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By DGrover

A "sweat box" style germination chamber built using readily available parts and a broken chest freezer. Early season germination can be inconsistent without a closely controlled environment for starting seeds. Commercial greenhouses use similar systems but the cost can be...

By Andrew French

A simple hog-hut for 3 to 4 pigs. Strong and sturdy, will last for at least a year without major damage!

By Sunny Slope Orchard

This mobile chicken coop has two unique features: a simple mechanism for lowering wheels to raise the coop for moving, and a battery powered automatic door to let the birds out of the roosting enclosure in mornings. Thus it is...

By Jelmer Albada

This tool can be used in organic weed management, some use it also for harvesting. It makes the work more labour friendly.

By versaland

A mobile distillery, spirit-making equipment direct to farm and forest.

By Sunny Slope Orchard

These are several types of bird scare machines that I have devised over the years to successfully control bird damage to my small stone fruit orchard. They are low-tech but highly effective and would be equally useful for gardens or...

By JPKearns

Fabricating a 200 L Biomass Gasifier for Making Enhanced Water Filter Biochar: The basics of biomass gasification: a low-cost, user-friendly and environmentally sustainable method for making good water filter char from agricultural and forestry residues. Open access handbook available from Aqueous...

By JPKearns

Constructing a Portable Drinking Water Treatment Plant: A detailed guide for setting up a 300 L/day small drinking water treatment plant from inexpensive materials that can be carried on foot into remote locations and installed with filter media acquired/generated on-site. Open...

By JPKearns

Constructing a Multi-Barrier Water Treatment System Using Local Materials: The basics of water treatment and targeted approaches for removing both biological and chemical threats to drinking water quality. Detailed instructions for building a ~ 2000 L/day community water system incorporating...

By Sunny Slope Orchard

This is my home built no-till seed drill I use for planting legume mix winter cover crop seed in our stone fruit orchard. It produces very uniform seed spacing and depth with minimal soil disturbance, allowing optimum germination in our...