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Practical Self Reliance

Your Practical Guide To Self Reliant Living

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60+ Nasturtium Recipes ~ Food, Drinks, Remedies & More

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Nasturtium Edible Flowers

Best (and Worst) Emergency Food Suppliers of 2021

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Emergency Food Supply

How to Grow Salmonberries (Rubus spectabilis)

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Salmonberry Fruits

Cooking with Freeze Dried Meat ~ Lightweight Emergency Food

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Freeze Dried Meat

Foraging

Poisonous Berries ~ A Forager’s Guide

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Bittersweet Nightshade

Violet Jelly

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Violet Jelly

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Herbalism

15 Ways to Use Borage

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Borage Flowers in Hand

Black Eyed Susan Medicinal Uses

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Black Eyed Susan

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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

Pedal Powered Washing Machine for Off-Grid Laundry

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Using a pedal powered washing machine

Raising Dairy Goats Off the Grid

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Mother goat and kids

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Permaculture

How to Grow Shipova (Sorbopyrus sp.)

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Shipova Fruit Photograph by Krzysztof Ziarnek, a Polish Botanist

How to Grow Nanking Cherry (Prunus tomentosa)

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Nanking Cherry Bush in Fruit

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Canning & Preserving

20+ Ways to Preserve Strawberries 

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Need a Few Ways to Preserve the Strawberry Harvest

How to Make Pickled Carrots

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Pickled Carrots

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Recent Posts

How to Graft Fruit Trees

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Grafting Apple Trees

100+ Medicinal Plants and Their Uses

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Medicinal Plants

How to Grow Astragalus (Plus Ways to Use It)

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Growing an Astragalus Plant (Astragalus membranaceus)

How to Make Gravlax (Salt Cured Salmon)

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gravlax

How to Dehydrate Carrots

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Dehydrating carrots

How to Grow Elderberries

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How to Grow Elderberries

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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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