Grow Your Own Chicken Treats Who knew those little fluff balls could cost an arm and a leg to feed when they grew up?! With so many new chicken keepers bringing home their first flock there are bound to be questions about how to save money by raising some feed…
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How to Grow Your Own Garden Stakes
How to Save Money on Homegrown Garden Stakes Are you tired of buying bamboo stakes, metal posts, and other supports for your garden? Whether you wish to put up a trellis, fencing for keeping rabbits out, or keep your tomato cages from toppling over, here are some ways to save…
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How to Find Free Food by Urban Foraging
How to Start Urban Foraging If you live in an urban area, you might feel kind of left out of the whole self-reliance movement. How much can you possibly do to increase your self-sufficiency in a city? Actually, there are quite a few things to try! I’ve grown little plots…
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How to Save Money with an Easy Seed Starting Station
Set Up an Easy Seed Starting Station I recently spent an afternoon drooling over some expensive seed starting stations in a popular gardening catalog. The model I liked featured 3 shelves and cost about $800. It’s hard to save money starting your seedlings with that kind of expense. If you’ve…
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How to Grow Food in Small Spaces
How to Grow Food in Small Spaces Do you want to grow more of your own food? Is your space limited? Maybe you’d like to take control over what chemicals are used to grow the vegetables, herbs, and fruits that you eat or you wish to know how your meat…
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Mary’s Heirloom Seeds Interview
Interview with Mary from Mary's Heirloom Seeds, a small business in the USA that uses environmentally friendly practices.
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How to Make a Survival Seed Bank
How to create a survival seed ban and the, best storage methods, how to test germination rates, best and worst seeds for storage, and more!
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The Best Way to Harvest and Store Root Crops
Knowing how to harvest and store root crops over the winter is a great way to save money, provide healthy food for your family, and increase your self-reliance!
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105 Best Ways to Be More Self Reliant
105 of the Best Ways to Be More Self Reliant right where you are! You don't need a large homestead to increase your self-reliance!
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How to Start a Community Garden
Learn how to start a community garden in your area! Grow healthy food even if you don't have a garden space at home. Great for urban homesteaders!
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How to Choose the Best Broody Hens for a Self Reliant Flock
Keep a broody hen or 2 to hatch and raise their own chicks! Here are the best broody hen breeds so she can hatch out eggs for you!
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How to Make Money from Your Homestead – 101 Ways to Earn an Income!
How to Make Money from Your Homestead - Over 100 ideas to earn extra income from your homestead or small farm. Supplement or replace your paycheck!
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Veggies from My ‘Root Cellar’
Vegetables from my 'root cellar' help our family be more self reliant. I'd like to build a real root cellar to be even more self reliant!
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Planning For a Self-Sufficient Thanksgiving
Prepare a Self-Sufficient Thanksgiving Dinner It might be difficult to raise everything you need to serve a completely self-sufficient Thanksgiving dinner. However, what you can’t raise on your own, you may be able to purchase from a local farm or cook most of your holiday meal from scratch. Some of these suggestions need…
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Should You Invest in a Wind Turbine?
Are Residential Turbines Worthwhile? With an increasing interest in self sufficiency, renewable energy, and off grid living, many people are investing in small residential wind turbines. But are they worth the cost? Here is an in depth look at the energy output you can expect from a small wind turbine……
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The Self-Sufficient Home ~ a Book Review
The Self-Sufficient Home By Nancy Hoffman Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book to review. All opinions shared are my own. This book provides an overview of the many aspects of living a more self-sufficient lifestyle. The author gives her readers the basics of a broad spectrum of…