How To Earn $60 Per Hour Growing Potatoes
Want to save lots of money on your grocery bill? Grow your own food. Take potatoes for example: As I wrote after my 2015 …
Nordic Bees In The Top Bar Hive
Now it’s been two weeks since my Nordic bees moved into the top bar hive. They seem to like it there, and the hive …
How To Turn a Tree into Lumber using a Homemade Alaskan Mill
Here’s David Groth demonstrating a technique for milling a redwood log into slabs of wood with a homemade Alaskan Mill. Very cool and instructional. …
Are You Making This Mistake in Self-Reliance?
When I lived in an apartment in the city I often caught myself romanticizing self-reliance. When I thought about my future self-reliant life I …
Couple Builds Off-Grid Mobile Home with 2 Shipping Containers
Here’s a great story from Kirsten Dirksen about Paul Chambers, who had began building a home out of two shipping containers as a project, …
How the Automatic Earth Can Set Mankind Free
When left to its own devices everything in nature happens automatically, no external input needed. Without man, nature not only carries on, but thrives. …
Earth-Cooled, Underground Shipping Container Home for $30K
As a kid Steve Rees played in caves and learned how the earth could cool. As an adult, he buried two shipping containers and …
5 Ways To Remove A Fish Hook Buried Deeply In Your Skin
Warning: If you don’t like seeing fish hooks going in and out of skin don’t watch this video. This video from Total Fisherman demonstrates …
IKEA Wants To Help You Grow Food Indoors With Hydroponics
This May, IKEA is introducing an indoor hydroponics gardening kit called KRYDDA/VÄXER (rough translation: SPICES/GROWS) that will help you grow lettuce and spices year …
48 Lost Self-Reliance Skills That Kept Our Forefathers Alive
For most of human history daily life has been about surviving to live another day. And over the course of millennia humans got pretty …