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11 Beekeeping Tips Every Beginner Should Know
Beekeeping Tips I Wish I Had When I Started Keeping Bees When it comes to keeping honeybees there’s a lot of contradictory advice. There’s an old saying that if you ask 100 beekeepers a question you’ll get 101 answers. A long time beekeeper even told me that bees can’t con...
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Beekeeping Tips I Wish I Had When I Started Keeping Bees When it comes to keeping honeybees there’s a lot of contradictory advice. There’s an old saying that if you ask 100 beekeepers a question you’ll get 101 answers. A long time beekeeper even told me that bees can’t con...
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DIY Home Aquaponics System
Building A Home Aquaponics System From Off The Shelf Parts From 2012-2016 students and I designed, built, and ran an aquaponics system at Jasper Place High School. The aquaponics system was great for a school but way too big and expensive for the average home. The whole project was an amazing exp...
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Building A Home Aquaponics System From Off The Shelf Parts From 2012-2016 students and I designed, built, and ran an aquaponics system at Jasper Place High School. The aquaponics system was great for a school but way too big and expensive for the average home. The whole project was an amazing exp...
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Reintroducing The World’s Best Lawn Mower
The Orignal And Best Lawn Mower On The Market When it comes to getting that perfect cut and keeping a healthy, natural lawn, you can’t beat one of these. Seriously, this is a grass powered lawn mower with a fertilizer attachment. No, honestly! Grasses co-evolved with the herbivores t...
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The Orignal And Best Lawn Mower On The Market When it comes to getting that perfect cut and keeping a healthy, natural lawn, you can’t beat one of these. Seriously, this is a grass powered lawn mower with a fertilizer attachment. No, honestly! Grasses co-evolved with the herbivores t...
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The 5 Best Ways To Water Your Garden
If you’re constantly using the garden hose, there’s a chance that you’re doing it wrong. Doing what wrong? Watering. Actively and continuously needing to water your garden is a sign that you may have overlooked some simple but powerful water harvesting techniques. Here are 5 wa...
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If you’re constantly using the garden hose, there’s a chance that you’re doing it wrong. Doing what wrong? Watering. Actively and continuously needing to water your garden is a sign that you may have overlooked some simple but powerful water harvesting techniques. Here are 5 wa...
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People Keep Asking Me About Flow Hives. Here’s My Take
An Edmonton Flow Hive Review If you’re thinking about beekeeping, you’ve probably heard about the Flow Hive. Heck, if you’re thinking about beekeeping, it’s probably because of Flow Hives! I can’t think another piece of modern beekeeping equipment that has captured t...
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An Edmonton Flow Hive Review If you’re thinking about beekeeping, you’ve probably heard about the Flow Hive. Heck, if you’re thinking about beekeeping, it’s probably because of Flow Hives! I can’t think another piece of modern beekeeping equipment that has captured t...
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11 Reasons That Edmonton Is A Magpie
Magpie. The Bird We Love To Hate I know of no other Edmonton resident more controversial than Pica hudsonia; often referred to as the black-billed magpie or an annoying jerk. While many of us resent its 4am wake-up calls, others find the Edmonton magpie fascinating. It’s the bird that Bird ...
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Magpie. The Bird We Love To Hate I know of no other Edmonton resident more controversial than Pica hudsonia; often referred to as the black-billed magpie or an annoying jerk. While many of us resent its 4am wake-up calls, others find the Edmonton magpie fascinating. It’s the bird that Bird ...
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Raw Edmonton Honey
Buy Local Raw Edmonton Honey 100% raw Edmonton honey for sale. Unpasteurized, unfiltered, and harvested from naturally managed backyard honeybees in the heart of Edmonton. All of the honey is extracted from Beecentric Hives located in various mature Edmonton neighborhoods (McCauley, Westmount, an...
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Buy Local Raw Edmonton Honey 100% raw Edmonton honey for sale. Unpasteurized, unfiltered, and harvested from naturally managed backyard honeybees in the heart of Edmonton. All of the honey is extracted from Beecentric Hives located in various mature Edmonton neighborhoods (McCauley, Westmount, an...
