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We power ours by hand or with a cordless drill. We don't use it for fresh peas, because it crushes some, but I have been told that it works well if you freeze the peas and then run them through the s ...

We've been using some of our own saved seeds for 30 years or so, expecially tomatoes, peppers, and a few kinds of beans and peas. Also some Chinese cabbage or bok choi. Make sure that they are actua ...

We've been canning tomatoes, making and canning/freezing pizza sauce, digging potatoes, and made a couple of batches of apple cider from a friend's red crab apples. The apple juice is dark red and ta ...

We have been accumulating books for decades--lots of reference books on any and all subjects of interest, plus fiction of many kinds, and books about things that I hope to someday have time to study. ...

Back in 1977 when we built our first house we went off grid because we found a 19355 vintage wind generator for a few hundred dollars, and got batteries, rebuilt the generator found a tower, etc. for ...

Hard to do accurate figuring not knowing where your are or what your electrical rate is, but for me, paying 10cents a kilowatt hour plus $8 meter fee plus a couple of bucks taxes etc, a $35/month bill ...

And in 20 years the PV panels still have 10 to 30 + years of life in them, and I paid for them up front, and no longer get the benefit of them. Better to buy them and install them yourself.

Whisper for the most part makes light weight machines that don't last for decades, the way machines from some other makers will last. I know quite a few people who have had serious problems with Whis ...

There are 2 web discussion forums of efficiency tips geared towards cars that I like.
http://www.gassavers.org
http://ecomodder.com
They also have areas for discussion of home and other energy conc ...

Here's the car we just built: www.sunnev.com

But it is a NEV, not a highway legal vehicle. It's fine for most daily use of many people but not a vehicle you can use without restrictions.

I have completed the first small aquaponics system for inside our home to be used year round. It uses only 102 watts per day! Small enough to run on a very small solar system.

Do you mean 102 watt- ...

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The wood that we move into the basement has usually been cut, split and stacked outside for a year or 2 or longer, so it isn't drying much more inside--I have never noticed extra moisture from ...

My experience has been that the "superinsulated" part of a passive solar house is the really important thing. Then, designing the house so that it makes maximum use of the winter sun will help heat i ...

Last night we canned peaches. We go in with some friends and get a bunch from an Amish group that hires a truck and buys a truck load from Michigan, so we get really tasty freshpicked peaches for a r ...

We keep a couple of weeks supply of firewood in our basement, but we wait until after a good frost before starting to haul in wood (we toss it into the basement through a small window) to try to avoid ...