More and more urban homesteaders are getting curious about raising rabbits. It is often times the ultimate goal to become more self sufficient and rabbits can help with that. In fact they may be one of the easiest and best ways to help you further your self sufficient homestead goals. How so? Why rabbits? Well there are a few reasons why someone might choose to introduce rabbits to the homestead...besides the cute factor. I have a few rabbits myself... giant chinchilla rabbits and red new … [Read more...]
The Scoop on Indoor Air Pollution
When you think about all the pollutants we breathe outside from the cars, factories, and businesses all around us it may come as a shock to know that in general, INDOOR air pollution is more likely to be a problem for us. Not only do the indoors have their own serious issues, as much as 25% of outdoor pollution can follow us indoors. Inside of doors you will actually find 2 to 5 times the amount of air pollution. Scary! Think about how many hours we spend inside. According to the graphic below … [Read more...]
Reclaimed and Recycled Dog Toys
We don't have any dogs in our home...yet. We badly want one but we are renters and it's just too much stress to have a pet at this time. To get our fill we have to make regular trips to Nana's house where there are two furbabies available to love on. Every year the #1 Christmas gift priority award is bestowed upon those dogs by my kids. Forget everyone else in the family...as long as those doggies have full stockings we are all good. This means I have to be on the lookout for more planet … [Read more...]
Worm Factory for Indoor Composting
A couple weeks ago we welcomed some new "pets" into the house... Red Wrigglers (worms). They even have a posh new condo in the kitchen so they are getting royal treatment. They are of course expected to pay their way in the form of wonderfully rich and dark compost for our garden this spring/summer. When we moved into this house it came with no composting area and we had other things on our mind prior to winter so we gave up composting for awhile. But I started to feel guilty about that as I … [Read more...]
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