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Excitement Over First Real Garden Wanes
After hailstorm destroys and clean-up continues
So, this morning my husband and I spent quite a while trying to clean up and salvage The Mess Formerly Known As Our Garden.
We’ve spent the better part of ten days dealing with the aftermath of a freak hailstorm that ruined our roof, siding, garage door, and gutters. Our insurance company has cut us a preliminary check and the contractors will come back on Tuesday with their detailed bid in hand. Everyone who’s examined our property so far just offers apologies when they see our pathetic veggies, though.
Anything that can be done to save them now, must be done by us.
At the beginning of the gardening adventure, we agreed that we’d each wear the same crummy outfit and pair of lousy shoes each time we went out to face the elements. (Read: mud.) I told my hubby that I wouldn’t even bother trying to keep these items of apparel clean, since they’d be getting filthy the next day again anyway.
“Just drape your gardening clothes over this basket and you’ll know right where to come tomorrow,” I said.
“Sounds like a plan.”
This morning, we’d been working for 30 minutes before I finally looked up to see him wearing a pale pair of pants I’ve seen him wear to church rather recently. I could not believe how he’d violated our pact to only ruin one set of clothes each! The nerve!
All my flowery, idealistic Mother Earth garden talk from months ago suddenly boiled down to a few terse syllables.
“Those aren’t your garden pants.”
“Oh? And those are your garden jammies?”
With the hailstone ice finally broken by peals of laughter, I imagine we’ll survive the rest of our first year of gardening just fine.
Posted by Katy on 06/20/09 in
Homesteading,
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Jack Spirko is a modern survival guru whose philosophy bears a greater resemblance to the common sense of our forebears than to a plotline from Stephen King's "The Stand."
Posted on 06/02/09 in
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Homesteading,
Survivalism,
World Events
People in cities and towns across the Front Range, and the nation, are embracing aspects of a lifestyle familiar to people who raise livestock and harvest crops in rural America.
Posted on 06/03/09 in
Homesteading,
Gardening,
Urban Farming
The owner of a Golden-based real estate design company sees Agriburbia, a concept he's trademarked, as the coming wave for residential development. Its essential design ingredient---blending a rural land use ethic into an urban setting---is the reason he's so pumped up on the idea.
Posted on 06/03/09 in
Homesteading,
Urban Farming
Knutzen is the author, with his wife, Kelly Coyne, of "The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City," a primer for urbanites who want to take a step or two off the grid.
Posted on 06/03/09 in
Homesteading,
Gardening,
Urban Farming
Formerly squeamish suburbanites are learning what every little kid knows instinctively--dirt and worms are cool.
Posted on 06/03/09 in
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Homesteading,
Gardening
Canning, composting, backyard vegetable cropping, and other 'down home' practices are becoming mainstream in places one would least expect it - big cities. This phenomenon is called Urban Homesteading.
Posted on 07/06/09 in
Homesteading,
Food Preservation
Brock said the City Park region of Denver supports about a dozen similar houses. One of them, he said, routinely turns off the electricity in the house for a day. The people who live there make a campfire by rubbing sticks together, then hang out in the yard beside it.
Posted on 07/28/09 in
Homesteading,
Gardening,
Urban Farming
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Daily web log for prepared individuals living in uncertain times. SurvivalBlog is dedicated to family preparedness, survival, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency. Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has become established as the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics.
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Ongoing story of a family who turns to homesteading, complete with lots of how-to info, humor, and inspiration.
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Want a more self-reliant lifestyle for you and your family. Backwoods Home Magazine can help you achieve it. Every issue is packed with solid, practical, hands-on information on a wide range of self-reliance topics.
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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition
Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. This may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.
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Made from Scratch
Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
In any setting — urban, suburban, or rural — with any level of experience, it’s possible to take small steps toward self-reliance. Windowbox vegetable gardens, a batch of homemade strawberry jam, a handknit sweater, or a small flock of backyard chickens all satisfy the craving to homestead. It’s not about having a rustic cabin on five acres, complete with a pickup truck and a barn full of livestock. For Woginrich, it’s about being more receptive to learning the simple skills most of us have forgotten, and finding joy in the process.
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Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
This is the book for anyone who wants to become more self-reliant, from suburbanites with 1/4 of an acre to country homesteaders with several. The information is easily understood and readily applicable. More than 150 of Storey’s expert authors in gardening, building, animal raising, and homesteading share their specialized knowledge and experience in this ultimate guide to living a more independent, satisfying life. Readers will find step-by-step, illustrated instructions for every aspect of country living.
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The Backyard Homestead
Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done. And when the harvest is in, you’ll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor. From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living
From Publisher’s Weekly: The updated ninth edition of this compendium of food production information is the hefty result of over three decades of intelligence-gathering by Emery, whose initial encyclopedia project was designed to help newbies in the “back to the land” movement of the early 70s learn self-sufficiency. Tasks Emery covers run the gamut from the simple to the complex, and from the common to the strange, and include how to: bake bread, make seed milk, sew a cornhusk bed, dry flowers, prune kiwi vines, culture yogurt, plant beans, keep bees, build a fish pond, artificially inseminate a turkey and help a cow who’s eaten nails. Though it’s definitely not aimed at them, urbanites will find the recipes and resources lists useful, the trivia interesting, and Emery’s personal reflections compelling. Even readers with no plans to raise sheep, sell homemade cheese or plant millet will find this a fascinating cultural document.
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It
This book teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land: harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition of The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.
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