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Welcome to the Depot Town Cottage network & website! We started out as Sustainable Michigan, morphed into 'On Catherine & Maple Streets' when we were 2 housholds and part of AMPY - and now, are simply 'the cottage'. __________________________________________________________________________ As the recent report on Climate change was very dire and urgent - here is a positve solution focused way forward:

Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series On-Line

www.networkearth.org

Creating and disseminating media to help regenerate the earth

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sustainable living worksheet Permaculture playlist

Monica's psychotherapy office

A neighborhood based urban farm network in Austin, Texas

Perennial Gardening - what can be grown with jerusalem artichokes in a polyculture where each plant enhances the growth of the others:

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/recipes/article6113976.ece......for a Recipe for 'Warm salad of Jerusalem artichokes and pink grapefruit, with gorgonzola dressing' (from The Sunday Times)
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Check this out ~ 30 seconds in steaming compost! This is how we want it! ; ) .

On raising Chickens:
http://www.essortment.com/all/chickenseggsli_rnzr.htm
http://homemade.truepath.com/chickens.htm
http://poultryone.com/articles/feedinghens.html

Both of these videos show a different kind of frame than we have - this look like they are a modified warre hive frame - ours has no frame, just the top bar, but the process for preparing it would be similar.

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Well hi there... just wanted to check in... will be very busy for a while and likely not posting too much as must be working and dealing with the minutiae of paying bills, chores and keeping the cat food coming...; ) You know how important that is.

I just got done doing some billing for my work and of a total of @ $3200 insurance billables... got a ck for $254. Well that was interesting. You just never know what those client deductibles will do to surprise you and them. Of course…

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Posted by Blog owner on February 1, 2018 at 1:04pm

Saving our greatest resource - fresh water

As I read the news about the unfolding disaster at Porter Ranch, the aging pipes that were not updated, the neglect and lack of appropriate secondary containment, the lack of a regulatory framework to enable regulators to intervene, and we revisit the awareness that there is no meaningful containment ability once such a leak…

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Posted by Blog owner on January 30, 2016 at 6:00pm