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Worm Tragedy: Three reasons our vermiculture system failed

We had our first permaculture heart break. Our vermiculture system, which seemed to be doing so well, suffered a total collapse. The failure occurred when…

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Mending as Mindfulness – One Way to Limit Doomscrolling

With all the terrible things going on in the world I’ve been trying to make an effort to do less doom-scrolling. I’ve been reading more…

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Indoor 3 Bucket Vermiculture in 10 steps (Video)

When we moved in to our new apartment we were pretty bummed out to realize we no longer had the option of using a green…

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Learning Garaetteok, or The Joy of Our Own Labour

This morning I caught up on some of my YouTube subscriptions from the past few weeks, including this video from Fairyland Cottage which is a…

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Reducing Waste in a High Rise

We are currently living in a small unit in a high rise building. We are very fortunate that both our municipality and building provide recycling…

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Kombucha! (Growing SCOBY and First Ferment)

So we finally did it, we finally went full crunchy and started making kombucha. There were several failed attempts at ginger beer and we’ll probably…

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Growing Wheatgrass

Our first attempt at growing food in the apartment was wheatgrass, which we started on New Years Day. Wheatgrass was our first choice because: We…

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