Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 01 April 2012 | 3 Comments
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Herbs, Ishers Tips
Many thanks to our latest guest blogger Mandy Allen, aka Millymollymandy, one of the longest standing and most loyal selfsufficientish forum members. She lives the good life in over in Chateau Moorhen, France and is a prolific gardener, nature lover and blogger. Pollinating insects such as bees, hoverflies and many other flying insects are absolutely essential to the reproduction [...]
Yazan: admin | 14 March 2010 | 10 Comments
Categories: Budget living, Enivronmentally friendly, Ishers Tips, Livestock, Reference
Whether you approach it from the point of view of conservation, entomology, crop pollination or simply a love of honey, beekeeping is an engaging pursuit and a fascinating window on the natural world. So what does it take to become a beekeeper? The essentials are simple enough: some sort of hive, a hat and a [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 17 February 2010 | 11 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Ishers Tips
The wine you made in Part 2 is by no means great. It’s OKish, but it has lots of faults. Think for a moment about drinking a reasonably good wine made from grapes. What are your impressions? There’s a certain indefinable “feel” in the mouth, a sort of viscosity which your new wine doesn’t have. [...]
Yazan: red | 27 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Ishers Tips, Livestock
Method 1: by Red you will need: a washing up bowl washing soda crystals washing up liquid hot water The method I use is to only work on a small part of fleece at a time, the advantage being that it’s not so daunting and you can keep the rest of the fleece ‘in the [...]
Yazan: IshBot | 06 January 2010 | 14 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Ishers Tips
Messing around in a bucket Those somewhat fictitious “traditional” ancestors of ours made wine in anything they could find. Usually, they would have started it in a big bowl covered with a cloth and then finished it off in a salt-glaze earthenware pot – at which point they couldn’t see it any longer. And that’s [...]
Yazan: IshBot | 11 December 2009 | 9 Comments
Categories: Home Brew, Ishers Tips
Getting rid of the fairy stories By MKG If I said to a fairly representative group “Take some fruit juice, squeeze some lemon juice into it, empty a bag of sugar into it, top up to about a gallon with water from the tap and then stir or shake until everything’s dissolved” then I’d witness [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 29 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Homemade, Ishers Tips
The subject of face masks and making your own beauty products recently came up on our message forum. One of our members Manx minx posted a few of her recipes for making organic face masks, she gave her permission for us to put them up so here they are. Dry Skin mask | Honey Face [...]
Yazan: admin | 28 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Ishers Tips
Despite our best efforts we don’t always have enough time to bake bread and end up nipping out to buy a loaf. The thing is each loaf comes in its own plastic bag. If you really can’t bring yourself to chuck the bags in the bin as they might have a use, or even if [...]
Yazan: admin | 01 April 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, Ishers Tips
Many people are put off by the concept of Composting Toilets. The reality is that a basic, home made Composting Toilet is beneficial in so many ways and not really much of a chore at all. What is so difficult about emptying a bucket covered in sawdust once every week or so? I have now [...]
Yazan: admin | 19 February 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Ishers Tips
Dandelions are considered to be weeds, but the brightness of their color always makes me want to make use of these weeds to my advantage. You do not have to go very far and sooner or later you are bound to come across a golden patch of dandelions. Gather your dandelions (select from a site [...]
