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Practical Self Reliance

Your Practical Guide To Self Reliant Living

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70+ Venison Recipes

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Venison Recipes

Homemade Elderberry Syrup

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Homemade Elderberry Syrup

50+ Practical Homemade Holiday Gifts for the Self Reliant

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Homemade Gift Guide

Kiwi Jam

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canning kiwi jam at home is easy in a water bath canner

Foraging

Eating Acorns: 60+ Acorn Recipes from Around the World

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Eating Acorns ~ Acorn Recipes from Around the World

Acorn Nut Butter

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Acorn Nut Butter ~ A creamy spread made from acorns.

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Herbalism

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

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My own homemade comfrey salve for back pain.

Homemade Herbal Shampoo Recipe

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Homemade Herbal Shampoo Recipe from the Botanical Skin Care Course

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Primitive Skills

How to Process Soil into Clay for Pottery

Processing Soil into Clay for Pottery

Extracting Salt From Plants for Survival

Extracting Salt from Plants for Survival

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Off-Grid Living

Raising Dairy Goats Off the Grid

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Mother goat and kids

Maintaining Off Grid Systems in Winter

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Vermont Off Grid Home in winter

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Permaculture

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.

How to Grow Rhubarb from Seed

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Handful of rhubarb seed

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Canning & Preserving

Preserving Cheese in Wood Ash

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Preserving Cheese in Wood Ash

20+ Ways to Preserve Pumpkin and Winter Squash

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Collage of a number of different ways to preserve pumpkin

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Recent Posts

Homemade Apple Wine

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Glass of apple wine on a table in front of a basket of apples

Lion’s Mane Mushroom (Hericium Erinaceus): Identification & Uses

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Lion's Mane Mushroom growing on a beech tree

100+ Dehydrator Recipes ~ Food Dehydrator Recipes for Fruit, Veggies, Meat & More

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Collage of healthy food dehydrator recipes

Foraging Butter Nuts (Juglans cinerea): Butternut Tree Identification and Processing

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My two year old son holding a few wild foraged butternuts (husked, cured and dried)

30+ Ways to Preserve Apples

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Ways to Preserve Apples ~ Collage of Apple Preservation Techniques

Canning Potatoes ~ How to Pressure Can Potatoes at Home

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Canning Potatoes at Home

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Meet Ashley from Practical Self Reliance

Ashley Adamant Author Bio

I’m an off-grid homesteader in rural Vermont and the author of Practical Self Reliance, a blog that helps people find practical ways to become more self-reliant. Read More…

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