Part 3 of the ongoing saga.

Project: Lattice Porch Pt2

Heres a short video updating you on the progress of Project: Lattice porch. Did some concrete work, still have lots to do, hope you like the video.

New project

So here is a little intro video to my new project. Going to be building a covered porch made of lattice, to train honeysuckle and jasmine. Let me know what you think.

Convert your lawn into a veggie garden.

When you think about your front/back lawn, is it something you use daily? Do you go out and sit  or lay on it? Do you take long strolls in it? Do you get a return on your investment of money put into watering, and time spent cutting the grass edging, or maybe you hire a landscaper to do it?

If your answer is not really, to any of those above questions, and you enjoy eating fresh organic food, then maybe you might consider converting your lawn into a vegetable garden. There are tons of great advantages such as, creating a poly culture in your yard attracting beneficials insects, birds and other wild life. It can help reduce your grocery bill, and improve the quality of food you eat.  Now I know some of the arguments are "but lawns look so beautiful" etc. Well let me tell you veggie gardens can look beautiful too! Check these out.

Via -http://gardenbeautiful.wordpress.com/

Via-http://theraisedvegetablegardenbeds.com/

Here is a good book on the subject "Food not Lawns"

Also John from growingyourgreens.com has lots of great videos, and has an awesome front yard veggie garden.

Tell me your thoughts, do you know of anyone whose done this? How did it turn out?

Thanks --Dave

IKEA Gets Worms : TreeHugger

Here is a little post over at treehugger.com that i stumbled upon. Apparently they are going to do vermicomposting with all of the food scraps from there amazingly yummy kitchen scraps. Well the food is, the scraps are probably yucky..

IKEA Gets Worms : TreeHugger

Two new videos up

Hey everybody, I've uploaded two new videos. The first one is a "How to" video on making a DIY worm tower for your garden.

And the second video is the second installment of this years, garden update :) Enjoy

We had our first strawberry from our garden this year

It was pretty good , it wasn't this one, but it was one just like it :)

Yum! The good news is there are TONS more to come.

Lammas: The eco-village that lives off the grid - video

Lammas: The eco-village that lives off the grid - video

Worm Juice Video

Heres the little video i made about the worm juice.  When I was out in the garden today, everything looked very happy!

Got a worm tower made for a friend as a present, and harvested some worms to go along with them. Also harvested some worm juice from my new bins. Its only been sitting about a week or so and i already had a full cup of black liquid gold. I'll be posting  a short video of it soon.