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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Lasagna Style Compost, Chock Full of Worms Yet Again

Hey Folks. Have had a bit of interest on how the latest lasagna compost cage has been built so here’s a bit of a look. Also included a bit of a gander at how the last lot of compost turned out & the compost worms that have been hard at work improving it’s quality. Must say I’m very pleased with the result.

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Endless fish & vegetables with aquaponics : Prepper Fest Arizona

I was extremely impressed with this aquaponic system of providing fish protein and vegetables in a self contained low maintenance package.

You could fit the entry level “Genesis” system on any patio or backyard.

Combine this system of fish & vegetables from endless food systems along with the meat from rabbits, quails and quail eggs…and you could have an impressive supply of food even in an urban/city environment.

No need to rely on electricity for refrigeration and no need to rely on a grocery store.

You also dont need acres of farm land to provide you the meat and vegetables.

And the nice thing about fish is…you can feed them bugs, worms and insects which are usually abundant and free if you run out of fish food?

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: 10 Reasons Why You Should Grow More Peppers and Less Tomatoes in Your Garden

John from http://ift.tt/13mBQAf shares with you 10 reasons why you should grow more peppers and less tomatoes in your home vegetable garden. In this episode John goes around his garden and share some of his opinions on this subject. After watching this episode, you may learn a few things about peppers you never knew. Finally, John will share some of the world’s hottest and most rare pepper plants and share where you can purchase over 500 varieties of different kind of pepper seeds.

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: How to Prune Your Cucumbers to Grow them Vertically up a Trellis

John from http://ift.tt/13mBQAf will show you how he prunes his cucumber plants to grow them vertically up a trellis. In this video John will explain why he is pruning or single stemming his cucumbers so that he can better manage them when growing them up a vertical trellis. After watching this video you will learn how to properly train your cucumbers (as well as tomatoes) to get them to grow vertically and produce more fruit.

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: 3 Vertical Ways to Grow Cucumbers and Save Space

This video shows you three ways to vertically grow cucumbers. It will save you space, cut back on disease and increase the production of the plants. Tomato cages, a chicken wire trellis,a standard fence and even an apple tree are great ways to grow your cucumber vertically.

New to Gardening? Check out my 2nd Gardening YouTube Channel dedicated to New Gardeners. The videos are longer and more detailed. Each video presents as if you are new to gardening.
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IFFTT (If This Then That) is a  free web application to help automate processes. Want to learn how? Check out my book on explaining the history, examples, and real world scenario’s using IFTTT.

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Pleased to provide an overview of Pseudocode. What is it? What isn’t it? You can purchase it on Amazon for less than a buck!

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Off Grid mountain top 7.2 KW solar install from start to finish built by Off Grid Contracting

In this video we install a 7.2 KW solar system for a customer to run many off grid applications including a water heater, well pump, lighting and more. This system took roughly one week to install for the client and was a very fun project on a mountain top. If you would like to go off grid contact us at http://ift.tt/1HrfzGj and we can help make your dreams a reality. If you want to get off grid parts at a great price visit: http://ift.tt/1LkZcOg

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: How to deal with your Sh*t during SHTF

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The title is: How to deal with your Sh*t during SHTF

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Nailing down the top 5 best skills sites for the prepper is difficult. There are a plethora of information given in multiple platforms. How does one identify one distinct site for providing the skills to survive and thrive?

I will attempt to do so in this article.
When I consider the basic skills to live off-grid, couple of common things come in mind.
1) Gardening to replenish your vitamen food source
2) Alternative health, to not rely on popping the pill bottle
3) Livestock to replenish the protein food source
4) How did our forefathers thrive without Google, the lost knowledge of craft

Gardening
Let’s look at gardening. When I think of gardening, I am looking for the method to produce an abundant amount of food as efficiently as possible. My wife would lean toward aesthetic. In my search for site(s) on the who too aspect, I tried to weed out the flowers and sellers. Admittedly, there are some sellers that have good articles on how to garden.
I came across a really good YouTube channel by Gary Pilarchik: His websiteis dedicated to Vegetable gardening. Gary’s site along with Growing Your Greens you should be covered.
Personally, I like the videos over articles, since I am a visual learner.

Alternative health
My first instinct is to look to The Patriot Nurse She has awesome content with health and how to combat issues, in a grid down scenario.
But what about those herbs our grand or great-grandparents used? There is an interesting site called Self Healing Herbs providing old remedies our ancestors used.
I would also point out Herbal Transitions has a good list of common name herbs and their uses. You should check them out as well.

Spiritual hoodoo aside, Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary provides interesting educating videos covering medicinal herbs.
Livestock
While we can buy freeze dried or box supplies of food, a replenishment of healthy livestock is more ideal. Depending on your available landscape, the kind of livestock will vary. I will focus on the smaller livestock, for those urban dwellers desiring to acquire home grown protein.

The top three contenders are
• Chickens
• Rabbits
• Goats

Chickens
Chickens can be raised solely for their egg production, as meat, or both.
Backyard Chickens is a good site covering the chicken information as well as Alamanac.com.
Country Farm also has a really good page covering chickens.

Rabbits

Rabbits have become a staple for the homesteader, due to it being simple, require little attention and provide meat. I would also add Rabbit manure is great for your garden.
A good primer can be found here.

