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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 [...]  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, [...] Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Laurie Gawronski of G & R Foods, Incorporated. Laurie heads the sales of Ballantyne Butter and Bega canned cheddar cheese. Although G & R is based in Wisconsin, they are the largest domestic wholesaler of New Zealand’s Ballantyne butter brand and the nation’s exclusive importer of Australia’s [...] January/February 2012 Issue Announcing: Have you wanted to add Backwoods Home Magazine (BHM) to your Red Shed of Self-Reliance Tools? Have you read one of the great educational articles available in their publication? Well, now is your chance to win a FREE 1-year subscription to the PRINT edition of BHM! BHM has partnered with [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Open to the public! Here is your chance to win a Country Living Grain Mill! Only at the Self Reliance Expo April 8-9, 2011 National Western Complex Denver CO View a demo below:
Strong Box StorageWith Spring right around the corner, I was starting to get a bit of cabin fever. Since we recently moved into our home, there was still some organizing that needed done. I needed to get my shop more organized so that Ill be ready for upcoming Spring projects. [...] GrainMaker is based out of Montana and builds one of the best quality grain mills that I have ever had the privileged to use. Their mill is designed to make quick work of grinding grains of all types. [...] I was back in Utah last week and had a chance to finally visit an Emergency Essentials store. It was great! I look through their catalog every time it comes in the mail, but to actually visit the store was a real treat. They had everything that was in their catalog, but it was nice [...] Knife: Urban Survival Knife Designer: Morgan Taylor Maker: Taylor Brands LLC www.taylorbrandsllc.com —————————————- Knife Design: Survival Blade Pattern: Sawback Drop Point Grind: Flat —————————————- Blade Material: 440C Rockwell Hardness: 57-58 Blade Length: 8″ (20.32 cm) Blade Thickness: .196″ (5 mm) —————————————- Liners: None Bolster Material: None Handle Material: G-10 Handle Length: 5 3/4″ (14.60 [...] I thought this was a nifty product for urban homesteaders. The Eglu is an easy to setup chicken coop that can house 4 medium sized chickens or 6 bantams. The eglu features Twin wall insulation, draft free ventilation, perching bars, a nesting box, and plenty of trays that make it easy to clean and easy to collect eggs. Choose from 5 colors of 100% recycled plastic. [...] 10 Brilliant, Boxy and Sustainable Shipping Container Homes [...] What’s the Best Tape? Abusive Lab Test Duct tape’s versatility is almost a cliché—we’ve seen it used for everything from wallet construction to hull repair to, well, patching ducts. But can it beat newfangled multiuse tapes? We pit the standby against three challengers, testing each tape’s tensile strength, the tenacity of its adhesive and how it worked after a week underwater. [...] Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair [...] Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. [...] Pocket-Sized Fishing Rod and Reel – More DIY How To Projects Since our new homestead is in the famed tornado alley, the first piece of gear we bought was a Midland emergency radio. The specific radio we chose was a Midland WR-100c. Once we had our county and surrounding counties programmed into it , it just sits there quietly monitoring for any emergency broadcasts. Once it [...] |
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