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In this episode of The Urban Homesteaders, Ben builds a compost turner using 100% salvaged materials. Sorry again for the sound... we still are without real video equipment, so we're using a macbook as our only video recorder.
Stay tuned! We're building another compost bin this week, and in the next month or so, we'll be comparing the quality of compost from both!
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Using materials and bicycle parts all found in the garbage, we have built a pedal-powered compost turner. Composting is perhaps the best way to reduce household waste. While harnessing the mechanical power of the pedals and cranks, a person is able to turn up to 500 pounds of compost with minimal effort using this pedal powered compost turner.
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How to Compost (3 min.) describes how composting in done on a community level in the Commons.
Katya Miller, a Commons community member and video artist, has produced three short videos about life in the commons which we are proud to present here in streaming quicktime format. For more information about Katya's work, visit one of her web sites at Cultural Images and Lady Freedom.
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This guy built, out of the side of an Alaska mountain, a water recycling, self-sustaining shelter. Out of some fairly simple stuff. The goal was for third world countries in desert areas to have a model to build homes by. Somewhere Kevin Kostner is kicking himself for drinking the urine straight in Waterworld...
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A silly song and animation about the joy of composting.
Photo animation by eclectech
http://eclectech. co.uk
Drawn animation by Grandma of Shoes
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Music composed and performed by DogHorse
http://www.stable sound.co.uk/
Larger higher quality Flash version at
http://eclectech. co.uk/compostbin.php
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Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, and Mark Highland, the Organic Mechanic, hang out, talk about soil and whip up a batch of compost tea.
Read Mark Highland's column, the Last word, at Urban Sustainable Living (www.urbansustainabl eliving.com. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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It's hard to believe, but the average American family produces over twelve hundred pounds of organic waste in a single year. Most of it ends up in the landfills. That's a real shame when you consider it could be going to work in your garden.
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Peak Moment 55: Karen Biondo and Joe Walling take us on a tour of their incredible backyard farm on Vashon Island, Washington. Pet the goats, see chickens dusting in divots, and crunch a carrot. See how Karen's colorful paintbrush combined with Joe's creativity with salvaged materials and hot compost are creating playful beauty and plentiful harvests.
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This is a rare educational video with Jewel Staite from her "early years". Sorry about the quality. I took this video with a digital camera at work. IMPORTANT: You must turn up your volume in order to hear. Enjoy! :)
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Check out this composting toilet system. Fairly simple to set up and run with so many benefits to be gained for your garden.
Makes you wonder why we spend millions pumping this great resource into ponds, landfill and out to sea.
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