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Venison Recipes

Being self sufficient on the homestead often means hunting for your own meat for the table. Venison is one of the primary game meats that homesteaders use, but it can be hard to get used to the flavor of game, as well as being difficult to find good venison recipes for all that deer meat in your freezer!

10 comments    food recipes recipe
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Self Sufficiency - Saving Vegetable Seeds

Self Sufficiency - Saving Vegetable Seeds There are special seed producers that continue to offer heirloom seeds. These are vegetableseeds that have not been hybridized. A hybrid seed (plant) is one that has...

15 comments    family food gardening
A good supply of wood is a comforting security measure for winter.94

25 Ways to be More Self Reliant Today

Self reliant living has always been an important skill. From the Pilgrims to our grandparents that lived through the depression and World War 2 the ability to survive and thrive during times of intense...

15 comments    finance tips save money
"Watermelon -- it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face."  --  Enrico Caruso 84

Watermelon 911

Near daybreak, waking to a loud and screeching halt that resulted in my nearly being thrown out of the big rig cab bunk -- I was grateful we’d avoided the accident ahead of us. A few minutes later, when...

25 comments    gardening garden florida
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Don't Plant Me Here!

A long time ago, as a young bride, we were both in the Air Force and stationed at Dyess AFB, in Abilene, Texas. I can distinctly remember thinking, "Lord, don't plant me here!" Texas back then, in my mind,...

16 comments    gardening garden cash
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Peter Proctor: Singing The Song Of Sustainability

In the very country where Mahatma Gandhi composed the strains of non-violence to win freedom, there’s a symphony that’s being orchestrated by one man – and it’s all about sustainability. I hadn’t...

39 comments    nature environment green living
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Managerial Accounting - Capital Exepnditure Decision

Technological advancements are forcing companies to scapped their old and obsolete assets and replace them with more efficient ones. Average machines life has reduced to 5-7 years. But this pays off as the...

3 comments    capital cash flow sustainability
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Quick Ways To Make Extra Money

If you need to make some extra cash quickly here are some great ideas that you can do with out spending a dime. Make enough extra money this week to pay off that bill with these money making ideas for quick and easy income

106 comments    advice family finance
Home-built run with converted rabbit hutch as roost. Note suspended feeders underneath hutch and plastic covered run.73

Keeping Chickens for Eggs

If you want to keep something different as a pet, have you considered keeping a few hens? They are fairly quiet, (as long as you only keep girls), can be fed on nice clean pellets, (supplemented with...

5 comments    home food tips
Barbara and Tom Good from the BBC series.71

The Barefoot Hippie

I've just moved to a country paradise, the shoes are off and I'm communing with my inner hippie (she's never very far from the surface). Now it's planning time - vegie gardening, bush regeneration, spinning, knitting...

0 comments    pets animals environment
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