Another Use for Skateboards

August 31, 2009 by  
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Recently I’ve found a new use for skateboards.  Not only are they great for spider hideaways and dust collecting in the garage but also very useful for moving heavy objects!

Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Well, here I’m …

Simple gluten & dairy free orange cake

August 24, 2009 by  
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Orange cake is a special treat, especially in winter when cakes with apples and pears dominate.  Many recipes involve boiling the orange for an hour or so – the length of the process always puts me off.

This flourless orange …

Pet chickens: Keeping chickens in the city

August 17, 2009 by  
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Let me introduce our gorgeous city chickens: Princess, Singapore and Sunflower.  Singapore is the black one, still occasionally called “he” although reliably proving the opposite every morning.  Sunflower (on the left) has brown feathers, lays biggest eggs and is first …

Welcome to our new look…

August 10, 2009 by  
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If you have visited Sustainable Eco before, you might notice our exciting new look.  We’ll be testing, changing and tweaking our site in the coming days.  Stay tuned: there is a queue of interesting posts waiting impatiently to be published …