Tag Archive: off-grid

Off Grid Aquaponics Anywhere

Tammy Clayton

Growing fresh tomatoes in the basement year around? Awesome! The electric bill, however, was scary. The solution? Off grid aquaponics with its own power plant. While it’s possible to generate energy from organic waste to power an aquaponic system in your basement, that’s not what this married couple decided to do. While kicking around ideas…

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Urban Farming Pioneers: Growing Food & Futures

Need proof that urban farming can change the world? Take a look at what one group of urban pioneers, The Urban Farming Guys, have accomplished – without obtaining funding in order to get started. They set out to turn an inner city neighborhood around simply by being settlers. Over the past few years these families from the…
October 22, 2016
Amber

Make Your Own Sugar

Until last week, I never really thought about how to make sugar at home. It all started when we were digging through antique books, and I ran across the merits of growing beets for homesteaders. Not that I didn’t know that most sugar used in home cooking in the US comes from sugar beets… but…
February 13, 2016
Amber

The Earthship: Grounded Living

Coming from the north, east or west it seems like a little hill grown over by grass. Approaching the Earthship from the south, one finds a crystal-like greenhouse instead. Surprising, but with a moment’s thought, you realize that the windows are facing south for a good reason. They are directed toward the most sunlight, toward where the sun gives life – in…
January 4, 2016
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The Plant Reinvents The Urban Farm

There’s something amazing quietly growing on the Southwest side of Chicago, an unprecedented urban farming initiative known as, The Plant. It was hard to decide what category to put this post in, because John Edel’s vision and progress could fit in several here on Garden Culture, but since they describe themselves as a ‘vertical farm’…
April 10, 2015
Tammy Clayton