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HOMEMADE SOLAR OVEN(11)
It’s summer and that means dusting off the solar ovens. No need to heat up the house hotter than it is for cooking simple foods.
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SUN OVEN COOK OFF!
Yesterday, we spent a wonderful afternoon across the street from the urban homestead with some very energetic 3rd graders who, for their science & social studies project, had to build a pizza box solar ovens. Not only did they do a great job of making the pizza box ovens, tbut hey also decorated the ovens [...]
(6) ANOTHER SHINY SOLAR OVEN
FACT: every day the sun shines, an equivalent of 4.25 TRILLION barrels of oil falls on the US alone in the form of solar energy I have a confession, I been addicted to solar ovens ever since we built our first cardboard, aluminum oven back in the days — 1990 to be exact. Yep, we [...]
(8) WHAT’S NEW FOR THE NEW YEAR? PROJECT #1
GROW FOR TEN THOUSAND Our readers know that that we’ve been hinting for months about a great new project in the works. As we start the new year, the moment has come to reveal our plan, along with a new logo exemplifying the revolutionary spirit of PTF’s Homegrown Revolution™: To harvest 10,000 pounds in 2008 [...]
(20) SHINE ON
Answers From the Urban Homestead – Solar Ovens Q. I would like to start using a solar oven, but the temps are dropping here in PA. Is there a minimum temperature at which the solar oven will work?Thanks for answering my question. And thanks for your work!Kym Helwig A. Thank you for your question and [...]
(Comments Off) COOKING WITH THE SUN
Solar ovens Peddler’s Wagon Product Review Practical products for the urban homesteader Sun Ovens Back in the early 1990′s I remember building our first sun oven using cardboard boxes, aluminum foil and piece of glass. Although homemade ovens are a great diy project (a few years back we built a sturdier sun oven using [...]
(4) DIY PIZZA BOX SUN OVEN
Simple Solar Solutions Hallmark Channel’s New Morning show visits the Dervaes family urban homestead. This family has started a homegrown revolution™ by being the change they wish to see by living the solution. On today’s show urban homesteader, Anais, show us how to build a simple sun oven using a pizza box. With this diy [...]
(Comments Off) URBAN HOMESTEAD HAPPENINGS
Edible landscaping in front yard (basil, marigolds,peppers, calamondin) Life Interrupted To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. — Plutarch We had hoped to have a few outstanding sustainable projects finished this summer, but we were so busy with the bumper summer harvest and other little things that interrupted our plans. [...]
(1) THE HEAT (& HUMIDITY) IS ON
Conscious cooking Hot & Muggy Whew, it feels as if we are living in a sauna. Temperatures and humidity levels are insane and there’s no relief in relief in sight The power companies are asking (should be mandatory!) folks to conserve energy and of course, we do our part here on the urban homestead. Opening [...]
(Comments Off) HERE COMES THE SUN
Deconstructing SOS Solar Oven When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven {Globe & Mail} Solar cooking has long been the domain of wilderness campers looking to harness the sun’s energy to make backwoods brownies.But with global warming in the collective consciousness, a small, growing number of urban dwellers are turning to solar [...]
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