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Tips on Maintaining & Diagnosing Small Engines
Don’t you hate it when you grab your chainsaw and head for your woodlot, and once you're there, the saw won’t start? Or you need your generator to produce electricity…
Depression Era Gardening; What We Can Learn
No one wants to be the harbinger of bad news and no one wants to constantly hear a pessimist predict dire things for the future. However, if history repeats itself,…
Home Remedies from a Simpler Time
Home remedies have been passed down from generation to generation, but in the modern age with the reduction of extended family and increased presence of commercial remedies and industrialized medical…
Grow Open-Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening
In the past I’ve grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this, I was able to grow things like sweet corn…
Gathering Low Cost Firewood
Fireplaces and wood stoves are more efficient with each new decade. Heatilators, inserts, blowers, and a host of heating bells and whistles have rekindled the desirability of wood heat. Today,…
The Dairy Goat — A Gallon of Milk a Day
Looking for a way to combine sufficiency with efficiency? The most efficient animal on the place is the goat. It is scoffed at by skeptics, eyed by the curious, and…
Create Your Own Emergency Water Supply
any of us who are otherwise well prepared for weather related emergencies, power outages, or other disasters are put to scratching our heads when we try to figure out a…
Delicious Recipes For Your Insides & Outsides
Check out these recipes for edibles and useful things at Reign of Tara. My favorites include the DIY Cleaning Products Recipes and Spice Tea. That reminds me, I really need to get…