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Collapsniks and Survivalists

  • Urban Survival Site
    When the Hospitals are Overrun: First Aid Basics
    4 hours ago
  • The Economic Collapse
    Bounties Are Being Put On The Heads Of Federal Agents As America’s Domestic Terror Crisis Escalates
    4 hours ago
  • SHTF Plan
    Activists Say Greta Thunberg Was Abused In Prison
    7 hours ago
  • SurvivalBlog.com
    Preparedness Notes for Sunday — October 5, 2025
    18 hours ago
  • Notes From The Bunker
    Pumping for information
    1 day ago
  • Collapse of Industrial Civilization
    Cascading Collapse: America at the Edge of Systemic Breakdown
    1 day ago
  • Survivopedia
    Freedom, Faith, and Firewood: The Philosophy of a Prepared Life
    2 days ago
  • James H. Kunstler
    Higher Ed Bottoms Out
    2 days ago
  • Ask a Prepper
    10 Rare Life-Skills That Will Make You Rich Post-SHTF
    2 days ago
  • Modern Survival Blog
    Philips HeartStart Home AED Defibrillator: A Lifesaving Guide for Families
    4 days ago
  • Our Finite World
    Sierra Club talk that may be of interest
    3 weeks ago
  • The Survival Mom
    Prepper Risk Assessment: Define Your Most Likely Disaster
    4 weeks ago
  • Survival Life
    Prepper Fitness Exercises: Build Strength and Stamina for Survival Tasks
    1 month ago
  • The Prepper Journal
    Nuclear Panic: Separating Fear from Facts for the Modern Prepper
    3 months ago
  • Knowledge Weighs Nothing
    Microinverters: Revolutionizing Solar Panel Efficiency
    5 months ago
  • Economic Undertow
    Ending The War In Ukraine By Attacking Russian Railroads
    6 months ago
  • TheSurvivalistBlog.net
    24 Must-Have Items That Will Vanish First in a Crisis
    1 year ago
  • Bio Prepper
    20 Medicinal Herbs Every Prepper Must Grow
    1 year ago
  • Know Prepare Survive
    Self Defense Weapons for Minors
    1 year ago
  • RESOURCE CRISIS
    Margherita Sarfatti: the Woman Who Destroyed Mussolini
    2 years ago
  • Guide Outdoors
    Forward-Facing Sonar is Changing Much of Fishing
    2 years ago
  • Graywolf Survival
    How to communicate when the world goes silent
    3 years ago
  • Bison Prepper
    April Article- Newer Relocation Guide
    3 years ago
  • The Modern Survivalist »
    Land of the Free, home of the Brave… so you mean Denmark?
    4 years ago
  • Survival Frog Blog
    Hurricane Survival 101
    4 years ago
  • Outdoor Life
    How I Introduced My City Kid to His First Hunting Gun
    4 years ago
  • Loki's Revenge
    Green Energy Kills Natives
    5 years ago
  • Skilled Survivor
    Top 10 Essential Survival Skills For The Wilderness
    5 years ago
  • The Doomsday Moose
    How to Create a Bug-Out Motorcycle
    5 years ago
  • Bison Prepper Bonus Material
    free today
    7 years ago

Useful Websites

  • After The Deadline
  • Aldi's
  • Amazing Koala (Jokes)
  • Butler Eagle Classified Ads
  • Classical Daily Download
  • Club Orlov
  • Google Calendar
  • H&R Block Small Business
  • ImgFlip Meme Maker
  • Internet Anagram Server
  • KUSC
  • Spiral Survival: The Card Game
  • Straight Talk
  • Strong Towns
  • TextBroker
  • The Book Of Life
  • ToodleDo
  • Weather Underground
  • Wind Globe
  • Yahoo! Mail

News and Aggregation Sites

  • Bullets, Beans, and Bullion
  • Daily Collapse Report
  • Daily Good
  • Daily Sheeple
  • Doomstead Diner News
  • KDog's Reading Room
  • Ol' Remus's Woodpile Report
  • Prepper Website
  • The Daily SUN

Podcasts and Videos

  • Homesteading and Permaculture by Paul Wheaton
    Podcast 716 – Gardening Gardeners – Part 1
  • Doom and Bloom (TM)
    Joint Sprains, Muscle Strains, And Tendon Ruptures
  • The Survival Podcast
    Expert Council Q&A – Epi-3741
  • The Permaculture Podcast
    Q&A: Growing a Whole Nutrition Landscape
  • Grateful Dread Public Radio
    Cowboy Coins
  • EatTheWeeds
    Sign Up
  • Peak Moment Television
    End of an Era
  • Living the Good Life Naturally
    Natural Thyroid Tips, Connecting to Leptin
  • Harvest Eating Podcast
    424-Roasted Carrots w Sesame, ORange & Honey
  • The Radical Personal Finance Podcast
    583 – Mega Friday Q&A: (two days early) Richest Man in Babylon, Children and F.I., Invest All at Once, Preparing for Marriage, What’s Next, Etc!
  • Chicken Whisperer
    Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer
  • Self-Sufficient Homestead - Surviving Civilization on the Homestead
    SSHomestead-01 Log Cabin

