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How to Replace Irrigation With Permaculture

How to Replace Irrigation With Permaculture

Blog, Organic Gardening, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   Save water, time and money in the garden! Learn how to replace irrigation with permaculture design and let nature do the work for you! This is a guest post by...
How to Use a Rocket Mass Heater to Cook & Heat Off-Grid

How to Use a Rocket Mass Heater to Cook & Heat Off-Grid

Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   Learn how to heat and cook off-grid with a rocket mass heater, and why this is an even more energy-efficient solution than a traditional wood stove! This is a...
My Favourite Things – 2022 Edition (aka. The Modern Homesteader’s Christmas Wish List)

My Favourite Things – 2022 Edition (aka. The Modern Homesteader’s Christmas Wish List)

Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   Every year around this time, I compile a list of my favourite things: Things that I love, use or covet for my own homestead, and things that I know other modern...
11 Frugal Ways to Use Kitchen Scraps

11 Frugal Ways to Use Kitchen Scraps

DIY Home & Body, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

 Save money, reduce food waste and and improve everything from your soil to your gut health with this list of 11 frugal ways to use kitchen scraps in your home and garden. *** We’re such a wasteful society, especially here in the west. The mounds of waste...
What does it really mean to be self-reliant?

What does it really mean to be self-reliant?

Dreams & Reflections, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it really means to be “self-reliant.”  We talk a lot about self-reliance (or self-sufficiency) in the homesteading community, and outwardly it may seem as if the goal of “achieving” self-reliance is what ultimately...
How to Make Your Own Indoor Grow Light Stand

How to Make Your Own Indoor Grow Light Stand

Organic Gardening, Self-Sufficiency & Simple Living

* This article contains affiliate links. For more information, please read my Affiliate Disclosure.   If you grow plants from seed (or if you want to), you’re likely going to want to start a few of them indoors. And if you start your seeds indoors,...
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