Laundry 
HAND WASHING(39)
Recently, we had an “episode” with our eight year old energy/water efficient washing machine. Although we do wash by hand, we do use our machine especially when things get a little rushed around here
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AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD pt 2
We wrap up another busy week with a pictorial dispatch – highlighting our new grey water project and more! Goat Walk & Talk Student working on an profiling some local eco heroes for a NPR radio piece comes along on one of our goat walks. Jordanne shows her some wild edibles that are popping up [...]
(5) HOMESTEAD HAPPENINGS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
De-Cluttering There are so many draft journal postings it’s becoming a cluttered, disorganized mess. So, before the year is out I am going to try to a bit of “cyber cleaning.” Anyhow, feeling a bit posting fatigue at the moment so, the less said/written, the better. Here are a few new posts with some exciting [...]
(6) ALL IN A DAYS WORK
Nitty gritty Another sweaty, dirty, dusty, filthy day for the guys. This awful humidity makes an already dirty job even worse – the dust just sticks to the skin and becomes muddy. We are all certainly thankful for the sun shower – we are certainly using it a lot these days. As for me, [...]
(4) UNPLUGGED
Line drying We received our James Hand Washer with Wringer today! Even though we have a low water and Energy Saving washing machine, collect the wash water to water certain plants and have no dryer, we feel less wasteful with this non electric appliance. One thing less to plug into the little sockets in the [...]
(3) POST SCRIPT
In my last post I forgot to mention where we got our TWILIGHT LAUNDRY APPLIANCE . Here’s an excerpt from my email to one of our reader’s question regarding where one can purchase it: We purchased ours from Global-light-network.com They are doing some changes on their site, so you’ll have to call them and talk [...]
(0) NEW GROWTH
Baby apricots “We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order togrow.” ~ Anonymous ~ We got some (two) new composters from the city on Friday, they are offering them at reduced prices ($27 compared to $80 in some garden catalog). We are trying to faze out using the large [...]
(0) O WATER WHERE ART THOU?
In our attempts to try to conserve water this year {See WATER CHART}, the guys are installing a drip system that will allow us to water each of the raised beds in the backyard. This should help us reduce our water bill, not to forget to mention that we are getting a energy and water [...]
(0) TOOTHACHE PLANT
Toothache Plant THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF HERBS The other day, I had pain from wisdom teeth coming in and since we are growing new herb calledTOOTHACHE PLANT in the yard I gave it a try. And to, my surprise– wait a second here, in fact I shouldn’t be surprised as I am a believer of [...]
(2) SMELLS LIKE SUNSHINE
Here are two cool sites that I have come across in my surfing the web: Clothes Pins for the Revolution: Scouring the web for anti-consumerist and ant-exploitation information.Project Laundry List : Organization focusing on sustainable forms of energy, through art, advocacy, action and education. Weather Report: Overcast in the morning but clearing to be quite [...]
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