Rewilders and Bushcrafters

  • Voice In The Wilderness
    THREE FISH
    3 weeks ago
  • Dirttime
    My Fall Colors Drive
    2 years ago
  • Peter Michael Bauer
    Episode 18: A Conversation w/ Eli Loomis
    3 years ago
  • Wilderness Innovation
    How to Choose a Poncho Size
    6 years ago
  • Primitive Technology
    Wood ash cement
    7 years ago
  • Wood Trekker
    Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products
    9 years ago

Favorite Forums

  • AGelbert's Renewable Revolution Forum
  • Doomstead Diner Forum
  • Golden Oxen's First Amendment Forum
  • Green Wizards Forum
  • Paracord Forum
  • Permies.com Forum
  • SUN 4 Living Forum
  • Square Foot Gardening Forum
  • The Commons Free Speech Area
  • The Survivalist Blog

Blog Crypt

  • Aquaponics at RatherYes.com
  • Bacon and Eggs
  • Cheap-Ass-Living
  • Decline of the Empire
  • Gardening Along The Creek...
  • James M. Dakin
  • Living Prepared
  • New Growth Homestead
  • Of The Hands
  • Peak Oil Debunked
  • Small Batch Garden
  • TEOTWAWKI Blog
  • The Deliberate Agrarian
  • The Deliberate Agrarian 2.0
  • The Deliberate American
  • The Flying Tortoise
  • The Gardener of Eden
  • The Leibowitz Society
  • The Oil Drum
  • The Prepper Pages
  • Thermal Cooking
  • Thoughts from Frank and Fern
  • Toby Hemenway
  • Upland
  • Upland
  • Veggiegobbler

