Use small and slow solutions.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I am constantly looking at how time is spent. Particularly mine, occasionally the families. A fair chunk of my time is taken up with preparing meals and washing dishes. This frequently has me checking in on what others are doing in similar circumstances to see if there are short cuts I can take. The biggest … Continue reading Food Packaging, Gran & The Taste Monster
In many respects, life at our current Petit Paradis started with Compost Worms. We started our garden by initially burying food scraps directly into the sand and introducing some compost worms which we brought over from our previous residence. The worms quickly digested this organic matter into soil humus. This in turn introduced more of … Continue reading Petit Paradis – Compost Worms
On which day will that "One day..." finally arrive? I will admit this, there is a seemingly thin line between storing useful salvaged materials for use in garden and house projects and hoarding piles of absolute shite that will never get used. We are currently the stewards of some of this Stuff presently, and I … Continue reading Hoarding has Knobs on It
Ecological Debt Day or Earth Overshoot Day arrived. Yesterday. Each year someone that is better with numbers than I works out a calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year reaches a deficit. We cannot regenerate renewable resources quick enough within the same year. The actual science and calculations behind the day are … Continue reading Ecological Debt Day 2017
This post is a continuation of the previous post found here. Starting with some form of design creates a firmer commitment to actually implementing your project. And action is what is going to get the ball rolling. Where is everything and what are our inputs and outputs? The basics of our situation were that the … Continue reading Permaculture Paradise Part II
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