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I bought a box of 250 ****ake mushroom plugs from the home center for about 7$, and set up a bunch or oak logs in a shady/wet spot in the yard. Went to work with the cordless drill and also drilled out softwood stumps for experiments. While I'm not doing this for market it should be...

That's quite a difference in Kero prices, yikes. Yes, the Monitor heaters can be left on and programmed on timer, also they have seperate tanks.

We heat with wood only, and I have the same concerns that you do about not being able to be there 24/7 and worry about pipes etc. Have you looked into Monitor heaters? http://www.monitorheat.com/oil_products.html I don't know what Kerosene costs now, nor the price of the unit, but these types...

I got an electric assist bicycle from heavy trash. Took the motor off of it. It has a sprocket already attached. It's 220Watts! Hopefully will get it hooked up to my waterwheel this week, and produce some power. If you ever see a big fitness treadmill on the trash, take the motor off it and...

Wow, 50 lbs. ! Great score there. And organic to boot. All I ever get lately is Napa cabbage and giant radish, but shouldn't complain. Ever try grilled corn on the bbq, low heat, with a coupla very small pours of soy sauce? Oh I just saw Saugerties, nice. Rip Van Winkle territory, are you...

1. Get more female ducks, lost my only female to a raccoon 3 weeks ago. 2. Farm 3 or 4 seasons, last year was my first year, so summer only. 3. Buy or make a micro hydro generator and wind turbine.

That's a great idea, get the animal to compress it's own dung and or something, I bet it would work. Like you said good to know.

Yeah, I agree alot of work there. A real briquette press would be much better, I imagine lots of folks have access to sawdust, shavings, chaff etc. A machine like this would make a good side business. http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11140724/Briquette_Press.html The Indian and Chinese...

Interesting discussion, To give an idea how the National Health Service works here in Japan: My family of 5 pays about $500 per month for medical and dental. It is based on income, the wealthy pay more, the poorer, less. When it was just two of us we paid about 180$ per month. Everyone...

Sorry I'll try to remember that, This guy in Scotland it seems, shreds newspaper and soaks it in water overnight, then adds an equal amount of sawdust/wood shavings. Then puts it into a approx. 4" pvc pipe sleeve inside a steel pipe and squeezes the mixture into a puck using a hydraulic jack...

This would probably work with or without the manure http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=VY4LUC78YW4

Hi again GS, You can do it! Just find the right motor. I'm still searching for a good one, very hard to find round here. We live in a rural area with the nearest neighbor being 100 yards due south. How about you, what kind of area are you in? Do you have lots of tall trees around? We get a...

Here's some cheap hydro turbines, not the best quality, but with a little maintainance and care they're good to go http://www.windturbine.ca/sunami.html I'm thinking about the sn-200 or sn300 http://www.windturbine.ca/sunami_models.html They put out AC current, no battery bank needed, just...

Hi all, If anyone is interested in hydro or has any links they'd like to share, drop 'em here!

Hi GardenSimply, thanks for reviving this thread. Would love to hear more about your Chispito when you get going. Have you ever seen the homebrewed turbines at www.otherpower.com ? They make some serious stuff. Kits as well. Here's my "attempt" at small wind power, only 30watts. But if...

This is the scariest part. Also 3/4 of all dollars are held outside the US, they will also flow back home as is starting now All the problems are being paid for with the printing press, I hope the president elect has a blue shirt with a big red and yellow S on it, cause he's gonna need it to...

Hi enjoy the ride and all, What were you doing in Tokyo? Haven't had a tremor in a long time, knock on wood.

Here they say if there are many stinkbugs the winter will be harsh. They've been few this year due to the relatively dry summer and cool fall. Also very few caterpillars chomping on my poplars...hmmmm...we'll see

Hi FarmerChick, We only got invaded once by one. Ate some eggplants rolled around on the top of the car like a monkey would, till we scared it off. But several times per year they come out of the woods and trash a farm/garden or two in the valley. That's when Stitch comes out. They don't...

Landslides caused by earthquakes and or typhoons, flash flooding. Two weeks of food and and essentials stocked. Most people have an earthquake bug out bag of 1-3 days supplies ready to run with.