Affordable land invariably comes only far away from major cities. Knowing how to buy it is not something taught in school.
I started the process of creating a nicely formatted edition of Emma Goldman's "Anarchism and Other Essays" with annotations of historical figures. It will look similar to "The Enchiridion", but it is a significantly longer work. You can preview the current draft now and I'll drop notes here when there are updated editions. The style of my annotations are all about saving you time looking up historical contexts whenever people are places are mentioned in passing in these older documents. Read on to see examples.
If there's an easy meat that you can grow yourself, it could be chickens. Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 3rd Edition
is probably the best way to get the knowledge covering how to choose a breed, chicken whispering, shelters, feeding and watering, management, eggs, breeding and butchering. Yes, there is blood involved and death. Where do you think chicken comes from anyway? Get over it. Vegetarians are telling you the truth when they tell you "meat is death" but no one is telling you that you must eat meat either. |
| On the other hand, http://redshirtknitting.com does have a blue chicken. |
Plant something once, enjoy it for years afterwards, this is what perennial plants bring to the table for your food security plan. Includes information for which perennials are good for different gardening zones. Ever wondered what was a edible perennial? Here's a short list: |
| h/t to radicalglasgowblog for this gem |
True-believer syndrome is a term coined by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia. Keene used the term to refer to people who continued to believe in a paranormal event or phenomenon even after it had been proven to have been staged.
All Chinese tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant and you can grow it in your greenhouse or home or outdoors in Zone-8 (cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates) regions. If you're growing it from seed, you will need to wait three years before the plant becomes hardy enough to harvest as only the two leaves on the top and buds are picked with every flush while the plant is not dormant.
If you are planting things in the open in a place like Kansas, wind is an issue. A strong gust of wind can break all of your plants in moments. While you could put up mechanical systems, it's better to grow your own. A hoop house will protect everything inside of it, but there are situations where you need to protect more than can fit inside of a hoop house.Some general rules to follow for farmstead windbreaks include: Plant at least two rows of conifers on the north and west side of the farmstead; to reduce snow drift problems, leave 50 to 100 feet between the windbreak and critical farmstead areas; plant at least two different species of conifers; choose species which are best adapted to your site. For some sites consider a strip of prairie or warm season grasses for both snow capture and wildlife habitat. (http://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2006/jan/070202.htm)Windbreaks can provide natural fencing and privacy as well. I'm also wondering if they might be used to concentrate wind energy by funneling it towards your wind generator--it may be possible to take a 3 mph light wind and focus it to a 10 mph breeze.
Oh boy. Talk about a book that polarizes people. This book talks about the waste of people and industrial society and what you can do about it. Today with Japan's earthquake driven nuclear disaster that threatens to spread radioactive waste around the world, this book calls for even more attention about our desire for "boundless" resources like energy. This book may have points of view that will shock you and make you question your own existence and way of life.
Maybe you need a little bit of power to play your music to cover up the sound of the wind whipping around your house. Going offline mandates that you're going to economize on the energy that you need anyway, the less you require, the easier it is to provide for yourself. Some people believe that it is possible to live on 60W of available energy/day---which is what this wind generator will average with 15 mph winds. You'll still need batteries and control systems and towers, but hey, this will look really cool behind your Hexayurt or Tiny House. Small "netbook" style computers use 40W chargers. An LED lightbulb may only use 12W to provide 60W of "incadescent" light. Now you've got 8W left to splurge on--aha, you can tune your computer to use about 8W.
