Category Archives: DIY

Homemade Gravity Chicken Feeder

Posted on November 11, 2011 by jkmcintyre
[caption id="attachment_1378" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Mason jar chicken feeder; Calamity Jane, Blanca, and Roo, Spring 2011"][/caption]

We have always used a gravity feeder for our chickens. For chicks we use the mason jar feeder (above). This works great, but only for a couple of months. By then the chickens eat enough that it must be refilled every other day, plus it is easy for Continue reading →

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The Warm Fuzzy of Insulation

Posted on October 17, 2011 by jkmcintyre

Last month we got a letter from our electric utility.  We are at the “100% percentile for electricity use among neighbours with houses similar to ours”. That’s the bad end of the spectrum. Of course, we don’t have any neighbours … Continue reading →

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Preserving Lemons

Posted on July 15, 2011 by jkmcintyre

When I first met our neighbours Brian and Krista they had recently preserved lemons and used them whole, stuffed in a roast chicken. It sounded delectable. It was nearly a year before I finally tried it myself and couldn’t believe … Continue reading →

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More Composting Fences

Posted on July 6, 2011 by jkmcintyre

SustainableScientist has been getting a lot of traffic this past year for the composting fence we built in 2009.  A lot of that traffic comes over from Willi Galloway’s DigginFood site, where she featured our fence during its construction. Currently, … Continue reading →

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