Self-Sufficiency doesn’t have to start out big

I was reading a friend’s blog yesterday and reflected on the idea of self-sufficiency/preparedness and realized that planning for a permaculture garden, being able to build my own furniture and repair things is great; but what happens in the here-and-now if I were to get trapped in an elevator, hurt or needed to survive if [...]

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Decluttering your home and being prepared for things.

So, it’s the middle of August in Ontario and that means hot, humid and gross (made worse as we don’t have air-conditioning). But that’s not the point of this post, the point is that we’re cleaning house and getting rid of stuff we don’t need (either selling in online) or if it’s not viable, [...]

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The shrinking world we are moving into…

I just started reading Jeff Rubin’s book Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller; it got me to thinking, how would I and we deal with less of everything. Less food (imported or otherwise), less stuff (be that computers, coffee, cloths, clutter) and less waist (pun intended). Would we [...]

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Mini-farms for food security and improving your life

Summer’s here and the time is right, for enjoying your home and your garden. So, it’s also time to maybe think about changing the garden and the grass lawn you have to something more useful (not that you have get rid of all your flowers and grass, just convert some of both into a [...]

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To Downshift or not to Downshift (and why)…

The idea of Downshifting has really appealed to me (and now my family) for a couple of years. Why Downshifting though…

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