Fellow Upslopers

  • Epic Gardening
    Your October Gardening Checklist for Zones 6 through 8 - The post Your October Gardening Checklist for Zones 6 through 8 is by Katherine Rowe and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydr...
    9 hours ago
  • Paracord Projects, Art and Tutorials
    How do I find out hoe much I have left? - I started with 100 foot of cord and after I completed the first part of my watch band, I wanted to know how much I had left but I didn't think about mark...
    9 hours ago
  • one hundred dollars a month
    What I Packed And How I Trained For Hiking In Zion National Park - Let’s just say I am SO HAPPY to be finally done with training for my big adventure hiking in Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. The best part about tr...
    15 hours ago
  • Rural Revolution
    Prepping the wood cookstove for winter - As we prepare for winter, one vital task was to clean out the wood cookstove. As our primary heat source, it's essential to make sure it's operating at p...
    1 day ago
  • Deep Green Permaculture
    Chinese Cabbage – Growing Guide - Overview Description Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis), also known as Napa cabbage or wong bok, is a cool-season biennial grown as an annua...
    2 days ago
  • Miss Mustard Seed
    Arrival & Burford | “gateway to the Cotswolds” - The first delight of our trip came when we boarded the airplane from Washington Dulles to London Heathrow. As we’re walking through the first-class cabi...
    2 days ago
  • Organic Authority
    10 Game-Changing Uses for Whole Almonds - Not only are almonds full of healthy fats, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals, but almonds make the perfect on-the-go snack, recipe […] The post 10 Gam...
    2 days ago
  • Tiny House Blog
    Tiny Binocles, a New Way of Thinking About Housing - Press Release TINY BINOCLES Founded at the end of 2024, the company Tiny Binocles, based in Guidel, Brittany (France), designs and manufactures Tiny Hous...
    4 days ago
  • My Adventures in selfreliance
    A bit of yard work done before the rain hit! - I got the house sprayed down. Washed away some spider/cobwebs around the house. I don’t use pressure washer on the vinyl siding since the water can be he...
    4 days ago
  • Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
    Fear as Growth: A Dancing Rabbit Update - I have never considered myself a very fearful person and I attribute that mostly to my faith. My closest circle that I’ve grown up with could tell you th...
    6 days ago
  • A Moveable Garden
    LIMINAL LIVING #91: 22 SEPTEMBER TO 28 SEPTEMBER 2025 - Weekly recap of my ritual of existence in this liminal space called life. (See here for more info.) RAIN! We got rain! Over 3.5″ on Thursday and and .66″ o...
    6 days ago
  • The Homestead Survival
    What to Do With Whey: 8 Creative Ways to Use This Cheese-Making Super Ingredient - If you’ve ever tried making cheese at home, you probably ended up with a surprising bonus: a bowl (or two) of pale, watery liquid called whey. Many people ...
    1 week ago
  • The Essential Herbal Blog
    Sept/Oct '25 EXTRA! - Subscribers get some exclusive content during the months we don't put out a regular magazine. The Extras are always different, but we try to put a medi...
    1 week ago
  • Root Simple
    So Many Cats - I helped a friend take two cats she’s currently fostering to Santé D’Or to get their shots and I got to hang out with all the foster babies for a few minut...
    1 week ago
  • M.D. Creekmore
    Why I’m Ordering Ivermectin + Mebendazole Every Year - 💊 Yesterday I placed my order with Jase Medical for Ivermectin + Mebendazole — and from now on, I’m going to make this a yearly habit. I talked about this...
    2 weeks ago
  • Shareable.com
    Syrian communities form grassroots emergency networks as coastal wildfires overwhelm state response - When wildfires swept toward the hills of Qastal Ma‘af in Latakia, Ahmad al-Safi and his neighbors grabbed buckets and hoses, racing to protect their oliv...
    2 weeks ago
  • Milkwood - Courses + Skills for Real Life
    Carescapes: Free Online Workshop - Carescapes: Permaculture Design for Every Body How to design life with the spoons, time, and energy you actually have. A Free Online Conversation & Works...
    2 weeks ago
  • Plain and Joyful Living
    Over the the Last Few Days - Over the weekend we worked on our property, went for a hike at Camden Hills (gorgeous ocean view), and worked on some handwork. Yesterday, Mike and...
    3 weeks ago
  • MorningChores
    What Is Garden Sharing and How to Start or Join a Shared Garden - Do you have a ton of land – but no green thumb? Or maybe it’s the other way around. You’ve always dreamed of starting a garden, but since you don’t have a...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Wealthy Earth
    Transplanting in late summer - Started on 8/6, these encino lettuce soil blocks are now ready to be planted in the garden after being inside for 23 days. I’ve got 10 of them and they gro...
    5 weeks ago
  • Krazo Acres
    Uh. Hi there. - It’s strange to come back here after so long. And when I say, “back here”, I mean not only my blog, but **HERE** (taps foot on the still-unfinished living...
    1 month ago
  • Open Source Ecology
    Future Builder Crash Course Is Here - September 1-14, 2025 Factor e Farm, Maysvile, Missouri + Kansas City Area, USA Future Builder Crash Course Build a Complete House in Just 14 Days – Fro...
    2 months ago
  • LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
    How to Mount a Balcony Awning - Hi Kris, I’ve been reading your website for quite a while. It’s one of my favourite blogs. Thank you for what you are doing! We are currently experienci...
    2 months ago
  • Wilderness Dweller
    Leaves at Last - Our deciduous trees are without leaves for nearly 8 months of the year. The first hint of spring green was visible from my window on May 11th. A lot earlie...
    3 months ago
  • PRACTICAL PARSIMONY
    Xray Day - Today, we got little done, but they were important things. For the first time in months, we picked up food. We shared it with someone and gave away lots...
    4 months ago
  • Mom's Scribbles
    This and That - Thinking about my Dad today. I was loudly complaining one day years ago, after weeding the garden and mucking out the hog barn. Dirty, sweaty and crab...
    5 months ago
  • Ecological Gardening
    To Garden Honestly - [image: To Garden Honestly] From "Minnesota" 1980 by Joan Mitchell The call to action appeared in my inbox: “are we gardening while the world burns?” Yes, ...
    6 months ago
  • Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
    Pasa joins lawsuit to restore funding to farmers - Dear Pasa Community, Earlier today, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and Public Rights Project jointly filed a lawsuit against the US governm...
    6 months ago
  • Heavenstretch
    Apple Syrup in February - Here’s another short (and sweet) essay by Lyle Stout. It was sent to me last month (February) but I’m a little late getting it on here (“a little late” is ...
    6 months ago
  • Small Holding
