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Yes, you can bake bread

By Lindsay Curren | February 23, 2012

Fresh Bread

My husband and I are on one heck of a family resilience bender. When we first got married almost three years ago, we focused on insulating our place from attic to basement, shaving 20% off of our heating and cooling expenses. This really adds up. But in the past six months our efforts have turned more to homemaker re-skilling. We've added a rain barrel and composter. He's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Products, Re-skilling Tagged With: food, Lindsay's Yes you can series, reskilling, urban homesteading

Is our future our past?

By Staff Reports | August 2, 2011

Chock

If there's one thing most post peak oil commentators have given too little consideration to it's how goods will be moved and how farms will function in our scary and fast approaching future. Sure there's the fraternity that talk about bicycles and walking and they're on the right track, particularly if you're lucky or wise enough to reside in a city or village. However a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Re-skilling Tagged With: conservation, farming, food, gardening, homesteading, local food, peak oil, transportation

Transitional garden

By Vicki Lipski | January 11, 2011

Shery' Humphrey's Rainbow Chard painting for the Hudson Valley Seed Library's Art Packs collection.

When seed catalogs start arriving in the mail, gardeners know it's time to get busy. That's because unordered seeds never grew anything, as all gardeners discover one sad spring or other. Somehow the order never got written up, phoned in, or placed online. The March deadline came and went – and there you were, mid-April, furious with yourself as you scrutinized the limited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Re-skilling Tagged With: DIY, farming, food, gardening, Jan 2011, local food

Low-tech for your resilience toolbox

By Erik Curren | December 30, 2010

German 19th century fireless cooker

In a world where iPhones, iPods and  iPads are everywhere and where dinner often means popping frozen mac and cheese into the microwave, pre-industrial ways of living may seem hopelessly quaint. But if you're concerned about peak oil, old tech can offer ways to increase personal and family resilience, if you're open to considering it. Can't you use less energy to do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Products, Re-skilling Tagged With: Dec 2010, energy efficiency, John Michael Greer, survivalism

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