New Self Reliance & Preparedness Forum

I hadn't seen this as it made the rounds before. I'll go check it out! Say, you might ask Martfuncher to post allllllll the comments on the gardening thread over there, and Sierra to post the silver info on your site. Great information from both.

And advice on a good mill for the sprouts.

Thanks.
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Lisa C.

http://www.women4ronpaul....

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Self Reliance & Preparedness Forums

Many thanks for all that have signed up so far! Now the rest of you need to sign up ;-)

Please check it out and help me get it going with the talent and knowledge I know you all have! Thanks

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New Freelanders
Self Reliance Forum

I already learned how to make your own fuel - peat.
Hope the forum grows.

that Turner Classic Movies are playing movies for our preparation and the schedulers are closet RP supporters. Recently they have played a lot of "political" movies. Last month they ran "A Man For All Seasons". Today I watched a great old movie that made me think of the forum here called Paulville. The movie was "Our Daily Bread" made in 1934. It was VERY GOOD as well as insightful. It was about many people out of work looking for a place to live. A land owner allowed them to build their own community and they all worked together, using their individual talents to create a community. It was eerily ominous. Then, after that movie, was one about the revolutionaries. Didn't get to watch it but, wow, seems like someone over there is in touch with RP and today's challenges.

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"I have once heard that the ability to resist temptation is the truest measure of a mans character."

Dustin Hoffman to Steve McQueen
"Papillion"

.. the first line of defense (and offense) against government encroachments on freedom and liberty. =)

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All you folks are the kind of folks I need over there helping to get the information flowing. I see some of you have signed up thanks! Let the knowledge flow...

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. Patrick Henry

I have been doing a lot of self reliant things for many years, and a lot of people come to me for advice. We live a long ways from town, and grow most of our food. We live off the grid, heat and cook with wood, propane refridgerator. I took a 3 year course on herbal medicine and botany when I was in my early 20s, and have been studying it since then too. I grow and pick wild, most of the herbs, and make all our medicines.We have a compost toilet, and built our own home (that is ongoing, very ongoing). We built a wood fired outdoor clay/brick oven for bread baking, which is very handy. Will bake 25 loaves at a time. We are still a long ways to go for total self sufficiency, as we don't have enough solar for our well water, so the gas is getting very expensive for generator for the well. Want a solar system, but probably because of money will go for a rainwater collection, which isn' t as good here, because of only 10 inches of rain a year. Not enough for the garden, but we don't use much water the rest of the year. I have a very part time home business, and rarely have to leave but my husband has to travel a distance sometimes to work in a truck, which uses a lot of diesel. Today, I canned butter because we don't have enough solar for the freezer to work in the spring and summer, and I am putting the extra eggs into storage, dipping in melted lard, and putting with salt in buckets, for winter when they don't lay.

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Any other Marylanders in here? We need to stick together!

The Retrocon
Hope for America, Ron Paul for President in 2008!

bump for a good post!

"I have once heard that the ability to resist temptation is the truest measure of a mans character."

Dustin Hoffman to Steve McQueen
"Papillion"

That is one reason I set up Chaaps International.
Chaaps is a way for people to connect with others for goods or services without paying barter fees or any fees. If you want to see what we have set up so far: www.chaapsinternational.c...
We have a way to go to get things together but any input would be great.

I look forward with great interest to seeing all the information that gets posted here, Hawkiye.

One overlooked factor that some people have alluded to in other, similar threads is the building of contacts and networks with others, both those with similar interests and goals far and wide (as here), and also with one's immediate neighbors. For example, just by keeping my eyes open and approaching others in my area, I have a number of neighbors who supply me with raw (goat) milk, fresh home-grown eggs, chicken and honey. I, in turn, supply them with some garden produce and also wild berry jams and jellies that I make and sell on the side. One neighbor does not raise anything, but is an excellent mechanic. These contacts are valuable, and will be invaluable if truly bad times descend on us.