    The Small Hold Has Lost The Fight - This will be the last post for The Small Hold. Pioneer Preppy loved sharing his thoughts on this blog and he had a lot to say! He was smart, funny, opini...
    9 months ago
  • A Home Grown Journal
    A Change - *Blogging was different when I made my first post in mid-2008. I've thoroughly enjoyed it as a way of communication and treasure the many readers with who...
    1 year ago
  • Small virtues
    Replanting a thought - Northern hemisphere readers will be taking in the sunshine, as summer days increase the enjoyment of outdoors. It's quite the opposite in the Southern h...
    1 year ago
  • Living on a Dime
    Cottage Cheese Salad Recipe – Cool And Refreshing! - This quick and easy cottage cheese salad recipe is a tasty and colorful way to take a break from regular veggie salads and sweet salads. The post Cottage...
    1 year ago
  • Gully Grove
    - *2022* Hello there, dwelling place of the crickets. My last post was almost a year ago. What happened? A lot! I could say it was a lack of time and that ...
    1 year ago
  • Food Assets
    Ocean Currents - A basic overview of how the world’s ocean currents work:
    1 year ago
  • Rain's Garden
    Rain Frances Creations - Are you looking for Thursday Art and Dinner Date? Please click on the above image to be redirected to my new website where TADD is now hosted!
    1 year ago
  • Cairncrest Farm
    Gratitude vs. Thanksgiving - Gratitude journals are fairly thick on the ground these days. Try to find a solution to most any problem, from raising an adolescent to an obsession with...
    1 year ago
  • Dark Green Mountain Survival Research Centre
    Every Day Is Halloween. Fires, Floods And Fascism - Preppers had their Fe-wings hurt when that meme showed up in the spring, about this year. I’d been warning them about this since my first year of this blog...
    1 year ago
  • Chicken Feathers
    Dear Friends - Coopville Monday, August 21, 2023 Dear friends..... I have decided to put the blog to bed. I am having too many problems with Blogger and my old, ol...
    2 years ago
  • Living Echo
    Putting the Home into Homesteading - We have been living at The Knob for less than a week and we are already up to our eyeballs in projects. First off was the task of unloading every shiny ...
    2 years ago
  • --- Living Prepared ---
    Good Bye Mrs. Yukon - Good Bye Mrs. Yukon, we will miss you, especially me! She was in perfect medical condition but on 9/4, she had a seizure which led to the discovery of...
    2 years ago
  • Ready Nutrition
    This Giant ‘Water Battery’ Under the Swiss Alps Could Be a Game-Changer for Renewable Energy in Europe - There is a gigantic water battery located in the canton of Valais, under the Swiss Alps, called Nant de Drance. It's a hydropower plant that provides the...
    3 years ago
  • Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Sedum: Stonecrop - Confessions of forager: In a general sense I have known for many years that “Stonecrops” were edible. I avoided them as they were usually associated by ...
    3 years ago
  • Financial Velociraptor
    Bull Call Spread Dell and strangle QYLD - Two trades this week. music selection: “Drive” — The Cars weigh-in: 193.8 n/c I like the chart on DELL. It is in a steady uptrend with only very minor p...
    3 years ago
  • The Self-Sufficient Blog
    How to respond to “why are your farm products so expensive?” - The post How to respond to “why are your farm products so expensive?” appeared first on Farm Websites & Marketing Support for Farm & Craft Food Businesses.
    4 years ago
  • Around The Cabin
    Video Game Scum - Scum is a game I have been playing and find very interesting. The post Video Game Scum appeared first on WWW.AROUNDTHECABIN.COM.
    4 years ago
  • FoodProduction101
    อาหารที่มีคุณภาพดีอย่างไร - ในปัจจุบันนี้เรื่องของอาหารนั้นก็เป็นเรื่องหนึ่งที่เราเองก็ควรที่จะต้องให้ความสนใจและให้ความสำคัญกันอย่างที่สุดจะยิ่งเป็นเรื่องที่ดีเพราะว่า...
    4 years ago
  • Highly Uncivilized
    What Makes The Best Belize Fly Fishing Lodges Different Than A Regular Fishing Lodge? - When someone says Belize many things tend to come to mind: Beautiful Island Living White Sandy Beaches Friendly, English Speaking People But, when a fly ...
    4 years ago
  • coldantlerfarm
    A FRESH START! - Hey all! Great news! The new home of this blog is at coldantlerfarmny.com with updates several times a week in a much snazzier viewer! Also all the farm ...
    4 years ago
  • Mind Your Dirt
    Hired Goons: Protecting My Backyard Chickens from Hawks in the Most Organic Way Ever. An Army of Crows. - Have you ever stepped out into your yard to admire your flock while sipping the morning coffee and scratching your butt only to hear that death scream from...
    4 years ago
  • The Natural Health Library | Site-Wide Activity
    Angie posted an update in the group Recommended Products: I bought a Rumblex Plus - you may have heard me mention it [ ] - I bought a Rumblex Plus – you may have heard me mention it in the FB group. I highly recommend them. I noticed a difference from the first time I used mi...
    4 years ago
  • Of Brambles and Bears....
    Reset.... - Been slacking a little with regards work this week, just found myself absolutely knackered mentally and a tad physically. Trouble is with this slackin...
    5 years ago
  • Arthur Haines Blog
    #GetOverYourselfYounger - I read the following article recently (“OK boomer” isn’t just about the past. It’s about our apocalyptic future; URL: https://www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20963...
    5 years ago
  • Paradise Lot
    2020 Garden Help Days - Spring is on its way! Winter is winding down – some might say it never really arrived. We’re looking forward to seeing all of our wonderful volunteers agai...
    5 years ago
  • City Farmer News
    Missouri charmer led double life, masterminded one of the biggest frauds in farm history - One of the biggest organic farm scams in history By Mike Hendricks Kansas City Star January 12, 2020 Excerpt: Records showed that in 2016 he sold 7 percent...
    5 years ago
  • Tenth Acre Farm
    How to Build a Rain Garden to Capture Runoff - Learn how to build a rain garden that captures rainwater runoff from hard surfaces, such as a roof or pavement, for irrigation or to reduce water polluti...
    5 years ago
  • Scirpidiella's Plants
    Hybrid of Hardy Tamarillo’s (Cyphomandra corymbiflora x fragrans) - part 3 - On July 2019 I posted the photos of first flowers the hybrid of *Hardy Tamarillo **Cyphomandra corymbiflora* (female parent) and male *Guava Tamarillo **C....
    5 years ago
  • Frippery Farm
    Protect Yourself - I refuse to be dragged into the politics of the various mass and public shootings we have recently had in this country. What this post is about is Protectin...
    6 years ago
  • Food Forest at Restful Trails
    4th of July 2019 - Well Joel bought the three of us a new to us used car. Had a few glitches, as we had to replace the brakes, they were a mess, wierd fluid in them. But it...
    6 years ago
  • Temperate Climate Permaculture
