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The following article from Backwoods Home Magazine has inspired a contest over this next week. We are looking for pictures of your cast iron cookware. Please post your pictures to the Self-Reliance Expo Facebook Fanpage. The winner will receive a FREE year subscription to Backwoods Home Magazine. The article is available online and in the print [...]  The following clips are from Christropher Nyerges‘ appearance on National Geographic’s “Doomsday Preppers” show. He’s a smart guy who is also extremely resourceful…he should be, considering he’s living in Los Angeles, California! Christopher also attended the Self-Reliance Expo in Salt Lake City, Utah last fall, promoting his School of Self-Reliance. Meet Christopher Nyerges Video [...] With the Dallas Texas’ Self-Reliance Expo almost 1 week away, it’s time you know that our good friends from Pantry Paratus™ will be hosting a FREE Give-Away of a Wondermill Electric Grain Mill. The drawing will take place on Saturday, February 11 at their booth #100-101. Wilson & Chaya will both be conducting educational [...] January/February 2012 This article was featured recently by our friends at BackWoodsHome.com. This is just one of the reasons I enjoy their magazine. It provides insight into Self-Reliant living, educational articles, along with humor & classifieds too! Author: Dietmar Berg Here’s a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount [...] Join Colorado Ron & Bubba Davinci on their show tonight 8 pm Central on the Preparedness Radio Network. (Click the image for the link or click HERE.) This week 1/27/2012, on Self-Reliance Expozed, the official Self-Reliance Expo radio show, your hosts Colorado Ron and Bubba DaVinci will be introducing themselves and discussing what the [...] I, for one, am super-excited to pick up Dr. Bones & Nurse Amy’s new book: Check out the trailer for the new book: We look forward to reviewing this book & posting that review here…Stay Tuned!
-David SafeWater [...] With the Dallas’ Self-Reliance Expo right around the corner February 10-11, we want to give individuals and families the opportunities to win FREE tickets to the Self-Reliance Expo! (It’s actually gonna happen in Mesquite, just east of Dallas). What we are looking for: Entertaining videos which highlight/demonstrate your most innovative Self-Reliance Creations, Contraptions, [...] Our friends Wilson & Chaya at PantryParatus.com wrote a great article, and we are featuring it here with their permission. Enjoy! Convenience is pretty expensive. The just-in-time logistics system has changed our shopping experience in the Industrialized world. If you pick up the last bottle of ketchup on the shelf, there is no such thing [...] Texas Shelf Reliance® For those of you out there who enjoy the free samples given out at Costco, Farmer’s Markets, or In-Home Presentations, you’re in for a treat at the upcoming Self-Reliance Expo just outside of Mesquite, Texas in three weeks. A team of select Independent Consultants from Shelf-Reliance® & Thrive™ Foods will be there, [...] The following post is re-published with permission from our friends Dr. Bones & Nurse Amy at DoomandBloom.net on December 6, 2011. Hey Preppers, We’re heading into winter, and the inability to stay dry in cold weather can cause hypothermia in no time at all. If you remember the movie “Titanic”, you saw hundreds [...] Lehman’s-”the world’s purveyor of historical non-electric merchandise technology”- is hosting a drawing for a recipe which utilizes cast iron cookware in one of four possible categories: Main Dish Dessert Bread Breakfast I want to point out that this is a drawing and not a contest to select a preferred recipe. All submissions/entries must be received [...] 
This is a great & simple video on planting sugarcane stalk from an experienced farmer. These are the kinds of basic skills that we need to preserve in order to foster greater self-reliance for generations to come. [...] photo credit: SiGNa Chemistry Well, many of us are into our technology as well as our basic self-reliance skills…and we know that CES is still going on right now in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s happening at the Las Vegas Convention Center/The Venetian through Friday, January 13. With so many exciting consumer gadgets, and James [...] The following post quotes an original article written by Emily Guy Birken at CashMoneyLife.com. I am posting my thoughts on her points in that article titled Mistakes Frugal People Make. Emily’s first example of attempted frugality does a great job at reminding us that many times cheaper is more expensive! After my son was born, [...] Cinnamon serves uses beyond bread pudding, french toast, and tea. In fact, Pliny the Elder referenced an unknown native people’s guarding of a pricey cinnamon by “a terrible kind of bats,” circa 77 AD.1 Both bark and flower have their practical application. Following are some important facts about cinnamon which should prove useful to you. [...] 
Kate Ferry is a beekeeper in Custer, Washington. Her blog is SacredBee.net and offers great information about beekeeping, as well as many matters focusing on self-reliance. She writes: Are you fascinated by the honeybee? Do you have access to a bit of land? Anything over about 20 feet by 20 feet will do just fine. [...] The following article is a featured post by Donovan Baldwin. He covers the essential principle of frugality, a practice ALL homesteaders cherish! Enjoy: One of the things that takes some getting used to, especially as a senior citizen on a fixed income, is living on that fixed income. credit: moneysense.gov.sg Even if you have [...] One of the reasons I have a such a great time traveling to Utah is because of the almost endless amount of creative products & services having to do with Self-Reliance, Homesteading, Emergency Preparedness, and just plain old frugal living. I recently met two brothers who have created the coolest functional and neatest looking site [...] Colorado Aquaponics gives us a tour before the Self Reliance Expo [...] Below is a great presentation given by David Christopher at the Self Reliance Expo. David’s father is the one who started The School of Natural Healing. He offers some great advice about how to heal yourself naturally where there is no medicine. She has great points. Not exactly how I would deliver the message, but an important message non the less. Tuberculosis, Hep A, Cholera, Typhoid, and All Upper Respiratory Infections. What are their symptoms and How do you treat them? Today we discuss these things. [...] This looks soo good! www.thecasualgardener.com – – Shawna Coronado andChef Ryan Hutmacher, “The Centered Chef”, prepare a healthy meal for four with a Moroccan Chicken and Pasta Salad Dinner for $10 or less. Each meal in the Living Lean & Green cooking series is prepared utilizing fresh, sustainably grown, organic vegetables from Shawna’s front [...] Hay is obviously used for several things, but to clean up our oil spill? I never thought of it as a way to accomplish this, but several farmers have. You can not get much greener of a clean-up than this. It works by distributing the hay across the oil spill. The oil then sticks to the hay. The great part is hay floats. So once the oil sticks to it all you need to do is pick it up. [...] We finally got our Square Foot Garden setup for this year. Our boxes are 4 foot wide by 6 foot long. I wanted to go 8ft, but the 6ft long 1×6 boards were a lot cheaper. We built 6 of these boxes. Plus we still have a regular garden area tilled and ready. This area will contain the vine type foods such as watermelons, squashes, etc. [...] This egg shell starter is a very cool idea. My wife saw this in some magazine. You start them indoors. All you have to do is collect egg shells for a while, with six kids it didn’t take too long. [...] |
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