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Hello, I'm Winnie. My partner and I have been watching the economic crisis for a long while now, and we had decided it was time to start making arrangements in case something happened to necessitate living off grid for a while. So we've been doing a lot of research and I thought I would share some of the better sites we've found along the way ( Read more... )

I was wondering if I could use this solar oven to make these recipes? Or would the oven heat too much or too fast to be able to slow cook anything?

I found these small trees/shrubs on my parents' land, and I'm looking for some help identifying them. I'm almost entirely sure they're autumn-olive, but just in case I want to have a few other people back me up on that before I chow down.

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Pictures of the Garden

Can anyone tell me how to do Notes on Flickr?

(xposted to compost_wackos not_quite_rural and gentlesurvival)

I think one of the best things anyone can do to prepare for extended future disasters like is to plant perennial food crops in their yards and on vacant land. Nut trees are especially good, including chestnuts, hickories, oaks, and for more southern areas, pecans and almonds, as these can provide protein in a fairly easy to store form. Chestnuts ( Read more... )

I posted the below question to three other communities, but have gotten no answers. I'm wondering if anyone here has some suggestions to share ( Read more... )

Hey there, this is my 1st post here.. I thought of you folks last night when I made dinner. Usually I'm all about using fresh foods, and cooking from cans was unusual for me (I was tired & didn't feel like cooking this time) so it made me think of ..well..what if there were circumstances in which I *had* to use all canned stuff for a while? In ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any? I'm in a new city, potentially interested in far more than I actively pursue. What should I do (today, this week, this month?) What do you do, that you wish other people would also do? What do other people do that you wish you did? What does no one seem to do, that you wished everyone did? I'd like to help by doing something ( Read more... )