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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Readiness: Readiness Watch for the Week of 28 March 2011
Readiness Watch is a weekly publication intended to provide current, relevant, and actionable readiness information to people determined to be ready for whatever comes next, and especially for those people who are just starting their journey down the road to readiness. Readiness Watch will include observations, commentary, advice, links to resources, and related news. I always […] Continue reading
Readiness: Be ready now: 3 things you can start doing this week to be ready for whatever comes next: Clothing
Be ready now is a weekly post about things you can do right now to get ready for whatever might come next courtesy of Dennis L Hitzeman’s Readiness Weblog. You can find other posts in this series in the “Be ready now” category. This week’s theme: Clothing Immediate: Put together a clothing kit for each person who […] Continue reading
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Tagged Be ready now, clothing, Immediate Readiness, Intermediate readiness, Long-term Readiness, planning, readiness
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Farming: Broadforking, gardening, and growing your own food, expanded and refined
Earlier this week, I discussed the idea of using a broadfork as a method for tilling the ground instead of using a tiller and and why this method is superior to traditional tilling. Of course, this method still has its own related expenses and may seem like a daunting investment of resources and time to […] Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, Choices, Experiments, Farming, food production, gardening, Gardneing, Independence, Self-sufficiency, self-sustainment
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Farming: What’s your excuse for not growing your own food
I’ve heard most of them already: it’s too hard, too expensive, takes too much time, takes too much space, etc. The worst excuses run along the lines of why should I grow my own food when I can pay someone else to grow it for me. Of course, all of these excuses are worth far less […] Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Food
Tagged Farming, gardening, Gardneing, growing your own food, Self-sufficiency
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Farming: Broadforking and policulture
Over the winter, I came across an interesting concept while reading Eliot Coleman‘s Four Season Harvest: the idea of using a broadfork to loosen soil instead of a tiller to grind it. As it turns out–and anyone who has played in the dirt for any length of time probably already knows this–what we call “top […] Continue reading
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Tagged broadfork, Experiments, Farming, gardening, Gardneing, policulture, soil
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