Backyard projects from what nobody wanted
Old barrels, pallets, buckets and windows become root cellars, rain barrels and no-bend garden beds. Simple things you can build on a small lot.
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Projects
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The trash can root cellar
Store carrots, beets and potatoes all winter without a fridge, a basement or power.
Where these ideas come from
Most of them are old methods, used long before refrigerators and garden centres. The one book we keep coming back to is The Self-Sufficient Backyard by Ron and Johanna Melchiore, who have lived off the grid since the late 1970s.
What is actually in that bookVisuals in our videos are AI-generated illustrations of the ideas, not footage of a real yard. Some links on this site are affiliate links — see disclosure.