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How to Keep Cool This Summer
Everyone, not just the young or elderly, is at risk in the heat. Know the dangers of heat, the warning signs of trouble, and how to keep cool this summer.
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El Niño and La Niña
Add to Favorites By Rhonda Crank, The Farmer’s Lamp I’m not a meteorologist magnet; nor am I a weather wizard. But as a sustenance farmer, the weather plays a large part …
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A Quick Pack
Add to Favorites By Christopher Nyerges, California It’s always best to plan ahead. Carry essential gear, since you never know when you’ll need it: knife, fire-starter, water, cordage—that sort of thing. …
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Off-Grid Refrigeration
Add to Favorites By Dan Fink When buying appliances for a new home or a remodel, most people cruise the big box store looking for the right combination of features, …
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Installing a Backup Hand Pump
Add to Favorites By Gail Damerow One of the disadvantages of having an electric well pump is that when the power fails, the pump stops delivering water. If the water …
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Water Systems For Off-Grid Living
Add to Favorites By Dan Fink A steady supply of drinkable water is the single most important factor in deciding where to settle down and live. It has shaped humankind’s …
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Preparing For Power Outages
While an argument can be made that our society has become too dependent upon electricity, few argue that sudden power outages can sometimes be more than merely inconvenient.
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How To Build Your Own Solar Oven
Add to Favorites By Jeff Hoard, HM Ranch One of the easiest and most productive projects I’ve built here at HM Ranch is a simple solar oven. The only expense …
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A Lesson In Outdoor Survival
Add to Favorites By Mike Dishnow, Wisconsin A simple outdoor excursion that will quickly bring you in touch with the basic needs universal to humanity uses three tenants: food, water …
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A Primer About Solar Electric
Add to Favorites By Dan Fink, Colorado Back when I was a young teenager, I saw something that changed my life forever — a solar electric panel. My parents had just bought remote, …
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Building Bridges With Basil, Rosemary And Yarrow
Add to Favorites By Judith Andrews Starting a medicinal herb garden in early spring of 2013 was the beginning of bridge awareness—the bridge between fresh herbs and their equivalent essential oils, between traditional …
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Full Moon Names And Meanings
Add to Favorites By Shirley Kelly, Colorado Full moon names date back to Native Americans, of what now is Northern and Eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive …
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My Experiments With Milking Plants
Add to Favorites By Daniel Strauss This cartoon was my first exposure as a child to the concept of non-dairy milk alternatives: After all the milk wells on the planet of Felina had gone …
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Building With Straw Bales and Adobes
Add to Favorites By Karin Deneke “This looks like the inside of a barn,” a friend of mine exclaimed when she visited my unfinished straw bale house years ago. And …
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The Countryside Tale
Add to Favorites Around 1969, JD Belanger, the founder of this magazine, combined Rabbit World, which was 32 pages long, with Dairy Goat Guide, which was 12 pages, and Countryside, which …
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