Category Archives: Homesteading

Potato industry ‘at risk’ after latest outbreak of disease

By Joshuah | Published: July 5, 2010
Source: Scotsman.com Business THE Scottish seed potato industry has reacted with anger to the confirmation of another crop of potatoes being infected with the highly infectious and transmissible potato disease dickeya solani which was found in a sample of ware potatoes grown last year on West Mains of Colliston outside Arbroath. The outbreak has a number [...]
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Resource: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)

By Joshuah | Published: June 23, 2010
Source: HEARTH HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950 were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published between 1850 and 1925 and a [...]
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Hot Chicks: Backyard Chicken Keeping Is Catching On, Legal or Not

By Joshuah | Published: May 16, 2009
The urban homesteading movement got a huge symbolic boost this spring when the first family installed a 1,100-square-foot vegetable garden at the White House. Poultry is the natural next step in the sustainable back yard; chickens produce eggs, devour kitchen scraps and add manure to the compost pile. "Chickens are America’s cool new pet," said [...]
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Economic survivalists take root

By Joshuah | Published: April 15, 2009
Each and every family should strive to become a fully functional economic unit in itself. What this family is doing is returning to the practice of becoming producers, and not simply consumers. In good times or bad, this is the best way to go…and you don’t need 40 acres to do it. When the [...]
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Early crops

By Joshuah | Published: March 30, 2009
Last fall we built a cold frame – nothing fancy, just some plastic and stakes – and put it over parts of our then empty garden beds, sowed a few test crops, and sat back and waited.  Now that March is almost over, we were able to harvest a good amount of spinach that lay [...]
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Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom

By Joshuah | Published: March 16, 2009
With the recession in full swing, many Americans are returning to their roots — literally — cultivating vegetables in their backyards to squeeze every penny out of their food budget. Industry surveys show double-digit growth in the number of home gardeners this year and mail-order companies report such a tremendous demand that some have run [...]
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Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months

By Joshuah | Published: January 12, 2009
Think Non-Electric tools and appliances, and communications the old fashioned way, with paper and pencil and perhaps visiting friends and family…and be armed. Source: FOXNews.com A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the [...]
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Survivalist mentality becomming mainstream (again)…

By Joshuah | Published: June 30, 2008
…but is it too little too late? Click the link to read the full story, and don’t be satisfied by the reading alone. Do something positive and practical, especially if you have a wife and children to care for. ‘The Archers’ brings the idea of a self-sufficient community to the fore – Telegraph World shortages [...]
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Pioneers show Americans how to live off-grid

By Joshuah | Published: May 29, 2008
Interesting story, from Reuters With energy prices going through the roof, an alternative lifestyle powered by solar panels and wind turbines has suddenly become more appealing to some. For architect Todd Bogatay, it has been reality for years. When he bought this breezy patch of scrub-covered mountaintop with views to Mexico more than two decades ago, he [...]
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