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Things I Learned from Grandma Part II

By |2021-09-02T17:20:01-07:00February 26th, 2021|Categories: Food, Life Hacks - Food, Storage|

Long-Lasting Recipes from Grandma Now my Grandma Collins was a prolific cook. And a few of those recipes are found here. But I have also gathered other recipes from the past that other grandmas have passed along. They are not fancy. But, most of them also don’t require hard to obtain and expensive ingredients either. [...]

How To Be Resilient and Then Teach It To Others – Part III

By |2021-09-02T17:20:01-07:00February 25th, 2021|Categories: Self Reliance|

Connections, Connections, Who's Got the Connections? The next step beyond the Confidence Factor and the Competence threshold there is the Connection. Now how I mean Connection comes in three parts. A) Connection to the Subject Matter B) Connection to the Actual Practice and C) Connection to others, living and with those who came before us. [...]

Things I Learned from Grandma Part I

By |2021-09-02T17:20:01-07:00February 24th, 2021|Categories: Life Hacks - Food, Preserve, Self Reliance, Storage|

I can still remember my grandma and her cooking from decades ago, the recipes that were handed down to her from her mom and grandmas the links of us all through the ages of time can be the way we actually feed ourselves. It is important for us to bring this knowledge to those that [...]

Where You Live – Does It Matter?

By |2021-09-02T17:20:01-07:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: Life Hacks - Survival, Planning, Self Reliance|

Generally speaking, people are happy with where they are living. Or happy enough, as it might be. When it comes to being self-sufficient and having the right planning and production in place that may change their desired landscape. No matter where you are presently residing there are positives and negatives to each Urban, Sub-Urban, and [...]

Backyard farming moves up in the pecking order

By |2021-09-02T17:20:02-07:00February 9th, 2021|Categories: In The News|

The Original Article can be found here With strains on global food supply and distribution more people are trying their hand at raising their own. PARIS — The ripple effects of COVID-19 keep rolling. As the pandemic has affected food distribution and shut down some of the nation’s largest processors, consumers are responding by going [...]

Making It Through Economic Turmoil

By |2021-09-02T17:20:02-07:00February 8th, 2021|Categories: Self Reliance|

It has been over a decade when the financial world ended as we knew it. The tried and true guidelines for financial health were discarded in 2008 and since that time we have been rolling along in uncharted territory. Those who have tried to keep the status quo or don't understand what's constantly changing they [...]

Live the Life of Awesome

By |2021-09-02T17:20:02-07:00February 4th, 2021|Categories: Self Reliance|

I was recently talking with the Missus (Mrs) and was snowballing a few ways that, despite what may be happening around us, how we could live the life we wanted... An Awesome Life. Not of affluence necessarily, nice but not essential; of pleasure because how many times can you ride a rollercoaster? But a truly [...]

Do I Need a Biofilter?

By |2021-09-02T17:20:02-07:00February 3rd, 2021|Categories: Aquaponics|Tags: |

The word aquaponics may sound very technical, but the truth is that aquaponics and biofilters actually mimic the natural processes that happen in the wild. Nature does not allow anything to go to waste. Everything is recycled and reused. For example, animal excreta become a source of food for plants, and the plants in turn provide [...]

Understanding the Nitrogen Factor

By |2021-09-02T17:20:02-07:00February 1st, 2021|Categories: Aquaponics, Hydroponics|Tags: |

Setting up an Aquaponics system in your backyard garden is the best way to construct an optimally functioning closed ecosystem utilizing the nitrogen cycle that not only benefits plant growth but also supplements the system fish. In basic terms, the practice of Aquaponics involves merging the practices of hydroponics and aquaculture, such that the pond and the garden can [...]

The Penultimate Sub-Urbian Farmer

By |2021-09-02T17:20:02-07:00January 27th, 2021|Categories: Aquaponics, Permaculture, Seed, Systems|

Countless Americans desire to be more independent with their food, which is great for the environment. One study found that 35% of Americans grow their own food. This figure has increased 65% in the past decade. This is good for the environment. US Green Technology has published an article on some of the environmental benefits of [...]

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