Building a Food Forest -Scotland
Edwardian 1903 Home & Garden in Scotland Planting With Permaculture Design
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Hair Care (Part 2)
Month 5 – May It’s Hair Care – Part 2 Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen…
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Building a Mini Food Forest in a Raised Bed
You don’t need a huge space to start growing food and you don’t need a large space to start a food forest. Just start where you are & with what you have to move forward. Using the Permaculture Design Principles you can maximise your space to get the most from it. The different layers of…
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Cleaning Products
Month 4 – April It’s Cleaning Products Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My…
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Toothpaste
Month 3 – March It’s Toothpaste Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husband…
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Hair Care (Part 1)
Month 2 – February It’s Hair Care – Part 1 Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen…
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-12 Months- 12 Eco Changes- Making An Eco Swap Of Deodorant
Month 1- January It’s Deodorant Background….. As when I decided to go Vegan back in 2013, I started with the food, gradually as I did the next shop I swapped over the milk and butter and cheese, we obviously stopped eating or buying any meat but finding substitutes didn’t happen over night. My husband Peter…
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-No Waste Wednesday-What We Did With The Empty Compost Bags
What Did We Do? We had used a few ready made compost bags around the garden this last year and rather than throw away these bags , I started to look around for usages. I could have just turned them inside out & used them to make leaf mould in, the black sides would have…
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Sheet Mulching a Large Grass Lawn Area To Build A Food Forest
See Previous Posts Starting to Build a Food Forest, Where Did We Start? And Building a Food Forest in Scotland. Starting with the Tree Layer (Year 1) Where Did We Start From? This area had the 8 Fruit Trees & Cages planted across the back. The idea was to sheet mulch the whole area around…
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-No Waste Wednesday- How We Made Easy Toilet Bombs Using 3 Ingredients
What Did We Do? First we start by finding the ingredients we needed, we already had a large range of essential oils to use, bicarbonate of soda we use for cooking so we jut needed to source some citric acid granules which was easier than expected as it is widely sold and pretty cheap. As…
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