Solutions for Self-Reliance

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Want to save lots of money on your grocery bill? Grow your own food. Take potatoes for example: As I wrote after my 2015 …

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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 …

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DIY

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. …

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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 …

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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, …

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When left to its own devices everything in nature happens automatically, no external input needed. Without man, nature not only carries on, but thrives. …

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As a kid Steve Rees played in caves and learned how the earth could cool. As an adult, he buried two shipping containers and …

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Reflecting back on our first season on the ground establishing Agroforestry, Holistic Planned Grazing, Kitchen Gardens and various other systems from scratch. It has …

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This is the third of a series of articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site using the Keyline Scale of Permanence …

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This is part 2 of a series of 3 articles looking at design considerations for our Cold Climate Permaculture site using the Keyline Scale …