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Homemade Boiled Cider (Apple Cider Syrup)

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Birch Polypore: Identification & Uses

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Foraging Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)

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Nannyberries hanging on the bushes in December in Vermont.

How to Make Comfrey Salve (and Why You Should!)

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My own homemade comfrey salve for back pain.

Primitive Skills

How to Process Soil into Clay for Pottery

Extracting Salt From Plants for Survival

Off-Grid Living

Raising Dairy Goats Off the Grid

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Maintaining Off Grid Systems in Winter

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Permaculture

Growing Strawberries from Seed

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30+ Perennial Vegetables We Grow on our Permaculture Homestead

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Perennial Vegetables Clockwise from Top Left ~ Sunchokes, Linden Buds, Milkweed and Dock.

Canning & Preserving

How to Make Fromage Blanc (Cultured Soft Cheese)

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How to Make Sauerkraut in a Crock

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How to Make Homemade Sauerkraut in a Crock

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40+ Practical Uses for Spent Coffee Grounds

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How to Grow Litchi Tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium)

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90+ Free Seed Catalogs (& Nursery Catalogs Too!)

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Featured Posts

How to Make Sauerkraut

Homemade Boiled Cider (Apple Cider Syrup)

Birch Polypore: Identification & Uses

How to Grow Microgreens

Foraging

Foraging Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)

Shagbark Hickory Syrup

Herbalism

Homemade Elderberry Syrup

How to Make Comfrey Salve (and Why You Should!)

Primitive Skills

How to Process Soil into Clay for Pottery

Extracting Salt From Plants for Survival

Off-Grid Living

Raising Dairy Goats Off the Grid

Maintaining Off Grid Systems in Winter

Permaculture

Growing Strawberries from Seed

30+ Perennial Vegetables We Grow on our Permaculture Homestead

Canning & Preserving

How to Make Fromage Blanc (Cultured Soft Cheese)

How to Make Sauerkraut in a Crock

Recent Posts

40+ Practical Uses for Spent Coffee Grounds

How to Grow Litchi Tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium)

Cherry Wine

90+ Free Seed Catalogs (& Nursery Catalogs Too!)

How to Make Mead (Honey Wine)

Pear Jelly

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