The easiest way to grow mushrooms at home is with a five gallon bucket full of coffee grounds, and some Oyster Mushroom spawn. The guide below will get you started growing your very own Oyster mushrooms.
Growing your own Oyster mushrooms
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5 Gallon Bucket
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Creating sea salt from ocean water is an ancient practice almost completely lost to us today. In the foodie bible The 100-Mile Diet, the very last food the authors found locally after a year of eating regionally, was a bag of pure sea salt from the Pacific Northwest oceans.
If like most humans you live close to one of the planet’s seven seas, you can participate in this ancient craft. It starts off with a 5 gallon bucket.
Hunter’s Bucket Checklist – 23 items you must take with you
If you’re a hunter, you already know that a 5 gallon bucket is an essential piece of equipment.
Just look at all these advantages a bucket has over inferior backpacks, a wheelbarrow, or a pack mule.
- Waterproof
- Sturdy
- It’s a seat
- and best of all, it’s a bucket
Sub Irrigated Planter
There’s two things I like about sub irrigated planters. One, you never have to water them. And two, you never have to water them.
They work by wicking water up, from a big reservoir underneath. And you can build one from 2 buckets and a yogurt container. Here’s how
Air Conditioner
This five gallon cooling system developed by DesertSun02 on YouTube blows air over a frozen 1 gallon milk jug to create 5 hours of surprisingly cold air. Unlike the swamp cooler we published last summer, this invention will work great even in a humid climate – and it’s a much simpler design.