    Permaculture Showcase Garden - Here are a couple photos from a garden area next to our house... what I am calling our Showcase Permaculture Garden. It's only a couple seasons old, so the...
    6 years ago
  • Oklahoma Transient
    *****Winners Announced***** - The winners of the Gerber Suspension Multi-Plier + Sheath, and the Victorniox Swiss Army Knife are: Wyoming Heart, you won the *Gerber* And Hobo, you ...
    6 years ago
  • Tramp's Camp
    Flicker Family - This season we have three Flickers that are visiting regularly. The first time we had them visit some years ago, one was working hard to chisel away at ...
    6 years ago
  • Moneyless World - Free World - Priceless World
    Gift Economy - Suelo's TEDx talk - *[*As of today (March 11, 2019), I finally published the edited written transcript of the TEDx talk, with slides, on my website: Suelo's TEDx talk & Tra...
    6 years ago
  • Sunnybrook Farm
    Monday walk to the barn - Aggy went for a walk to the barn and a doe was watching her from near the creek. She had probably never seen a dog spinning around in a circle and of cou...
    7 years ago
  • The Thrifty Garden/Home
    Historical Docu-Drama - ... set between 1785 through 1812 in the state of Maine, USA. *A Midwife's Tale*, ..."*this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household ...
    7 years ago
  • Fernglade farm: A permaculture and organic small holding farm
    We have moved to a new website... - Hi everyone! The blog continues, but at a permanent new location: http://ferngladefarm.com.au/ I look forward to seeing you all there. Comments posted he...
    7 years ago
  • Farm Hack Blog
    Gathering for Open Ag Technology! - Hello Farm Hack community! You are invited to apply for GOAT: Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology hosted at the Omega Institute in New York state ...
    7 years ago
  • *Framboise Manor*
    Welcome March 1, 2018 - we know that we have 30 more days of potential storms, lots of snow, power outages, etc., but when march 1 looks like this, we are more than pleased! that...
    7 years ago
  • 500 Dollar Tomato
    Time Flies - A few weeks ago I got the bright idea to start a Facebook Group for Family pictures. Sort of a Ancestry.com for my Mom, siblings and their extended familie...
    7 years ago
  • the irresistible fleet of bicycles
    - Agriculture Conference 2018 will take place from the 7th to 10th of February at the Goetheanum in Dornach. The biodynamic preparations bring vitality to th...
    7 years ago
  • Planning And Foresight
    A Much Needed Update - Like the title suggests, I'm doing a much needed update and probably the last one of the year. I'll try to cover all the bases... Since my schooling has of...
    7 years ago
  • Casaubon's Book
    Foster Care, Immigration and Where We are Headed - Four years ago we were foster parents to two wonderful children whose family was broken up by deportation. The parents had overstayed their visas (ie, they...
    8 years ago
  • Agriphemera
    1941Planet Jr.Agricultural Implements Catalog - Cover of the 1941 Planet Jr. Catalog Here's a great find for the Planet Jr. collector. This 1941 catalog has 48 pages and is packed with photos and infor...
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  • Maple Seeds of Maine
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  • Polyface Hen House
    Kick the Supermarket Habit! 10 Tips for Identifying Nutritious, Life-Giving Foods - Tip #10 – Ignore the food pyramid… and the “My Plate” Let’s take a look at the role of the USDA in this mess we’re in. Why does it continue to recommend D...
    8 years ago
  • Epiphany Now
    Plutocracy - I don't understand how they get away with it. That is the mystery to me. All of the power should be with the people as we have the numbers, but it's no...
    8 years ago
  • Simple Everyday Living
    Pickled Salmon and Applesauce - Made my first batch of pickled salmon yesterday. I had a King salmon fillet in the freezer from 2015 and since it was from the Columbia River in Washington...
    8 years ago
  • treeseeddreaming
    Defcon 3 - Crazy enough, in the midst of our scandalous Presidential election, we have managed to get up to Defcon 3 in a battle of wills with Russia. Our Defcon (de...
    8 years ago
  • EducationalGardens
    How to Keep Your Garden Safe from Wildlife - They’re so cute! William Moss, Master Gardener with the National Gardening Association, knows that everyone likes wildlife. The sight of a pair of deer pau...
    9 years ago
  • MrBrownThumb
    Fall Vegetable Gardening: What to Plant in September - Are you the kind of gardener who thinks the season is over once your tomatoes ripen? Maybe life got in the way and you didn't plant a summer garden and thi...
    9 years ago
  • Becca's Mini-Homestead
    Time Management - I totally stink when it comes to time management. I either overload myself so much I can’t keep up (and I’m not that great at asking for help) or I leave...
    9 years ago
  • Ornamentals News
    Capture Summer with This Cut Flower Marigold - When we consider what garden flowers to cut for the indoors, marigolds typically don't immediately come to mind. But marigolds make an excellent home c...
    9 years ago
  • Living a Simple Life
    She loses it. - Still at it in our natural home. In this video we are finishing the reclaimed brick floor, go to an italian party and freak out over rope. So we’ve been B...
    9 years ago
  • Tales From Fox Wood
    Something Stirs ... - You might have been thinking that not much has been happening at Fox Wood given the dearth of posts over the last year. Luckily, nothing could be furthe...
    9 years ago
  • Restful Trails Food Forest Garden
    Ramp is done - well the ramp itself is done and painted, but now needs some second coat areas and touch up paint, as well as a few missed spots that don't really show u...
    10 years ago
  • Prepared Housewives
    Pressure Canner + Water Bath Canner + Self Reliant School = AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!! - I love free stuff, and even more than that, I love when it’s good stuff! If you care about preserving your food, or living a more self reliant lifestyle,...
    10 years ago
  • Adventures in Urban Sustainability
    Mushroom and apple foraging adventures in the Southern Highlands - What fun we had on our first mushroom foraging adventure this weekend, thanks to some mushrooming enthusiast friends of ours. Venturing into Belanglo Sta...
    10 years ago
  • The Path to Frugality
    Life Re-Invented - I turned 56 years old on March 8th. For the past 6 months I have been working on looking at what I want to do beyond homemaking with my life. I am deter...
    10 years ago
  • eighth acre farm
    trees-- growing to the sky - daughter. and plums. I was working in the backyard last week with Hunter, a fellow blogger- whose blog has also gone partially dormant. We were making ci...
    10 years ago
  • UrbanFoodWarrior
    Want to Help Pollinators? Go to Seed! - Last night I taught a seed saving class at a community garden. It's a funny thing, because I always talk about how you have to let multiple plants go to se...
    11 years ago
  • Paracord Forum
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    11 years ago

