Everything about food. Growing, storing, buying, preserving, procuring, hunting, eating, etc.
This is the ninth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter again covers diet on multiple levels and how it relates to inner peace and relative harmony.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 9
I’ve been thinking about what’s been said so far and I thought it [...]
This is the eighth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter highlights several different diet techniques that could best suit your lifestyle and goals for weight loss.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 8
Now where was I? Diet, right… Today I think we [...]
This is another great set of tips from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob discusses the optimal backpacking setup.
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My standard list of backpacking gear has changed very little in the past twenty years.
I favor fairly heavy leather boots [...]
This is the seventh chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World, for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter addresses diet, and the practice of eating with gratitude.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 7
We’ve all heard the phrase, “You are what you eat.” You’ve probably also heard, “As a [...]
Celine Kuklowsky of Dr. Pop Blog posted this inspiring article about the growth of community in the face of hardship and urban collapse in Detroit.
This article is a sample of a topic JustLive will be focusing on some in the near future — stories of individual and community resilience in times of economic and natural [...]
Invisible Molotov offers up this tasty PDF, Black Market Brews: Introductory guide to home brewing for fun and profit by Kevin Dean and Xaq Fixx.
Brewing is a tradition that stems back thousands of years. Some anthropologists suggest that it was beer, and not bread, that led to the birth of agriculture. Homebrewing is the art [...]
A new wood burning stove invention powered by a thermoelectric generator, will have the ability to convert waste heat from fire to electricity. The inventors say their BioLite stove can burn a wide variety of biomass fuels from wood, pine cones and underbrush to pellets, rice husks and even dung. The BioLite burning process performs [...]
A great website LocalHarvest, has tools to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area. One of the features the site offers is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which is a great way to find a local farmer to buy seasonal food from.
Here is a basic overview listed on [...]
Nancy Wolcott at Backwoods Home Magazine has written a diverse, practical, and useful set of methods for people living in apartments, condos, or small houses without significant yard-space, to become more self-sufficient in the here-and-now.
You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can [...]
Guerrilla Gardening, is a growing method environmental activists are using, in order to take back abandoned pieces of land, and either beautify it or grow food. This is an example of how individuals, without the permission of the state, can take action in a productive manner that benefits the community as a whole. Among the [...]
Just because you’re short on space, doesn’t mean you have to be short on home-grown produce. The upside-down planter is a low-maintenance, small-footprint method of growing tomatoes and similar plants.
The links below cover different ways to construct these DIY planters, in different sizes, shapes, and looks. Of course, if you’d rather buy one pre-made, there [...]
This is another very very useful write-up from my online buddy, Bob. A seasoned adventurer and backpacker; he discusses the pros and cons of various backpacking stoves, fuels, and techniques.
He also does a side-by-side comparison of the time it takes to boil water in various weather conditions, relative to a normal kitchen range.
Very informative [...]
This is another great instructional from my online buddy, Bob. His first how-to appearing on JustLive was Making Cheese the Easy Way.
Bob is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent. His insight and experience in all things DIY is admirable. On that note, here’s his recipe for homemade [...]
An online buddy of mine – we’ll call him Bob (and he’ll be showing up in posts here on a frequent basis) – is a genuinely self-sufficient guy. He lives off the grid, and is kind enough to share his methods and techniques for all things grid-less with those of us who aren’t quite at his level [...]
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