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Garden
What about a wormery?
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) recently undertook a study which shows UK households throw away about a third of the food they buy. Roughly half of the 6.7 million tonnes of food thrown in the bin each year is edible and ...
Stories - Recycling
My worm diary
Make it and Mend it member Seamus from Vermont USA sent us this piece about his experience raising Red Wiggler worms in a wormery - he wants to dispel any fears that keeping a wormery inside the house causes smells. Here's his ...
fashion
Step away from that fitting room!
Guest writer, Gabrielle Utton, has set set herself a big personal challenge: no new clothes for one year. Here she tells us why... No new clothes for a year? What’s your reaction to that sentence? Is it: no problem, just think ...
Interiors
Everything you want to know about making cushions
The most searched for items on our site relate to making cushion covers, so we thought we'd pull it all together for you here in a simple summary so you can find the right page, whatever your cushion-making needs. Making designer ...
Garden
Plant pots from toilet rolls
How to make pots for garden seedlings using toilet roll tubes or rolled up newspapers
Interiors
How to make envelope cushions from recycled fabric
An easy project for a sewing beginner to start with and a good idea for brightening up the house during this drab period till spring appears. These cushion covers are so easy to make that my 12 year old daughter made them - her first, ...
Stories - Role models
Car and chips – is old oil the new fuel?
Ed Laver, 21, has taken the phrase ‘chips with everything’ to a new level and converted his car to run on used cooking oil, which he collects from local fish and chip shops. Now he plans to market his conversion kits commercially. ...
Stories - Role models
Doreen – the true spirit of Make it and Mend it
Santa's workshop probably looks a little like Doreen Savage's house. Her home may be situated in Brighton on the English South coast rather than in the North Pole, but every corner is filled with clever gift ideas that have been lovingly ...
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