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How to make a chicken coop from a repurposed plastic barrel

Lesley Anderson of | 22-Apr-2018 | 13

Wooden chicken houses can be a nightmare, especially when they are infested with red mite: hiding in every crack and crevice and tormenting your hens. Those recycled plastic chicken houses can be expensive though and even they have some design flaws! Read more

On a small scale, why is it illegal to give food waste to chickens and other animals?

Imagine you have a factory producing sandwiches for supermarkets and petrol stations etc. Maybe you’re producing 100,000 packs a day or even more. Now imagine the worst thing that could happen. Perhaps someone comes in to work with food poisoning and contaminates the product and 100,000 people come down with food poisoning. Read more

How to make a 7-course meal for 12 people for free

Scarlett Penn of WWOOF UK | 09-Feb-2013 | 0

Recently some friends and I were served a sumptuous seven-course meal with a twist: every single ingredient came from the bin of a top-end retailer. Well, everything apart from the road-kill rabbit spotted on the way home. Read more

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The human impact on nature and on each other is accelerating and needs systemic change to reverse.

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