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Unique Wall Painting Techniques for the DIY Homeowner

How beautiful is this wall. Can you believe that they painted it with veggies from the fridge. Mother earth news has all the instructions for painting a wall like this. I love it. Unique Wall Painting...

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Hugelkultur: Composting Whole Trees With Ease ( one of the neatest gardening...

Composting logs buried in a trench then layered above. The logs as they decompose provides heat to the roots of plants providing a much longer growing season. The beds can be buried completely under...

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No Dig Potatoes

This is such a cool and easy way to grow potatoes. Stephen Harlow shows how to grow them under straw with absolutly no digging except  when harvesting. I love the way he didn’t even dig up the ground...

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Propagation of Fruit Bearing Trees by Air-Layering

Awesome how to on cloning your tree, fruit and other trees can be cloned this way rather than growing from seed. Antoni Raj over on Instructables walks you through the process as he clones his sweet...

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Oil Cleansing Method (OCM) and 6 Other Uses for Castor Oil

Hilda Blue gives us a few ways of using castor oil. Some of these I had never heard of . While I have heard of using castor oil to remove warts I hadn’t heard of using it for skin care but they give a...

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Borax Method for Tanning Hides

If you hunt and would like to know how to tan small hides like rabbit Martin Malcolm on Ehow shares how to do it.  I never knew you could use Borax to tan hides. Not that I ever tan hides, just...

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DEEP LITTER METHOD – Clean the Roost Once A Year

This looks like an easy way to get out of cleaning the chicken roost for a year and creating compost at the same time. Carolina Coops has the video to show and explain how it works.

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The Ruth Stout Garden Method, Easiest Method Ever

Love this video of Ruth Stout showing her no work gardening method. How much time do we spend tilling, weeding, watering and composting to grow our gardens. Ruth Stout just sort of throws seeds in dirt...

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Easy Mason Jar Marinade Method and Recipe

Easy Mason Jar Marinade Method and Recipe This amazing marinading method has changed the whole way my family marinates chicken, beef or pork to infuse flavor. A glass mason jar is the perfect easy to...

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How To Start A Straw Bale Garden

If you have bad soil or would just like to garden the easy way, check out these tips for starting a straw bale garden. I really like this method of gardening because there is no digging or weeding....

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Archimedes Screw Water Irrigation Method

Homesteaders may be interested in learning about Archimedes Screw water irrigation method as a way of delivering water up from a natural running water source up into their irrigation ditches to water...

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Psychedelic Easter Eggs Dyeing Method

This step by step tutorial of a psychedelic Easter eggs dyeing method is simple, inexpensive and really fun to do for children and adults alike. It seems that half the fun of the holiday is spreading a...

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Save Your Hats With This Washing Method

              If you wear a lot of hats or hubby does then you know how dirty they can get. My hub works in construction and grandson works in a kitchen so their caps are always gross. Super grimy and...

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Dry Your Herbs In The Oven

          If you grow a lot of herbs you might want to dry them and save them instead of buying dried herbs at the store. You can even dry store-bought herbs if you have some left over. I buy basil...

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The Easy Way To Sight In Your Bow

          Here is an easier method of sighting in your bow. Instead of making groupings of shots and loads of adjustments to try for that perfect shot Archery Report walks you through adjusting...

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How To Start A Straw Bale Garden

If you have bad soil or would just like to garden the easy way, check out these tips for starting a straw bale garden. I really like this method of gardening because there is no digging or weeding....

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Archimedes Screw Water Irrigation Method

Homesteaders may be interested in learning about Archimedes Screw water irrigation method as a way of delivering water up from a natural running water source up into their irrigation ditches to water...

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Ice Cubes Fabric Tie Dye Method

Ice Cubes Fabric Tie Dye method Okay, so you forgot someone’s birthday again. Or you forgot a gift. Either way, you need something, and it can’t be too hard. Something that’s fun and easy to do is ice...

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Make Caramelized Onions In The Crock Pot

If you love caramelized oinions check out this method of making them in the crock pot. You can make up a huge batch and then freeze them so when you need or want some caramelized onions you only have...

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Double Ring Method To Grow Loads Of Tomatoes On Only 5 Plants

This is the neatest way of growing tomatoes that I have seen. I am so definitely going to grow mine this way next year. I will do the set up right in the raised garden beds I already have. This is...

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