Reviving the lost art of self-reliance, one small step at a time
Living more lightly on the earth means breaking some of our habits to cut back on packaging waste and toxins in our homes.
If you send kids off to school every day, you know just how hard it is to pull together a zero-waste lunch. If you’re trying to skip plastic products as well, it’s even harder.
Wondering how to keep homemade bread fresh? Here’s how to store homemade bread in DIY linen bread bags so it lasts longer. Here’s how to make a bag from thrifted linen in 15 minutes!
Make linen bread bags in just 15 minutes – no more moldy bread!Read More
Sharing big items — instead of every household owning one — can save you money, reduce the environmental impacts of producing more than we really (truly) need, and free up some of your precious storage space.
We’re being overrun with plastic. Recycling plastic is NOT the answer. It’s time to talk about how to reduce plastic use in our homes & offices.
20+ Ways to Cut the Plastic Waste at Your Place (Recycling isn’t the Answer)Read More
How one family transformed a collapsing barn into a small space living adventure. How to pare down, share space, and stretch storage.
Small Space Living with a Family of Six (and Various Pets)Read More
When seasoning cast iron at home, you can choose which oil to use. Commercially pre-seasoned cast iron might have a GMO surface.
Sometimes it’s a meandering path of lessons and learning skills on the way to self-sufficient living. Especially small-scale backyard self-sufficiency.
The Journey to Backyard Self-Sufficiency: One Mom’s StoryRead More
Parsing organic farming facts and how organic crops compare to conventional produce is not easy. It’s almost as if it’s a *secret. Both organic farming and conventional farming use pesticides, but how do they compare? In a nutshell? Organic farming isn’t perfect, but I’ll take it.
Organic food sounds good. But what IS it? A lot of chemicals used by organic growers are safe & have been tested, at least reasonably well. But not all.
What is Organic? Is it as “Clean” as You’d Like to Believe?Read More
