An Agroecological Model for the End of the Oil Age
- 21 August 2023Modern civilization is urban down to its rural roots, hates nature, ignores nature, depends on nature, destroys nature, yet expects nature to keep on giving. Now nature is striking back. The result...
Barter: The New (and Really Old) Way to Get What You Need
- 13 August 2023Ever noticed how people-centered community projects seldom lose their utility? They may run out of steam - or people to shepherd them - but they will reappear in a new decade and people will say,...
Rural Revitalization is Becoming More Attractive to Young Graduates
- 16 May 2023When Xu Ziqi graduated from the University of Southern California in the US in 2022, her decision to go back to Luotian, a small county in Central China's Hubei Province, to help her father sell...
Homesteading Opportunites
- 03 March 2023Established Homestead to Share Our small, well-established, self-reliant homestead in the coastal Pacific Northwest can accommodate another couple and, as we retired here nearly 20 years ago, we...
Sustainable Home Swaps 101: How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent
- 11 January 2023Laundry is an unavoidable task. Whether you use a laundry service, do it at home, or take it to the laundromat, clothes get dirty and need to be washed. The typical American family does 300 loads of...
Syrians Try to Overcome Fuel Crisis by Turning to Mother Nature
- 03 January 2023DAMASCUS, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Amid a lingering fuel crisis, and the hardships that have come along as a result of the U.S. sanctions, Syrians had to figure out solutions to make up for the lack of...
Regenerative Farming Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
- 25 November 2022A decades-old anticorporate-farming law in North Dakota makes it illegal for corporations and limited liability companies to purchase farmland in the state. So when Bill Gates received legal...
How Preparing your Own Food Can Restore your Well-being
- 18 November 2022In September of 2010, I was facing a crossroads. My worldly possessions were packed in my car ready to move across the country for a man who had decided he was not ready, nor would he ever be as it...
18 Vegetables You Can Grow in the Winter
- 18 November 2022Colder temperatures are here, but you don’t have to let go of the garden just yet . Plenty of vegetables can grow right through the cold winter months, or overwintered until spring rolls around....
Living Our Best Version of Ourselves
- 18 November 2022Over the past two years, life has amped up the stress levels. Surely nothing like the pain of those worldwide who are starving, living in a war zone, or on an American street, true, but nonetheless...
Ten Steps of the Global Walkout
- 17 November 2022In this video, the presenter of Global Walkout recaps the nine previous steps and introduces the tenth step of the Global Walkout. These are suggestions how to resist digital globalism and tyranny.
Ramping Up Renewables Can’t Provide Enough Heat Energy in Winter
- 24 September 2022We usually don’t think about the wonderful service fossil fuels provide in terms of being a store of heat energy for winter, the time when there is a greater need for heat energy.
It’s Not Working
- 13 July 2022This summer’s weather is perfect now in the Hudson Valley: warm, sunny days for primping the garden and cool nights that invite deep sleep. Zucchini and cukes are coming on, along with currants,...
Reaping the Rewards of Planning
- 06 June 2022As June arrives on the farm, we are clearing out the remaining Ellie’s Eden garden starts, sending them to customers who need to do some last-minute planting. Some folks get a late start due to...
The Victory Garden
- 30 May 2022“If people let government decide which food they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny” -- Thomas Jefferson A...
Homesteading Tips from John Moody
- 10 May 2022I recently had the pleasure of speaking with John Moody, a brilliant author, homesteader, and co-founder of the annual Rogue Food Conference. I wanted to pick John’s brain to extract some of his...
NEW Controlled Food System Is Now In Place And They Will Stop At Nothing To Accelerate Their Control
- 05 May 2022“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” This famous quote by Henry Kissinger is ringing...
Will 'Victory Gardens' Make Comeback As Global Food Crisis Worsens?
- 20 March 2022Spring in the northern hemisphere is two weeks away, and interest in planting gardens could rise as the breadbasket of Europe was choked off by the Russian invasions of Ukraine, jeopardizing global...
A ‘Public Health Catastrophe’: PFAS Chemicals in Home Fertilizer, Mosquito Spray, Drinking Water
- 15 March 2022As you prepare for spring planting, read the labels of everything that will go into your food as it grows. "Natural" is not "organic". "Less expensive" may not be, as this article shows. ~ Ed. Home...
Subsistence Practices & Sustainability
- 21 February 2022We humans will either acknowledge that we are a part of the earth, or we will continue to move toward our own extinction. Consciousness of our participation in the earth’s dynamic life processes...
Should You Move While You Can, Or When You Must?
- 16 January 2022This gives an extreme advantage to those few who move first, long before they must. The financial advantage for first movers is equally extreme. Moving is a difficult decision, so we hesitate. But...
Millions Of Americans Are Scrambling To Become Independent Of The System
- 04 December 2021As It Collapses All Around Them Once upon a time, all of the major institutions in our society were running super smoothly, and most people could rely on the fact that they would always be there...
One Solution to Soaring Food Prices
- 09 November 2021Start Your 2022 Garden Now! There is a great deal of joy and satisfaction in gardening; benefits include saving money, eating healthier, sharing the bounty with others and reducing the derealization...
Just in Time: When the Trucks Stop, America Stops
- 06 November 2021Most Americans take for granted the intricate systems that make it possible for us to engage in seemingly mundane day to day tasks like filling up our gas tanks, loading up our shopping carts at the...
The Winnowing
- 27 August 2021In a Hobbesian struggle of all against all, the advantages of coming into the fight late after the many have worn themselves out can not be overstated. As for myself, I’d prefer to participate in...
Here’s What People Are Running Out of First During the Lockdowns
- 06 August 2021Here in the United States, many of us are in this strange kind of limbo called “lockdown.” Other states call it “social distancing,” and still others call it “sheltering in place.” California, New...
EARLY WARNING: Is Another Lockdown Coming? Here’s How to Get Prepared NOW
- 06 August 2021If the level of fear being incited by the media and the White House are any indication, it may not be long before the United States mandates another lockdown, complete with business closures,...
Villagers & Pillagers: Who Will Survive the Collapse?
- 18 March 2021Unless you live in a state of denial you’re probably like me, troubled about the future. There’s not much left of mine, but my daughter’s generation and their children will have to survive the...
How to Start a Vegetable Garden: A Comprehensive Guide
- 25 February 2021Do you want to start a vegetable garden but unsure about where to start or overwhelmed with what you need to think about before you even begin? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Starting a garden from...
Growing Vegetables Is Back in Style: Here’s How to Start Planning Your Garden
- 30 January 2021Whether you celebrate St. Bridget’s Day, Candlemas, Imbolc, or Groundhog Day, February 2 is coming up. For those of us active in gardening and raising animals in the Northern hemisphere, this means...
Homesteading Family Living Off-Grid in a Spectacular Earthship
- 25 November 2018"This inspiring off-grid homesteading family lives in a renovated stone earthship. They grow their own food, collect rainwater, use solar power, have composting toilets, and they have a pond that...
Millennials Are Homesteading, Buying Affordable Homes, Building Community
- 14 April 2017While it’s certainly good sport to mock “snowflakes,” not all Millennials are snowflakes. Many are homesteading, buying affordable homes and building communities that get stuff done. I discuss these...