Urban Survivalists
Blog URL http://www.urbansurvivalists.com
Tags Portland, urban, survivalists, sustainable, green, eco, home, diy, environment
We showing people how to be sustainable with do it yourself projects! Come here to learn how to improve your own home and life and make it more eco friendly. We don't just talk about being green, we are doing it and showing you how.
Latest Blog Posts
- Aeroponics First Planting Progress Day 48 on Oct 5, 2009 in Aeroponics Plant Progress aeroponic arduino blog bucket collection crackgerbal demented chihuahua diy five fog fogger food gallon garden grow grown hydroponic nutrient osmosis phase 6 plant plants power supply program project prototype rain reverse seed solution sprout survivalists system transformer treat urban UV vegetable water
Hey everyone, Long time no write…we know…sorry. The good news is that we finally are moved into our new house and no longer have to worry about a landlord telling us not to install something. The bad news is that in order to do so, we had...
- Aeroponics First Planting Progress Day 33 on Sep 20, 2009 in Aeroponics Plant Progress Rain Water Collection aeroponic arduino blog bucket collection crackgerbal demented chihuahua diy five fog fogger food gallon garden grow grown hydroponic nutrient osmosis phase 6 plant plants power supply program project prototype rain reverse seed solution sprout survivalists system transformer treat urban UV vegetable water
We’ve been away for awhile! I’m sure you noticed. We had a couple very good reasons for this. Mainly, we are attempting to buy a house, get moved, and get ready for Stan to start classes again all at the same time. It’s been sort of...
- Aeroponics First Planting Progress Day 19 on Sep 5, 2009 in Aeroponics Plant Progress aeroponic arduino blog bucket crackgerbal demented chihuahua diy five fog fogger food gallon garden grow grown hydroponic nutrient osmosis phase 6 plant plants power supply program project prototype reverse seed solution sprout survivalists transformer urban UV vegetable
Here there everybody! We are going to show you some more pics on the plant progress. It looks like the peas are developing some mold on the ends of the roots. We turned down the fogger timing down so that it is fogging once every four minutes. We hop...
- Aeroponics First Planting Progress Day 16 on Sep 2, 2009 in Aeroponics Plant Progress aeroponic arduino blog bucket crackgerbal demented chihuahua diy five fog fogger food gallon garden grow grown hydroponic nutrient osmosis phase 6 plant plants power supply program project prototype reverse seed solution sprout survivalists transformer urban UV vegetable
Today we have some pretty exciting leaf related news. Our first stem has finally fully emerged and is now in the process of fully extending. Soon it will actually look like a pea plant because of something other than the residual pea it grew out of!
- Aeroponics First Planting Day 14 on Aug 31, 2009 in Aeroponics Plant Progress aeroponic arduino blog bucket crackgerbal demented chihuahua diy five fog fogger food gallon garden grow grown hydroponic nutrient osmosis phase 6 plant plants power supply program project prototype reverse seed solution sprout survivalists transformer urban UV vegetable
We see much root development now! Things are really getting going and we feel it’s worth while to post another update to our first planting. all our pea plants but two have died–all our plants for that matter. Here are some pictures: Mu...
- Systems on Aug 30, 2009 in Policy and Politics diy point-of-use policy sustainability Systems
Since beginning our blog and the projects associated with it, we have been doing a lot of thinking about what it is, exactly, we are doing. Today, we’d like to go into a little more detail about what this means and how it can be applied on a la...
- Aeroponics First Planting Progress Day 10 on Aug 27, 2009 in Aeroponics Plant Progress aeroponic arduino blog bucket crackgerbal demented chihuahua diy five fog fogger food gallon garden grow grown hydroponic nutrient osmosis phase 6 plant plants power supply program project prototype reverse seed solution sprout survivalists transformer urban UV vegetable
Sorry about missing yesterday! Things got out of hand and we forgot. Never fear! Not much happened and now we have more pictures to show you. You’ll notice some whithering of the root going into the chamber here. Two of the four remaining pea...