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  • CleanTechnica
    The Hidden Lever: A PSA & What Tesla’s Door Handles Reveal About Its Safety Culture - I’m in Teslas regularly these days. Vancouver’s rideshare ecosystem has quietly standardized around them. Open the Uber app, call a ride, and odds are go...
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    Background Becomes Foreground - I’ve used portal to hell a few times to describe the Internet-connected smartphone screen. Having inched toward the term over a period of time, that assess...
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    The Seldon Paradox, our faulty memories... and the unintentional resurrection of Karl Marx - For your weekend pleasure - or else your daily drive to work - here's another interview that probes issues that are far more important today than they w...
    7 hours ago
  • PopularResistance.Org
    Renewables Are A Global Economic Engine, Not A Culture War Threat - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith boasted in June that a private sector proponent for a new bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s coast would come forward ...
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    The Market Ticker - Yes, The AI Bubble WILL Burst - I've seen this movie before. Nvidia "invests" in AI company. AI Company buys Nvidia hardware (with said investment.) Everyone profits, right? *Wrong.* ...
    12 hours ago
  • The Great Change
    The Republic of Donald’s Gut - ""The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"" *Once upon a time, *inside a spacious, gold-plated colon, there lived a loud and sc...
    13 hours ago
  • Lowering the Bar
    Court: Complaint That Spends 79 Pages Praising the Client Shall Be Rewritten - Not the "short and plain statement" Rule 8 requires, and also irritating.
    2 days ago
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    The Golden Age of Spectacle - *"The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie." Guy Debord* *We're living in the golden age of Spectacle:* whatever substance remains in pol...
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  • Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise
    It Came From . . . 1996 - “I like them French fried potaters.” – Sling Blade Back when Will Smith was punching aliens and not rocks. As I noted in the past, I’ve decided to stop min...
    2 days ago
  • Open Culture
    What a Lack of Social Contact Does to Your Brain - To many of us, the concept of solitary confinement may not sound all that bad: finally, a reprieve from the siege of social and professional requests. Fina...
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  • RADIO ECOSHOCK
    Accelerated Warming – Experts Freak Out - Climate experts and meteorologists in Germany are freaking out. Global warming accelerated significantly. News from The German Meteorological Society, the ...
    4 days ago
  • Ecosophia
    Situationism: Laughter from the Empyrean - Tolerably often, when I’m reading any of the documents that came out of the original Situationist International, I end up feeling as though the author is c...
    4 days ago
  • 99% Invisible
    The Power Broker #13: Drop Dead City - In the mid-1970s, New York was broke, crumbling, and on the edge of collapse. Garbage piled up on sidewalks, unions fought bitterly with City Hall, and b...
    5 days ago
  • Do the Math
    A Theory Gone Flat - This post is a romp through some of the absurd and overtly nonsensical implications of a Flat Earth model. Let it be a lesson to us not to base belief on w...
    5 days ago
  • Richard Heinberg
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    6 days ago
  • Sixbears in the Woods
    The Coming Winter - Fall is officially here. Winter isn’t far behind. I just ordered a couple pallets of pressed sawdust blocks. Normally I’d have a fair bit of firewood ...
    1 week ago
  • Inhabitat
    More Than a Pretty Surface: The Functional Edge of Reflective Materials - Where Form Meets Real-World Function Some materials earn their place in a space because they’re tough. Others, because they look stunning. And then there a...
    1 week ago
  • Karl North Eco-Intelligence
    Can Western Global Elites Really Control their Endgame? - What is Pax Americana, defined in a single sentence? Pax Americana is a globalist parasitic regime that attempts to extract wealth from the rest of the wor...
    2 months ago
  • The Long Now Blog
    Bayo Akomolafe - [image: Bayo Akomolafe] *Attend live on Tue, May 5, 02026 at 7:00PM PTTickets on sale soon* Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) is a philosopher, writer, activist, pro...
    2 months ago
  • un-Denial
    By Hideaway: EROEI - Today’s guest post is by Hideaway, the originator of Complexity Theory, the only new idea in the study of human overshoot since Varki’s MORT 10 years ago. ...
    2 months ago
  • NO TECH MAGAZINE
    Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices - Over the last twenty years, smartphones gradually replaced many earlier digital tools such as PDAs, cameras and music players. Today these objects are rega...
    3 months ago
  • WAKING SCIENCE
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    3 months ago
  • Digital Trends
    Nouvelle Vague, one of the big hits of Cannes, just sold to Netflix - The film tells the story of the making of one of the most important movies in history.
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  • THE SEA GYPSY PHILOSOPHER
    ARE SEA GYPSY TRIBES HUMANITY'S LAST LINE OF DEFENSE? - by Ray Jason Two great forces are currently locked in a crucial battle. Tragically, this struggle is barely noticed. The combatants are *Reality* ...
    4 months ago
  • Peter Turchin
    My Blog Has Moved to Substack - As I wrote at the beginning of 2025, the previous year turned out to be quite a challenge. It took me a while to recover and, then, to deal with the “stuff...
    5 months ago
  • Laird's Commentary on Community and Consensus
    Thoughts About HOA Governance - Recently, a friend was visiting, telling me with some excitement about a condominium that she and her daughter are having build for them. They are hoping t...
    11 months ago
  • Pennsylvania Archives - Only In Your State
    Your Ultimate Guide To Fall Attractions And Activities In Pennsylvania - Many of us spend months counting down the days until fall arrives once again. When it finally gets here, we want to make the most of every moment. The be...
