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 Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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 Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Sat May 27, 06 1:43 pm Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
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| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Thu May 25, 06 8:25 pm Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
Thankyou for your support downsizer people! I have learned a lot from this site and will continue to visit when I'm not out shopping with my new downsizer shopping bags!!!!
Fee.....t ... |
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pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Sat May 20, 06 6:17 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
Hello downsizer people!
We've been a bit overwhelmed with calls,emails and other things as a consequence of the series, so this is the first chance I've had to come here since the series ended! (we ... |
| Topic: What Inspired You? |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Sun May 14, 06 10:17 am Subject: What Inspired You? |
| laura ingalls wilder started me off too.....it was the bit where they make the molasses sticks for christmas, then the house under plum creek, the smell of the wood smoker, and the preparations for ch ... |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Sat May 13, 06 6:48 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
Thanks Stacey! See you this week maybe?
Was wondering if anyone on this forum has come accross the idea of using copper tools instead of iron as a way of discouraging slugs? We have been experiment ... |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Fri May 12, 06 9:10 pm Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
| I like the idea of goats (for milk), bees (for honey), downsizer carrier bags (for shoping).....anything we don't need to chop up to eat basically! Actually we have had bees for years but they didn't ... |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Thu May 11, 06 9:39 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
Just a quick one about the pigs..... 
We were allowed to have the pigs slaughtered on our own land. We were very fortunate to have met someone who was a professional slaughterman who was ... |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Mon May 08, 06 9:05 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
| Thankyou! |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Mon May 08, 06 7:32 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
| Well, I needn't have worried about 'coming out'! Thankyou for your comments, and please don't stop writing what you think about the programme or the way we do things....we are learning every day and t ... |
| Topic: Quick growing vegatables |
pumpkin
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon May 08, 06 7:12 am Subject: Quick growing vegatables |
| Straw bale pictures look amazing! When we did ours, the only reason we put them in plastic bin liners was because we needed them to stay intact for the move from Malvern to Cornwall...as soon as we go ... |
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pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Fri May 05, 06 7:16 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
| hello downsizer people! My name is Brigit, and I have been reading lots of very interesting and useful stuff on your site. It is great that our programme provokes so much discussion (most of it co ... |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Wed Apr 12, 06 5:27 pm Subject: was it runner beans? |
Boil 12oz runner/french beans for 2 minutes and drain.
Heat 5 tblsp olive oil, add finely chopped small onion and fry 10 minutes. Add 3 large sliced garlic cloves and fry another few minutes.
Stir i ... |
| Topic: "Its not easy being green" |
pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Wed Apr 12, 06 2:38 pm Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
Bag of compost in greenhouse was definately peat free from J Arthur Bowers.....(so THAT'S where all those little fungi came from!!)
The battery chickens from 'its not easy being green' have been la ... |
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pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Wed Apr 12, 06 7:16 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
Like the idea of the students powering a giant hampster wheel; they love doing anything that involves a lot of exercise....helps them work up a good thirst!
Water wheel provises average 400w. ... |
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pumpkin
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Thu Apr 06, 06 10:14 am Subject: "Its not easy being green" |
There's always enough sun in Cornwall!!! 
And when there's not, we have loads of rain for water wheel, or wind for turbines! |
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