Small Space Permaculture Food Forest Garden on 1/4 Acre Home Lot


“John from Growing Your Greens.com (one of the top YouTube gardening channels with over 248,000 subscribers) goes on a field trip to visit Dr. Bob Randall’s Permaculture Food Forest in suburban Houston, Texas. In this .28 acre lot Bob grows over 150 varieties of fruit trees, a raised bed vegetable garden and more.

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Natural Building Blog — Number 2 on Google

Sustainable home built with natural materials.
Sustainable home built with natural materials.

Just for fun I did a search for the phrase “natural building” on Google, which is the world’s #1 search engine by far. The Wiki entry came up number one (as is often the case). Our Natural Building Blog is listed number two. Obviously we’ve come a long way over the last few years.

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Escaping the Rent Trap – Simple Living In A Lotus Belle Tent


“If you’ve ever dreamed of living in a luxury tent in the forest, then this may just be the set-up for you! Over the last couple of months we have been flat out finishing the Lotus Belle tent and getting everything ready for me to move in. I’m happy to say that I’m now living in the tent full time, and it’s incredible! The Lotus Belle will be my home while I finish building the Tiny House.”

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Free And Virtually Unlimited Fuel To Heat Your Home


“Every day we have tons of paper sent to us in the mail, boxes that our food is packaged in and in my case, lots of beer packaging. In this video I show you how to turn all that paper into something very useful, a way to heat your home for free.”

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Tiny House Homestead (“The Upcycled Micro Home”)


“Derek “Deek” Diedricksen (www.Relaxshacks.com, author of “Microshelters”), talks to Jess Sullivan, who alongside her partner Dan, built a gorgeous tiny house on a farm in Rhode Island. Jess and Dan’s tiny house is off-grid, with an array of solar panels, a water purifier, and employs a wealth of salvaged building materials, and clever upcycling.”

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Rice Hull Bag Workshop in Thailand

Rice Hull Bag Workshop in northern Thailand, November 2015
Rice Hull Bag Workshop in northern Thailand, November 2015

“Announcing the 2nd Rice-Husk-Bag Workshop! This will take place in northern Thailand, November 2015. We will learn how to build walls with bags filled with rice husks (hulls), benches with earthbags, put in doors and windows, cover the walls with a mud, sand and rice husk plaster, and add decorative bottle designs.

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