See www.oliveology.co.uk
Not only has olive leaf tea a great flavour, but also detoxifying and healing properties. Olive leaves are exceptionally rich in vitamins A, B, C and E, and will give your body anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal boost. Great for colds, flu and infections.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Self sufficient-ish
See http://www.selfsufficientish.com/main/blog.php/
About Dave and Andy
For quite some time food has been Dave Hamilton’s passion. He began baking cakes as soon as he could pick up a spoon to stir the mixture. At the age of 10 he become a vegetarian and by the time he was 15 he was cooking all his own meals.
Andy is available for public speaking, freelance features, corporate and personal forages (wild food walks) and on a consultancy basis. To contact him please Email in the first instance – Andy at selfsufficientish dot com. (for Dave simply put Dave).
Photo ref: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68888883@N00/3647949351/in/pool-selfsufficientish/
About Dave and Andy
For quite some time food has been Dave Hamilton’s passion. He began baking cakes as soon as he could pick up a spoon to stir the mixture. At the age of 10 he become a vegetarian and by the time he was 15 he was cooking all his own meals.
Andy is available for public speaking, freelance features, corporate and personal forages (wild food walks) and on a consultancy basis. To contact him please Email in the first instance – Andy at selfsufficientish dot com. (for Dave simply put Dave).
Photo ref: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68888883@N00/3647949351/in/pool-selfsufficientish/
The Highland People's Food Seedbank Project
See http://thehighlandpeoplesfoodseedbank.webs.com/
The aim of this project is to bring local communities together, by involving individual gardeners, groups, allotment holders and schools in growing heirloom vegetables well adapted to the Highland climate and soils.
To instruct them on how to collect the seeds, clean, dry and package them in a home/kitchen environment, using everyday household tools.
These seeds will then be added to the Highland Peoples food seed bank, so that within 10 years enough viable food seed is held in domestic freezers (seedbanks) in villages and towns across the Highlands to feed its 250,000 inhabitants.
Information is also made available on saving the harvest by bottling, pickling, drying, clamping so that gardeners can overcome the short harvesting season in the Highlands.
EARTHSHIPS: ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES
Called "earthships", the homes currently under construction may not look like a typical des res but at a cost of £40,000 including solar power, own water supply and sewage system the tyre houses could provide a solution to the UK's low-cost housing crisis.
They are being built in Fife, Scotland and on the South Downs outside Brighton. When finished inside with plaster and outside with solar tiles and modern facing material they look like ultra-modern homes.
Each earthship requires 2,000 tyres and with 40 million being discarded each year in Britain there is enough free building material to construct 20,000 low-cost homes a year, according to Daren Howarth, of the Low Carbon Network, who is in charge of the South Downs project.
"I was both delighted and amazed at the positive attitude of Brighton councillors in giving planning permission," he said. "Sometimes there can be prejudice against new ideas but I said to them the Eden Project in Cornwall would never have got off the ground if the local councillors had not had vision. They decided to give us a chance."
Ref: http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/eco/eehome.html
They are being built in Fife, Scotland and on the South Downs outside Brighton. When finished inside with plaster and outside with solar tiles and modern facing material they look like ultra-modern homes.
Each earthship requires 2,000 tyres and with 40 million being discarded each year in Britain there is enough free building material to construct 20,000 low-cost homes a year, according to Daren Howarth, of the Low Carbon Network, who is in charge of the South Downs project.
"I was both delighted and amazed at the positive attitude of Brighton councillors in giving planning permission," he said. "Sometimes there can be prejudice against new ideas but I said to them the Eden Project in Cornwall would never have got off the ground if the local councillors had not had vision. They decided to give us a chance."
Ref: http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/eco/eehome.html
A Scottish Earthship
"It is the aim of Sustainable Communities Initiatives to demonstrate the Earthship's performance in the Scottish climate, as well as the costs involved and the best route through planning and building control."
Both the functionality and the aesthetics of the Earthship have been adapted for Scotland in the Earthship Fife project.
Stone-age Orkney: Hobbit homes in the village of Skara Brae
Stone-age Orkney: Hobbit homes in the village of Skara Brae
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For now at least, you can see the World Heritage-listed site in its original location. The village was occupied for 600 years before it was covered over with sand and dirt and grass. It remained hidden until a gale in 1850 ripped off the turf and exposed it to the world.
The houses and connecting passages are all made from stone.
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