Building Organic Raised Bed Gardens (using a plasma cutter!)

I fire up the plasma cutter to show you how to build organic gardens using discarded oil drums that used to hold furnace heating oil.

Building raised bed gardens is pretty simple. Most people usually just use wood, and stack up 10 or so inches above grade, but I found a better way to heat up the soil temperature and build them much bigger, quicker, and more effectively; old oil drums!

Raised bed gardens make gardening easy by lifting the planting surface up to your hip height, which allows for easy removal of weeds. Just grab what you want to eat and pull what you don’t. Best, you can just add more nutrients next year and keep your garden going.

I usually get 1 or 2 free oil drums every year from various home owners looking to upgrade to gas furnaces. Rather than letting the oil drums go to the landfill, I just re-purpose them.

“Self-Reliance” is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson’s recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his own instincts and ideas. This channel will approach self reliance from a modern perspective. and will focus on various build projects using modern amenities, and tools to build a completely self reliant lifestyle.