June 2012 - ToDoListHome LLC

Episode-105- Dehydrate Food For Savings, Storage And Use

Tony Teolis June 30, 2012 0 Comments

Just some of the food you can dehydrate with the Nesco American Harvest Snack Master Dehydrator. Currently there are more herbs than can be stored in the refrigerator and used before spoiling. There's a rich bounty of basil, chives, cilantro, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage and thyme. All are growing faster that we can use them. A couple of years ago I got turned on to...

Episode-104- Physics Of The Future – Book Review

Tony Teolis June 22, 2012 0 Comments

What I learned from Physics Of The Future The 4 stages of technology that major innovations go through as they become part of what further defines humanity. The day when any data anywhere anytime is near. Healthcare for longer and better living will be available to every human, in your own home. Energy to drive humanity will be something that our descendents will think of us as insane for...

Episode-103- Lawn Care For Dead Patch With Hugelkultur Swales

Tony Teolis June 20, 2012 0 Comments

This is how I repaired a long term dead patch of lawn with swales built hugelkulutr style. New Growth in just 3 weeks! This used to be an unsightly ugly dead patch of nothing. Everything green now used to be just plain old dead dirt. The right soil mix, the right seeds, hugelkultur and the right amount of water catch and store and behold. Life where I couldn't green anything for three years....

Episode-102- Make Gardens With Flowers, Fruit, Vegetables And Honey Bees

Tony Teolis June 18, 2012 0 Comments

Tour our gardens with today’s video and see for yourself what is possible with planning, hard work, hugelkultur, seeds from SouthernExposure.com and plants from NourseFarms.com. Of course special credit goes to the gardens hardest workers. The Russian honey bees from Kellysbees.com. enjoy and come back for more. The video for today is one I took of the 18 plus gardens that I have created...

Episode-101- Top Ten Websites For Making A Better Life Part 2

Tony Teolis June 13, 2012 0 Comments

Episode-100- Ten Best Websites For Making a Better Life – Part 1 (10-6) #5. Permies.com managed by Paul Wheaton of Missoula, Montana and is now the largest permaculture site on the internet! Permies.com is great because it’s changed my property and as a result it has changed me. My backyard has been taken over by hugelkultur or the making of gardens out of huge logs of wood covered...

Episode-100- Ten Best Websites For Making a Better Life Part 1

Tony Teolis June 11, 2012 0 Comments

For this episode 100 I wanted to do something special and I couldn’t think of any better way than to recognize the websites that have helped me create ToDoListHome.com because they have influenced me on how to live a better life. #10 TED.com TED is a nonprofit devoted to building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and...

Episode-99- Inspect Honey Bee Hive A 5-12-12

Tony Teolis June 6, 2012 0 Comments

The video for this episode depicts an inspection I did last month of Hive-A which was installed in April 2011. This hive has been doing well and is full of bees. So full in fact that I don't see any evidence of a swarm occurrence. I checkerboard the hive in March 2012 and I think that played a big part in preventing the swarm urge from becoming reality. As noted in Episode-94 I don't think...

Episode-98- Grow Strawberries And Make Strawberry Jam

Tony Teolis June 4, 2012 0 Comments

Since it is spring /early summer in northern Virginia a lot of the episodes have been of the permaculture gardening flavor but I assure you that it is all for making a better life. In this kind of weather I want to be outside as much as possible. During the days Monday to Friday I am busy paving the road for the progress of science and not outdoors until the evening. When I am...