How the Panya Project makes easy probiotics LACTO

Lacto is also called Rejuvelac or probiotic water. You can make this literally for pennies. These probiotics have 1,001 applications from ingesting to treating fungal feet, pets, household cleaning, cleaning tools, and washing veggies and fruit. It’s a common product among homesteaders. Perhaps the main use is to repopulate healthy gut bacteria.

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Smokeless Stoves

Clean cooking stoves in place of open cooking fires are being provided in Nepal
Clean cooking stoves in place of open cooking fires are being provided in Nepal

I’ve been told that smokeless stoves are being built in every district of Nepal by the following two organizations:

Alternative Energy Promotion Center
“Improved cook stove (ICS) is a device that is designed to improve combustion efficiency of biomass, consume less fuel, save cooking time, convenient in cooking process and creates smokeless environment in the kitchen or reduction in the volume of smoke produced during cooking against the traditional stove.

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Sedgwick, Maine is first town to declare total food sovereignty

Sedgwick, Maine is first town to declare total food sovereignty, opposing state and federal laws

This is the right attitude toward gaining back our basic rights, whether it’s food rights (the right to buy and sell meat, eggs and produce with neighbors) or building codes. So even though the article may seem off-topic, it’s really not.

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Health Benefits of Earthbag Building as Opposed to Traditional Construction

Today’s post is a guest contribution by Krista Peterson. As more and more people continue to take on holistic lifestyles, it seems the benefits of doing so continue to grow in awareness. As has been shown through many examples, when it comes to the actual building process, using materials such as earthbags can not only … Read more