Why Subscribe?

Practical Self Reliance has been an online resource for foraging, preserving, gardening, and everything DIY for 5 years now. In that time it’s grown from a small hobby blog where I wrote about our homesteading adventures, to an online how-to resource seen by literally millions of people every year.

Though it’s a free online resource (supported by ads), I’m looking for more ways to make it an ad-free reader-supported resource.

The newsletter will always be free, and it’ll still contain the same curated seasonal content from the website, as well as notifications about new articles.

Paid subscriptions will also get you into the reader-supported community where we can do in-depth Q&A, and give you a behind-the-scenes look at our current projects. Most things take months (or years) of work before you see them on the site.

I’m also hoping to create subscriber-only content including seasonal foraging guides, fun how-to projects, and unique recipes.

Since subscribers can comment, discuss and interact with others on their own self-reliance journey, my hope is that it becomes a community of like-minded individuals as well.

As a free newsletter subscriber, you won’t have to worry about missing anything. Every week you’ll get detailed articles delivered right to your inbox.

As a paid subscriber, you’ll be able to comment and interact with posts right here on substack, and you’ll also have access to subscriber-only content. You’ll also be helping push Practical Self Reliance toward a reader-supported future.

About Us

My name is Ashley, and I’ve been homesteading with my family for the past 15 years now. My husband and I work 30 acres of land in Vermont, alongside our two young children.

I’m particularly passionate about foraging and historical food preservation techniques.

I started Practical Self Reliance as a notebook, literally writing “how-to” guides for myself so I’d have all I’d learned in one place. It’s been amazing to discover that the my “notes” to myself are really handy to others, and I’ve become passionate about sharing all I’ve learned with all of you.

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I hope you’ll join the Practical Self Reliance Newsletter, either as a free subscriber or paid supporter. Either way, I’d love to have you along and I welcome you to join this community of passionate DIY enthusiasts that share your interests.