How-To: Grow Oyster Mushrooms
Instructables user uniqueutopia writes: We have been introducing mushroom cultivation as a nutritional supplement and cash crop for Afghanistan’s landless poor
Gardening
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for hacking nature from plant grafting to building gardening tools and sprinklers.
No-Nonsense Beginner Hydroponics
Sean @ Make: Online writes: Our pal Jared Bouck, whose light sculpture project appeared in MAKE Volume 24, has just posted a trifecta of simple, low-cost hydroponics tutorials for beginners like me.
How-To: Heart-Shaped Garden Patch
Elka at CasaSugar shows you how to add a little love around the outside of your home by adding a heart-shaped garden patch. She picked up the heart-shaped frame at the flea market and was immediately inspired. Elka writes: I used Isotoma, or Blue Star Creeper, for the ground cover in the heart, and in […]
Location-specific sundials
ANCR sundials, cast from recycled aluminum, use your exact latitude and longitude to plot the dial’s hour lines. Our dials are calibrated using the laws of astronomy to calibrate the hour markers on the face of your dial. The gnomen (triangle piece on top) must also be precision machined to give you precise time keeping. […]
How-To: Light Bulb Terrariums (video)
The latest Etsy How-Tuesday features Kimberly Sevilla, who shows us how to construct light bulb terrariums in this video produced by Tara Young.
More Gift-Giving Ideas and Lists
Every year we, the editors and authors here on Craftzine, scour the interwebs for cool gift ideas, all with a crafty bent. Certain themes almost always make the gift guide schedule — sewing, crafts for kids, eco-crafting — but there aren’t enough days in the winter season to cover all our vast and varied interests. […]
How-To: Mint Wreath
Mint is a (delicious, fragrant) weed. If you’ve got too much of it in your garden, check out muddysuzi’s tutorial for a mint wreath. I would worry about wilting, but maybe it wouldn’t be a problem on the outside of a chilly door.
