This simple trap is the best way to keep fruit flies under control. I can guarantee it works because I’ve used it myself many times and caught hundreds of fruit flies to date.
Fruit Fly Trap
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How Much Food Fits in a 5 Gallon Bucket?
Based on my math, a typical 5 gallon bucket holds 0.71 cubic feet of anything you want. Filled with water, it will hold 42 pounds of the stuff, not counting the weight of the bucket (typically 2 pounds.)
That means for any liquid or semi-liquid food such as wine, beer, peanut butter, honey or cooking oils, just remember 42. Readers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy may recognize this number as the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything.
Once you start talking dry foods the weight really starts to vary.
This is a small list to get you started in planning for how many buckets you will need to store a given weight of certain foods. It also happens to be a great list to get you started in thinking about different foods that can be stored long-term!
Review: The Bucket Sling
We recently got a pair of complimentary Bucket Slings courtesy of the Circus Company which we are doing our best to wear out using them around the farm.
Grocery Bag Trash Can
Tell me if this makes sense. Most people buy a lot of one sort of bag (garbage bags) while simultaneously throwing out lots of another kind of bag (grocery bags.)
Despite our best efforts to take reusable cloth bags and backpacks with us to the grocery store, we still somehow manage to end up with way too many plastic grocery bags than we can possibly use.
If this sounds like a problem you might be familiar with, then this is the solution.
Chicken Posts
To produce eggs, a chicken needs food, water, and a place to nest. All these needs can be met cheaply with 5 gallon buckets. These four articles are consistently the most popular on this site.
Bonus Chicken Pictures
Below are the latest 80 members of our chicken flock. These chickens lead happy, fulfilling lives surrounded by buckets.
