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Image | 5 Tasty Ways to Eat Your Tomato Harvest All Year
5 Tasty Ways to Eat Your Tomato Harvest All Year
by JW

A nice set of recipes and ideas for using those tomatoes from the garden.  Or pick up some extras or new varieties from the local farmers market and put up some stored food for later.  Build and replenish that deep pantry.

http://www.treehugger.com/easy-vegetarian-recipes/5-tasty-ways-eat-tomatoes-all-year.html

5 Tasty Ways to Eat Your Tomato Harvest All Year
 by JW

A nice set of recipes and ideas for using those tomatoes from the garden.  Or pick up some extras or new varieties from the local farmers market and put up some stored food for later.  Build and replenish that deep pantry.

http://www.treehugger.com/easy-vegetarian-recipes/5-tasty-ways-eat-tomatoes-all-year.html

Image | A Simple Pump in a Bored Well
A Simple Pump in a Bored Well
by JW

One of the largest components of resiliency building is access to water.  For those with a well, a simple pump can be great investment to include in your overall plans for accessing water during a grid down situation or as a backup mechanical pump. Here is another sample with Engineer775 and a simple pump installation.

http://youtu.be/StvzFubVYMo
A Simple Pump in a Bored Well
 by JW

One of the largest components of resiliency building is access to water.  For those with a well, a simple pump can be great investment to include in your overall plans for accessing water during a grid down situation or as a backup mechanical pump. Here is another sample with Engineer775 and a simple pump installation.

http://youtu.be/StvzFubVYMo
Image | Cooking with the Sun
Cooking with the Sun
by Hilarybethhodge

We hit 108°F this week in the Sierra Foot Hills of California.  It's too hot to do much of anything, but it is definitely too hot to cook in the house.  We have used our sun oven all summer, but this week we were particularly thankful to have an outdoor cooking apparatus, something that requires no electricity, charcoal, or propane.

The following recipes are fool-proof, easy, and reliable recipes for cooking in your sun-oven.  You don't have to own a sun oven or solar cooker to use these recipes; you can easily use these recipes in your electric or gas oven as well.  However, I highly recommend a sun oven.  They are efficient, easy to use, and help to keep the heat outside on hot summer days.
Cooking with the Sun
 by Hilarybethhodge

We hit 108°F this week in the Sierra Foot Hills of California.  It's too hot to do much of anything, but it is definitely too hot to cook in the house.  We have used our sun oven all summer, but this week we were particularly thankful to have an outdoor cooking apparatus, something that requires no electricity, charcoal, or propane.

The following recipes are fool-proof, easy, and reliable recipes for cooking in your sun-oven.  You don't have to own a sun oven or solar cooker to use these recipes; you can easily use these recipes in your electric or gas oven as well.  However, I highly recommend a sun oven.  They are efficient, easy to use, and help to keep the heat outside on hot summer days.
Image | Carole Morison, Industrial Chicken Farmer From ‘Food, Inc.’ Switches To Sustainable Farming
Carole Morison, Industrial Chicken Farmer From ‘Food, Inc.’ Switches To Sustainable Farming
by JW

Good to see people can change and move towards using more sustainable methods and be healthier and happier because of it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/carole-morison-food-inc-chicken-farmer_n_1760444.html

Carole Morison, Industrial Chicken Farmer From ‘Food, Inc.’ Switches To Sustainable Farming
 by JW

Good to see people can change and move towards using more sustainable methods and be healthier and happier because of it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/carole-morison-food-inc-chicken-farmer_n_1760444.html

Image | Do’s and Don’ts of Composting Worms
Do’s and Don’ts of Composting Worms
by JW

A nice knowledge refresher on working with your worms.

http://www.urbanfarmonline.com/urban-gardening/backyard-gardening/dos-donts-composting-worms.aspx

Also review the WSID article on Vermiculture here: Vermiculture: Getting Down and Dirty with Worms

Do’s and Don’ts of Composting Worms
 by JW

A nice knowledge refresher on working with your worms.

http://www.urbanfarmonline.com/urban-gardening/backyard-gardening/dos-donts-composting-worms.aspx

Also review the WSID article on Vermiculture here: Vermiculture: Getting Down and Dirty with Worms

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