DIY rain barrel

Solutions: Food

Starting seeds can seem a little bit intimidating at first, but it's actually quite easy and just so fun to watch your little seeds grow from a speck to a happy seedling.

Solutions: Power

Great news! You don't have to build a custom house to incorporate passive solar design into your life. In this post, methods are adapted from passive solar design principles to apply to your already-existing apartment or house, using affordable materials.

Make your own ginger beer in less than 5 minutes with this easy recipe. The best ginger beer you've ever had for a tiny fraction of the cost. Great for straight drinking, mixed drinks, and as anti-nausea medicine.

Did you know that you can make 5 gallons of cider in less than 5 minutes? Seems criminal to buy the stuff when you can make it with $2/gal run-of-the-mill apple juice. You can spruce up your cider by getting creative with additives: try a dry-hopped cider, peach-elderberry, pineapple hibiscus... so many possibilities!

Low water toilet retrofit

This incredibly easy solution will save you a half a gallon per flush, or for a pre-’94 toilet, 1,825 gallons of water per year, equivalent to 107 showers or enough drinking water for one person for 10 years!

Compost wiggler bin

An easy way to compost especially with limited space.