Build an Outhouse (Privy) with plans from 1909
Follow me Besides taking for granted how simply water normally arrives into our homes, sometimes we also fail to consider how easily we
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AuthorLinda Holliday
Hand Water Pumps Making a Comeback
Follow me As recently as 100 years ago, the most important site consideration for homesteaders and villages was whether plenty of good water
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Grow Food All Year Long: Recycled Patio Door Greenhouse Project
Follow me In the 1960s, my father spit out the word “plastic” as if it were poison. To him, anything made of a
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Author Marjory Wildcraft Goes from Hong Kong Highrise to Texas Prepper
Follow me Last summer, when a friend presented me with a set of author Marjory Wildcraft’s gardening DVDs, I thought I already knew
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1881 Cyclopedia Explains Composting Methods and Benefits
Follow me When garden composting caught on in the early 1980s, I thought back to my mother sending us kids to the garden
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Radiated Rainwater in our Future
Follow me Remember how horrifying the thought of acid rain was in the 1980s? On its way to earth, rain picked up sulfur
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Let’s Bring Back Victory Gardens
Follow me As the U.S. government begins scaling back its Food Stamp Program, I wonder how 48 million recipients (almost 1 of every
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