The two questions everyone asks before they start a worm bin are “will it smell” and “will it get out of hand.” The honest answer to both is no, provided you use the right worms and don’t overfeed them. A worm bin, roughly the footprint of two sheets of A4 side by side and barely…
Most composting advice assumes you have a backyard. A heap in the corner, a big tumbler, a patch of garden to bury things in. If you live in an apartment, that content isn’t written for you, and you know it by the second paragraph. But apartment composting is genuinely workable. I’ve seen it done in…
Most people who find this article are renting. Or living in an apartment. Or in a city. And they’ve looked at the word “homesteading” and assumed it doesn’t apply to them — that it’s for people with land, a barn, and somewhere to keep chickens. That’s the wrong assumption, and this guide is here to…