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Several weeks have passed since I made my first batches of soaps.  They have cured now and we have been using them and given them as well-received gifts.  I have learned several things that I thought I would share with others who are interested in getting started. To begin with, I must confess that I […]

We are pleased to announce that we are expecting another blessing around Father’s Day!  So, in honor of the upcoming event, I thought this might be a good time to give a run-down of the various choices available these days in cloth diapers. The “Old-Fashioned Kind” If you were cloth diapered as a baby, most […]

As the long cold days of winter set in, if you are like me, you are perusing seed catalogs and looking longingly at the beautiful fruits and vegetables contained within the pages.  Grocery store tomatoes are hard, mealy, tasteless things and the fruits have been imported from somewhere south of the border if not from […]

Happy 2012! We hope that you had a good Christmas and a wonderful and safe New Year. As you may have noticed, we took some time off between the two holidays but we’re back at it now that the new year is upon us. We thought it might be a fun way to kick off […]

I think a lot about ways that I can make steps to preparedness look “normal” and “doable” for the doubters in my life.  Also, I have been thinking about alternatives to MREs.  Those two things collided in my mind when I saw a display of cookbooks in an Amish store.  They all featured Meals in […]

I have been tearing through books lately and I can’t get enough survivalist fiction these days.  About a week ago, I finished another one that I thought our blog readers may enjoy. Apocalypse Law is set in north Florida.  It is winter and this is the third severe one in a row with snow regularly […]

As Joe has noted several times in previous posts, the human body does not last long without water.  So much of our body is composed of it and it facilitates so many biological processes that we must have a pretty steady and generous supply of it for good health. Storing and Collecting Water Storing a […]

We have been reading and planning and saving for a root cellar for years now.  This has been an important part of our long-range plan for food security.  About a week ago, we finally broke ground on it and we are really looking forward to its completion.  (The kids are most excited about the huge […]

I have dozens of reasons that I think are quite compelling for why people ought to be planning ahead and providing for themselves.  Every day, news from the Eurozone sounds worse and that will probably all trickle this way before long.  The economy here is no picnic already and even the initial happy reports of […]

 A few days ago, I mentioned a gift suggestion for anyone on your list who is interested in learning about edible and medicinal plants.  I want to tell you more about a good game that will help familiarize the players with many of those plants. HerbMentor.com is part of LearningHerbs.com, a great site to find […]