    1 year ago
  • Mato's Blog
    About Julian Assange and other victims of institutional violence - I aways wondered what event would motivate me to issue another post on this blog. Now I know: Julian Assange is freed in one of the rare examples of mercy ...
    1 year ago
  • how to save the world
    Adapting to Collapse: Some More Reminders - A friend of mine asked me the other day how I reconcile my disbelief in free will with the very human need to do something, anything, to cope with, deal wi...
    2 years ago
  • Speaking Truth to Power
    Carolyn Interviewed about her book “Undaunted” by Canadian Ecopsychology Network -
    3 years ago
  • The Vulgar Curmudgeon
    You Are One Step Away From The New Home Page - Hopefully I am all done moving around. You can find me OVER HERE NOW. Please update your blogrolls and bookmarks. It’s been one hell of a journey but I’m h...
    3 years ago
  • Question Everything
    Happy Summer Solstice, Goodbye and Thanks for All the Fish - The time has come to wind this blogging up. I had thought I would try the "rethinking everything" approach, but I've realized that blogging isn't a particu...
    4 years ago
  • Leaving Babylon
    Even Iran is laughing at us - So we have had ourselves a nasty little election. And the fix is in. It seems a bit tedious to recount all the, er, irregularities in certain states. The v...
    4 years ago
  • Granola Shotgun
    New Granola Shotgun Location - Granola Shotgun has moved to a new host platform. If I did this correctly (BIG if…) it can now be found via SquareSpace. The domain name remains the same. ...
    4 years ago
  • Openmind – A Buddhist Monastery Blog
    NEW BLOG “Neurotic Evolution” - Evolutionary Psychology The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind lived and died. So, to...
    5 years ago
  • Mother Nature Network
    Forest products help power local economies - Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs help weather tough times.
    5 years ago
  • Into the Ruins
    The Future of Into the Ruins - The sun is streaming in through my living room window on this chilly but sunny day–the sort of day that always seems to show up at some point each February...
    5 years ago
  • The Foggy Shore
    The Edge of Functioning - “You need to record that. Right now.” my friend Betsy says with conviction. She has paused on the trail, so I pause and look at her. She understands. She k...
    5 years ago
  • Donal Fagan
    Tonto & Flike - I added the 1952 film, Umberto D, to my Youtube TV watch list months ago, and finally watched it last weekend, commercial-free thanks to TCM. The title cha...
    5 years ago
  • Tiny Yellow Teardrop
    The Sunflower Is For Sale - I have decided to sell my Tiny Yellow Teardrop. This is a sad day for me, but I have enjoyed my teardrop trailer for way over a decade and have had some am...
    5 years ago
  • 22 Billion Energy Slaves
    Prodigies of Peace - I’m not sure what to write about. I’ve been stuck in a kind of mental turmoil, my thoughts frozen on the event horizon of a black hole of catastrophe....
    6 years ago
  • Peak Energy
    Twilight In The Desert ? - Bloomberg reports that Matt Simmons may have been right after all - according to data released by Saudi Aramco the Ghawar field appears to have substantial...
    6 years ago
  • Amazon.com: Best Selling Nonfiction Kindle
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    6 years ago
  • Piper Michael
    First Blood - First Blood Our heart goes out to Rep. Steve Scalise, and everybody else who’s become the first blood of what is rapidly becoming Civil War II. We have ar...
    7 years ago
  • Liberation Ecology
    April 20th @ Haverford College. Beyond the Grassroots: Participatory Ecology and Political Praxis - Very excited about this event next month. Please join us! Free, no registration required. Details below. Participatory ecology as movement. Grassroots move...
    7 years ago
  • HRBlock Talk
    IRS tax reform updates under the TCJA: Here’s what to expect - Editor’s Note: We’ll see new forms, updated forms, and some new processes as tax reform changes are implemented by the IRS. The IRS is working on impleme...
    7 years ago
  • TreeHugger
    How to take care of your hair this winter - During cold weather, doing less to your hair will benefit it more.
    7 years ago
  • Star Of Ishtar
    Duality - Happy New Moon in Gemini everyone! Today is a very auspicious time to set clear intent that you speak from highest wisdom – now & always. Gemini moon asks ...
    8 years ago
  • Permaculture Plus Houskeeping
    Table of Contents - Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something. Please check out o...
    8 years ago
  • Off the Grid in Minneapolis
    On Healing the Earth and People - As an American citizen, I find that neither the Democratic or Republican parties say much of anything that resonates with me. Most of what they talk ab...
    8 years ago
  • Jake's Health Solutions
    Creative High School Students Invent Better Light Therapy Device for SAD Sufferers - A team of high school students has invented a new light therapy device that may provide relief for the millions of people who suffer from a seasonal form o...
    8 years ago
  • SurvivalChemistry4Preppers.org
    Easy Survival Medicine HAM Radio DIY Build - Emergency communications have always been integral to medicine and survival. In this video post we’ll be showing you a quick and easy Survival Medicine H...
    9 years ago
  • More Crows than Eagles
    Unnecessariat - I remember AIDS. I’m older than you probably think I am, and I remember what AIDS in America meant in the eighties, when William F. Buckley suggested all “...
    9 years ago
  • reflexiones finales
    Rebellious precrime - At Page 99 Test there is an interesting discusion about just what sort of training manuals should be allowed. Although the discussion in the post is abou...
    10 years ago
  • The Long Ascent
    Why I Use Toilet Paper - On the surface, the answer is trite and obvious, and this may seem like a strange topic, especially for a blog concerned with the "big picture". The timin...
    12 years ago
  • No More Fake News
    THE NAKED FEAR OF HEALTH FREEDOM - THE NAKED FEAR OF HEALTH FREEDOM by Jon Rappoport www.nomorefakenews.com In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s an election year… Usually, when politicians...
    13 years ago
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Upslope Businesses

