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Linden Tree Bast Fibers
A month or two ago I found some pruned linden tree branches on the street and brought them over for extracting the fibers from their inner bark (bast). After peeling the outer…
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Making a Garden Bed Border with Recycled Bottles
If you have a lot of glass bottles at home, you can easily make a garden bed border with them. First of all gather your bottles and place them in a tub full…
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Zucchini with Lemon
If you grow zucchini, sometimes you’ll see baby ones that stop growing. When I was living on the Aegean Coast, I learned a very easy and tasty way to make use of them! …
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Making a Lemon Peel Cleanser without Vinegar!
Here is an easy way to make an all-purpose cleanser with only leftover lemon peels and water! You can use it to clean everything (except marble): kitchen counter, greasy kitchen tub, bathrooms, floors…
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Polyculture Gardening // Part III
This is a spontaneous bed that we created over lawn. Some of the plants are perennials, some of them are annuals. Having perennials in a bed is both challenging and fun to play…
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Polyculture Gardening Part II
Here’s the Part II of our polyculture garden tour. Kale On the outer edge of the bed I planted kale as a living fence. It grows quite high and defines the borders…
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Polyculture Gardening-Part I
https://youtu.be/xH4gXYNKm24 I’ve been researching and experimenting on polyculture gardening for a couple of seasons and I can see that it works very well! There are more pollinators and beneficial insects as well as…
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How to Bind Loose Pages Together
Things you need: A sewing machine A nail A hammer Cardboard and some kind of board Waxed thread Thick sewing needle First of all divide your book to 8-10 page bunches and sew…
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Dividing Sunchokes (Helianthus tuberosus)
Last year I planted half a kilo of sunchokes on the edges of my vegetable garden. They grew abundantly, we made pickles with them and left some on the ground for the next…
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Dandelion Coffee
For a long time I had in mind to make dandelion coffee. It grows abundantly in the garden, has many health benefits and it’s much more sustainable than regular coffee because YOU can…
