Every year we commit to learning a few new skills, and helping you to learn them at the same time. My favorite posts to write are detailed DIY articles and beginner’s guides, to spark your interest and imagination, with the hopes that you’ll add new skills to your own self-reliance tool kit.
Help me decide what to write this year!
Leave me a comment below and let me know what you’d like to learn.
I love teaching, and I’m happy to share what I know. What I don’t know, I’m usually happy to learn so I can teach that too!
Above: Some projects from this past year including elderflower mead (recipe coming soon), pancetta, lotion bars, and wild foraged chanterelles.
I am a mom, wife and owner of two businesses that I run from home. I use essential oils, garden, can, dehydrate, hunt and process all our own meat. This year I will add cheese making, canning tuna, and salt curing pork to my bank of knowledge. We are nowhere near "homesteaders" but I am working constantly at learning new skills toward self sufficiency. I feel like I am just scratching the surface with my learning but each little bit ads up eventually, right? I love all your posts and hope to add foraging to my list. My only request would be to make your posts easier to print. I find myself printing so many of them to add to my sort-of encyclopedia notebook. Thank you!
While I love getting your emails full of incredible information, as a forager and grower myself I completely understand that this is your JOB! I am a soapmaker and I don't give away my products. When someone in my circle thinks my prices are too high, I generally ask them if they work for free! I will support you and wish you huge success in this next strep of growth.