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Sustainable Me Podcast
Sustainable Me: Learning From Nature and Schools As Ecosystems The following is an edited transcript from the Sustainable Me Podcast recorded in the summer of 2016. Over the course of twelve and a half minutes, we touch on permaculture, biophilic design, and an ecological approach to education. S...
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Sustainable Me: Learning From Nature and Schools As Ecosystems The following is an edited transcript from the Sustainable Me Podcast recorded in the summer of 2016. Over the course of twelve and a half minutes, we touch on permaculture, biophilic design, and an ecological approach to education. S...
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Three Reasons To De-Extinct Lost Species
Why Would We Want To Bring Back Extinct Animals? An anonymous user on Quora asks: “Why would we want to bring back extinct animals? Not to sound like a jerk, well maybe ‘recently’ extinct animals like the Tasmanian Tiger or the dodo bird. But what about mammoths for example, how...
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Why Would We Want To Bring Back Extinct Animals? An anonymous user on Quora asks: “Why would we want to bring back extinct animals? Not to sound like a jerk, well maybe ‘recently’ extinct animals like the Tasmanian Tiger or the dodo bird. But what about mammoths for example, how...
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Edmonton Beekeeping Courses
City of Edmonton Approved Beekeeping Course Once again, the John Janzen Nature Centre (JJCN) and I are teaming up to offer City approved* beekeeping courses. Offered twice in the spring and twice in the fall, each course consisting of a full day of theory and a half-day of hands-on experience. Th...
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City of Edmonton Approved Beekeeping Course Once again, the John Janzen Nature Centre (JJCN) and I are teaming up to offer City approved* beekeeping courses. Offered twice in the spring and twice in the fall, each course consisting of a full day of theory and a half-day of hands-on experience. Th...
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Edmonton’s 3rd Annual River Valley Food Forest
We’re Adding Thousands of Edible Perennials to Edmonton’s River Valley Food Forest On a South facing slope of Mackinnon ravine, lies Edmonton’s first publicly planted river valley food forest; a self-sufficient edible ecosystem, that captures water, increases biodiversity, reduc...
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We’re Adding Thousands of Edible Perennials to Edmonton’s River Valley Food Forest On a South facing slope of Mackinnon ravine, lies Edmonton’s first publicly planted river valley food forest; a self-sufficient edible ecosystem, that captures water, increases biodiversity, reduc...
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West Edmonton Mall Ice Palace Greenhouse
The West Edmonton Mall Ice Palace Greenhouse. Because Who Among Us Hasn’t Though “Jeez, I Could Really Go For Some Locally Gown Mall Kale Right Now?” We’ve all been there. Shopping for the holidays. Walking from one end of the Mall to the other. Feet aching and arms filled...
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The West Edmonton Mall Ice Palace Greenhouse. Because Who Among Us Hasn’t Though “Jeez, I Could Really Go For Some Locally Gown Mall Kale Right Now?” We’ve all been there. Shopping for the holidays. Walking from one end of the Mall to the other. Feet aching and arms filled...
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Introduction To Permaculture
Course: Introduction To Permaculture Design Let’s face it, gardening is a ton of work. Who has time for all that watering, weeding, tilling, and spraying? What if I were to tell you that there’s an easier way. It’s called permaculture. Simply put, permaculture is a design proces...
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Course: Introduction To Permaculture Design Let’s face it, gardening is a ton of work. Who has time for all that watering, weeding, tilling, and spraying? What if I were to tell you that there’s an easier way. It’s called permaculture. Simply put, permaculture is a design proces...
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Spring 2016 Hive Orders
Option 1: Reserve A Hive With A Deposit ($50/Hive) Option 2: Purchase Hive In Full ($200/Hive) The post Spring 2016 Hive Orders appeared first on Dustin Bajer.
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Option 1: Reserve A Hive With A Deposit ($50/Hive) Option 2: Purchase Hive In Full ($200/Hive) The post Spring 2016 Hive Orders appeared first on Dustin Bajer.
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