Chelsea Green

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Build Your Own Cold Frame, Part 2: Get a Jump on the Planting Season

By Chelsea Green / January 1, 2009 / Comments Off on Build Your Own Cold Frame, Part 2: Get a Jump on the Planting Season

The design of the cold box is the most important thing to keep in mind if you want it to be an effective tool for growing crops in the winter. Though it may seem like a complex task making a structure to shield against the winter chill, it’s a lot easier than you think. You…

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Replace Your Soap with Soapy Plants

By Chelsea Green / January 31, 2008 / Comments Off on Replace Your Soap with Soapy Plants

Sick of chemical-filled soaps that leave your hands feeling dirtier than before you washed them? Then we’ve got the project for you! Do it yourself soap with soapy plants! It’s as simple as adding water. The following project is from When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein. It has been adapted for the web. There is…

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Ten Surprising Facts About the Energy We Use

By Chelsea Green / January 31, 2008 / Comments Off on Ten Surprising Facts About the Energy We Use

The days of cheap oil energy have come to an end. What once was simple and cheap (i.e. driving to vacation) has become difficult and expensive. The skyrocketing cost (and limited supply) of energy has forced us to re-examine the energy we use in our daily lives. Below is a quick list of 10 facts…

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Rare and Hard-to-Find Perennial Seed Sources

By Chelsea Green / January 31, 2008 / Comments Off on Rare and Hard-to-Find Perennial Seed Sources

Eric Toesnmeier, author of Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow Edibles, knows the value of a good seed source. So, to encourage interesting selections for your food garden this summer, we thought we’d post this helpful seed source appendix from Perennial Vegetables. From the book: Perennial vegetables…

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