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How To Make Stackable Fruit Crates From Old Pallets

Here’s an ingenious way to crate your picked fruit so your collection doesn’t bruise and go bad fast. Take some old pallets and re-purpose them into these stack-able fruit crates. This is a really cool DIY project and you show

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How To Build A Hugelkultur Garden Bed

Hugelkultur (from the German, hill culture) is a method of building a garden bed.  It hails from the permaculture world and means building a bed either by piling up wood and branches on the surface of the soil or digging a

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How To Build A Mailbox Stove

I thought I’ve seen it all when it comes to different concoctions to cook stuff without power, but this definitely is among my new favorites. Have you ever seen a mailbox stove? Well now you have. And if you want

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DIY Miniature Soda Can Solar Heater

This is brilliant – and easy to do. Using a few soda cans, some spare wood, some leftover plexiglass and a couple of old CPU fans – you too can make a miniature solar heater that is designed to sit

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How To Make A Hanging Gutter Garden

Talk about being creative. Read this post to see how to make a vertical garden using gutters. A great example of re-purposing and recycling. But why even bother using gutters? Gutter gardens are a great way to take advantage of

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Affordable DIY Auxiliary Solar Arrays

Even though solar power is free and a sustainable form of energy, it doesn’t mean it’s cheap to put it to work for you. If you pay a company to install solar panels for you the conventional way, it can

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How To Build A Concrete Block Raised Bed Garden

So you have lousy soil or limited space, but you still want to garden? Build a raised bed garden! Most people will tell you to use wood for your raised bed vegetable garden, but after reading this article, you’ll understand

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How To Make A Hobo Stove

This is a neat little DIY project and definitely a good thing to know how to do. Because you never know when you might need some fire for cooking. So knowing how to make a hobo stove  can mean the

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Coffee Can Survival Kit For Your Car

Have you ever thought of converting an old empty coffee can into a survival kit for your car? This is a really great example of re-purposing and recycling old stuff that would otherwise take up space in some landfill. Plus

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How To Make A Food Dehydrator From A Dorm or Old Refrigerator

If you want to get into dehydrating foods for long term storage or just because you like eating dehydrated fruits, it’s going to cost you some money to purchase a food dehydrator (also known as food dryer). Especially if you

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