Foraging for Free Chicken Feed Chickens love to forage for their own greens, insects, and worms but not everyone can allow their flock out to free-range. If you are short on pasture for your hens or the threat of predators is too great, you can gather food for them! Foraging…
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The Family Garden Plan Will Help You Grow!
The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year's Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food by Melissa K. Norris will help you plan an abundant garden!
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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 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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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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Renewable Energy for Self-Sufficiency
by Dr. Tom Lombardo Renewable Energy for Self-Sufficiency Ask a few homeowners about renewable energy and they’ll probably talk about solar panels and rooftop wind turbines. They might even use the term “off-grid.” In reality, there are many more possibilities, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s start with…