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Easy-to-grow crops, the ultimate eco house and solar panel loans

February 5, 2010
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The government is set to make solar power a lot more attractive, while one homeowner in the Cotswolds has built himself a house that costs just £60 a year to heat. Plus The Guardian is highlighting easy to grow crops.

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Make your own chicken doorstop

April 7, 2009

Chicken doorstopThe Guardian has published instructions for sewing your own fabric chicken doorstop using off-cuts of old clothes. We have our own at home, but it gets so much attention it may be time to make some more.

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Smallholdings for sale

March 19, 2009

Want to progress beyond a back yard for keeping your chickens and growing your potatoes? Then it’s time to buy into a proper smallholding. The trouble is they don’t often come up in the local paper, but these sites can help.

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Home-made Christmas cards

November 19, 2008

Planning on making your own Christmas cards this year? This site of templates for making 3D pop-up greetings could be all the inspiration you need.

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links for 2008-11-06

November 6, 2008

Hens eggs exploding because of hot-air balloons
"Hens are dropping dead on a free-range farm because hot-air balloons and low-flying aircraft are causing their eggs to explode inside them."
Apparently the sound of the burners firing sends them into a panic. They run for cover, bumping into each other, and their eggs break internally. Scary stuff.
(tags: chickens)

London [...]

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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 one [...]

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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 to [...]

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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 vegetables. [...]

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