  • Harvest Right
    Freeze Drying for Our Family Adventures - We love hearing from our customers! “This summer our family set out to make the most of the sunshine here in Utah, hiking the red rocks of Zion, camping ...
    3 weeks ago
  • OIKOS Tree Crops
    Wild Strawberry Fields - When my sister helped me pick wild strawberries at our family farm over 50 years ago, I realized that not everyone likes to be hunched over swatting horse ...
    7 months ago
  • Shopify Blog
    What Are Sticky Prices? Definition & Ecommerce Examples - [image: Three colorful price tags hanging, representing sticky pricing] Sticky prices is the term used to describe prices that stay put even though market ...
    7 months ago
  • Holistic Management International
    Insights Generate Immediate Impact During Texas Grazing School - We’re excited to share the success of our recent 2-day grazing school on August 3rd & 4th, the first in a series of workshops funded by a grant awarded t...
    1 year ago
  • Will Falk
    When I Set the Sweetgrass Down Poetry Reading with April Tierney - I read poems from my collection When I Set the Sweetgrass Down and April read poems from her collection Memory Keeper, as well as new poems she’s written a...
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    2 years ago
  • Pur360 Blog
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    5 years ago
  • ALL Power Labs
    Leave a Positive Trace: Permaculture Action Day with Burning Man - Photo credit: Brooke Porter Photography On Saturday, June 22, the Local Carbon Network joined Burners without Borders, the Permaculture Action Network, a...
    6 years ago
  • LPC Survival
    Independent Lab Testing: Big Berkey® Removes 100% Glyphosate from Water - On February 12, 2019, Mike Adams, director of Consumer Wellness Center Labs (CWC Labs), released results of independent lab testing to show that the Big ...
    6 years ago
  • Pinetree Garden Seeds
    Radish Pods: What to do When a Good Radish Goes to Seed - I discovered radish pods by total accident last season. I was a bit lazy in my gardening maintenance due to travel and some of my radish plants bolted. I L...
    7 years ago
  • Avian Aqua Miser
    Getting your chickens to lay more eggs during winter - [image: Annoyed chicken] If it’s winter in your part of the world, I’m sure that you’ve noticed that you’re not getting as many yummy eggs from your flock ...
    7 years ago
  • Catvocate Blog - The NoBowl Feeding System™
    The NoBowl Feeding System™ has launched in the UK! - We know the United Kingdom is a nation of cat lovers, and we're very proud to introduce The NoBowl Feeding System™ to our friends across the pond – just in...
    8 years ago
  • Harris Seeds
    Pick the Right Pots to Get Healthy Plants - Guest Author: Mark Greene If you started your transplants in small cells or pellets, you may have to "bump them up" into larger plant pots before they ar...
    9 years ago
  • Bountiful Gardens
    60/30/10 Garden Bed Design - If you don’t have very much space or resources to grow a vegetable garden, you can still learn our method on as little as 100 square feet – you can then sc...
    10 years ago
  • Urban Forage Winery & Cider House
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