We got tired of spending over $1-a-bar for soap several weeks ago, so we started looking around for ways to make soap at home. Most soapmaking was either dangerous — “lye can cause an explosion” — or too time-consuming — “let the soap cure for 30-days.” So, we kept looking until we found [...]
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Soap-making in 4 easy steps
Posted in do-it-ourselves, projects, simple things, tagged clearly natural soaps, do-it-yourself, glycerin soap, melt and pour soap, soap, soapmaking, soapmaking at home on June 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Square-foot garden taking shape
Posted in animals, do-it-ourselves, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged DIY, do-it-yourself, gardening, organic gardening, pretty kitty, raised beds, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, simple life, square foot garden, sustainable life, vegetable bed preparation, vegetable garden on March 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Debbie and I assembled the raised bed boxes for our square-foot vegetable garden yesterday and today. Here’s what we used:
Eight 8′ rough sawn 2×8s. Cost: $54.00
32 galvanized lag bolts. Cost $21.00
17′ of 48″ wide hardware cloth (wire mesh). Cost $34.00
34′ of 36″ wide landscape fabric. Cost: $16.50
Total cost was $125.50. [...]

