Five of the Best

Five sites for wannabe chicken keepers

February 15, 2008

Fresh eggs every morning. You can’t beat them – especially not if you plucked them from under the chicken yourself. Here’s Blagger’s rundown of the first sites you should turn to on the road to egg and meat self-sufficiency.

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Five must-have tools for growing vegetables

February 8, 2008

You can’t grow your own food, keep chickens or generate your own electricity without access to the outside world (herbs aside), and so before you start living the dream it’s necessary to get hold of a few outdoor essentials. Here are five affordable must-haves, including a bargain £20 greenhouse.

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Five wind-up, self-powered gadgets

February 1, 2008

Clockwork technology, made popular by the introduction of the Baygen wind-up radio, is coming on in leaps and bounds. Here, we’ve rounded up five essential clockwork add-ons to keep close at hand.

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Five Utility Switching websites

January 25, 2008

Gas and electricity prices are on the up, leading many consumers to look for an alternative supplier. Yet it seems there are just as many sites vying to give you that information as there are energy companies clamouring for an ever-increasing share of your cash. If you want to be self-sufficient, saving money is a must, so we’ve picked out five comparison sites.

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Five online ethical eco superstores

January 18, 2008

The saying ‘it’s not easy being green’ no longer rings true. The options for buying cleaner, more ethical, lower carbon products are growing by the day. So much so, in fact, that there are almost too many options. Here is Blagger’s pick of the top five online ethical or eco superstores. Nigel’s Eco Store is [...]

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Five self-sufficiency podcasts

January 11, 2008

For this week’s Five Friday Favourites, we’re taking a look at video and audio podcasts that cover growing and making your own food, plus one that looks at general money-saving tips. The links below connect directly to the audio and video streams, which you can subscribe to using iTunes or an RSS reader and listen [...]

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Unusual Online Seed Stores

January 4, 2008

For this week’s Five Friday Favourites, we’re continuing the theme of planning for the food growing year ahead by picking five of the UK’s less common online seed outlets, whose catalogues may have passed you by. Chiltern Seeds (actually based in Cumbria) sells over 4,500 varieties of rare or old seeds, covering both flowers and [...]

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