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Category: Apartment Homesteading

Black Soldier Fly Larva Harvester

September 1, 2017
Apartment Homesteading, Quail

Black soldier fly larva are voracious decomposers. Here’s a video of a some larva completely devouring a hamburger over the course […]

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Inaguration Day

January 20, 2017
Apartment Homesteading, T-Brick Shed

Heating wax and comfrey’lavender  infused oil In the spirit of contrarianism I thought I should try to get something useful […]

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Peppers: Let the fermenting begin!

December 10, 2016
Apartment Homesteading

A freeze finally took out the pepper plants on our balcony. Even so, I had already harvested more than we […]

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Peppers at last

October 30, 2016
Apartment Homesteading, Gardening

I planted a Tabasco, cayenne and poblano pepper plant on our balcony back in June. They quickly got big and […]

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Apartment Homesteading: Growing Sprouts in a Milk/Juice Carton

February 29, 2016
Apartment Homesteading

Materials: Empty Carton, Funnel, Scissors, dry beans No shed updates this week. Jean’s parents will be visiting us soon. They’ll […]

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One of the these eggs is not like the other

February 4, 2016
Apartment Homesteading, Chickens

I guess we’ve put on enough daylight hours since the winter solstice that my parents’ chickens have starting laying again. […]

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I finally got all the pieces to install a wood sto I finally got all the pieces to install a wood stove in the cottage. However, it's back to 70 degrees in central Texas.
We finished the interior plaster of the Earth Berm We finished the interior plaster of the Earth Berm Cottage this weekend. Here's a short video. I'll post a more in depth video about earthen plaster after we finish the exterior.

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We got a lot done during our first plastering part We got a lot done during our first plastering party yesterday! More to follow. 

Also I just posted a blog/video about framing and infilling the cottage interior walls, installing the ceiling and building and elevated platform for the bed (sleeping nook)

https://offgridburbia.com/ebc-interior-finishing-walls-ceiling-and-trim/
I put down the final layer of the earthen floor in I put down the final layer of the earthen floor in the Earth Berm Cottage yesterday. I'll put up a full video of the install in a few weeks.

#naturalbuilding #earthenfloor #tinyhouse
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