkat Al Mouz
After touring the first ancient irrigation system, Misfat Al Abriyeen, Geoff explored Birkat Al Mouz, where the water system is channeled over a wall to maintain a high water level for as long as possible before it is distributed to gardens. At Birkat Al Mouz, we can see the result of a water system managed…
STUNG by The World’s Deadliest Plant!
Brave Crew – an important note about this episode. The plant we feature, known as the Gympie Gympie, is nicknamed ‘The Suicide Plant’ due to the horrific pain it can cause to those unlucky enough to touch it. The trichomes of the Gympie Gympie inject venom straight into the skin, which can leave a person…
How to build a worm composter | Natural History Museum
A worm composter, or wormery, can turn your kitchen food scraps into fantastic fertilizer for your house plants and garden. Read our step-by-step instructions and extra tips for success: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-to-make-a-worm-composter.html —————- The Natural History Museum in London is home to over 80 million specimens, including meteorites, dinosaur bones and a giant squid. Our channel brings…