Goats
I have noticed those raising goats for meat have a larger area of landscape, where those in smaller areas raise them for milk.
Free Range Life has a good guide in goat breeds. Goat World is a full blown site dedicated in everything about goats.

Lost Skills
“History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.”     Ecclesiastes 1:9 New Living Translation

As we read this article on the WEB, it is difficult to consider the first website went online in December 1990. Less than 26 years ago.

While we can acquire pretty much any knowledge online, we have lost are abilities in how to cope life without electricity, and the benefits of electronics.

“The SHTF we all prep for is what folks 150 years ago called daily life.” Claude Davis.

Before the grid goes down, I suggest the Survivor Library site. It provides a good arsenal of free files online covering everything from accounting, embalming to wood-carving and welding.
Need a list of skills to look into?

Ancestry provides 11 skills our grandparents had in their daily life.
Those 11 skills mentioned are:
Courting
Hunting, Fishing, Foraging
Butchering
Bartering
Haggling
Darning and Mending
Corresponding by Mail
Lighting a fire without matches
Diapering with a cloth
Writing with a fountain pen

Other lost skills mentioned in other articles are knitting, using a compass, and handwriting.

Recall in 2013 with the discussion of public schools no longer teaching our kids to write in cursive.

I suggest checking out The Modern Farmer and The City Edition article on country skills.

Final Thoughts

While I couldn’t really find five specific sites to encompass everything I was thinking, there is a slew of information out there to be had. I highly suggest getting that information now, while it remains available. Acquire it, print it out, and make your own personal library.

Hopefully this article provides some links you either wasn’t aware of, or guides you to what you are looking for.

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Earthen Oven in 24 hours – 18th Century How-to Series

How to make a simple earthen oven out of the least quantity of inexpensive materials in the shortest amount of time. Go from bare ground to a baked loaf of bread in less than 24 hours. Make sure to check out the companion blog to this series at http://ift.tt/1iMiONd

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Rocket Mass Heater Update – An American Homestead

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It’s been 2 months since we got our Rocket Mass Heater installed in the greenhouse. Everything seems to be working as it should and it’s seems to be taking the edge off the cold inside.

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Rocket Mass Greenhouse Heater Pt.2 – An American Homestead

It works! Well sort of. I’m getting good draw on the system right away. The top of the 55 gallon drum is too hot to touch within 90 seconds of lighting a fire. My question is, how long does the fire need to go before 2nd combustion happens? How do I tell? Also, the exhaust pipe doesn’t get very hot…just mostly warm. Shouldn’t it be getting hotter than that if its going to heat up mass like cob?

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Rocket Mass Greenhouse Heater Build Pt.1 – An American Homestead

We need a way for our greenhouse aquaponics system to stay above freezing this winter. We explored a number of options and decided on a Rocket Mass Heater. I think we made the right choice.

I understand there are a lot of people researching this topic, we will do a series of videos including cost and review analysis coming in the days ahead!

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Can You Re-Grow Celery? -Proof – An American Homestead

So a couple of months ago, I planted celery from a stalk that we had eaten. All I planted was the leftover ball of the bottom of the plant. Did it grow back? Let’s see!

Plus we take a look at our future greenhouse Rocket Mass Heater!

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Here is an interesting video I found.

The title is: Preparing Your Garden For Spring

You can’t just sit around during fall and winter and expect that when spring gets here that your garden is going to be ready to go for planting. There are things you need to do to get the ground ready with lots of nutrients that the plants will love. Every year your plants remove nutrients from the soil, its important to put some back!

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Here is an interesting video to share.

The title is: Easy DIY Rocket Stove You Can Build Yourself

There are all kinds of fancy rocket stove projects and gadgets out there that cost a lot of money. This one will only cost you about $15 bucks.

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The title is: Suet – 18th Century Cooking with Jas. Townsend and Son S3E7

How to buy, prepare and use suet in an 18th century fashion. See our Website at http://jas-townsend.com and the cooking blog at http://ift.tt/1iMiONd

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The title is: The Top 6 Historical Egg Preservation Techniques!

In today’s video, we explore six egg preservation methods that were used in households from the 18th century to well into the 20th century. Early tests reveal that some of these methods were incredibly effective. You won’t believe how successful the top-rated method worked!

Caveat: this video is intended to only present the methods and tests results outlined in historical texts. We have not tested these methods ourselves, and we can not guarantee similar results.

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The title is: Season 2 Episode 4 – An American Homestead – Rain Catchment

This week on An American Homestead, we take a look at almost 3 years of doing laundry by hand. Jaimie and her mother Joanne show no signs of slowing down and Jaimie gives some advice for others who are interested in off-grid laundry. Plus the homestead has the garden rain catchment system up and working. It will provide over 500 gallons of water to be used for the garden this summer.

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The title is: Season 2 Episode 3 – An American Homestead – Chickens

This week on An American Homestead, the chickens come under attack and our defenses have to be bolstered in order to protect the flock. Plus we help out a friend nearby who brings over a bunch of chickens to be butchered. And Finally, it’s hot. So you know what that means!

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The title is: Season 2 Episode 2 – An American Homestead – The Solar Dehydrator

This week on the homestead, we get a chance to use our newly built solar dehydrator. Plus we take a look at the first ever vintage of wine being bottled on the homestead.
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