Face black with soot, Victoria Ranua strides across a Scott County... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (phadraigin) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/704 Mon, 12 May 2008 09:58:28 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/680/t/Great-HUGE-Gardening-Seed-Catalog-Source.html
This looks like a very cool site that is still under construction. It addresses all kinds of sustainable living and homesteading topics.

Check it out:

http://www.theruralindependent.com/gardening-info-and-supplies/seed-catalogs/
]]> feeds@yuku.com (gone country) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/680 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:01:59 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/513/t/the-commons.html
What became of the Commons in our world? The economy grew when everyone laid claim to the Commons and started selling it to each other. The economy is pure superstition. Call it a god-o-meter and the scientists would attack it with a hairpin to deflate it. But the economy! Those white men with degrees in business suits might as well be Aztec priests,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (zombans) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/513 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:31:07 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/512/t/permaculture-design-course-amp-books.html Permaculture Design Course in Stelle, Illinois, in August. Has anyone else taken a PDC? Comments? Advice?

The textbooks for this course are Intro to Permaculture by Mollison & Slay, and Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway. We've read both & they're both great--Gaia's Garden is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Hakim Baker) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/512 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:23:39 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/517/t/Propane-refrigerators-and-common-sense-.html First I Screamed....Then I Swore

comments are good, too ]]> feeds@yuku.com (debrr(d)) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/517 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:34:53 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/519/t/farm-life-in-the-50-s.html cyanidehole.blogspot.com/...title.html

On Being a Farm Boy

Part of this essay appeared in The Iowan (Fall, 199 .
That material is used here with permission.


Back in the 1950s, when I was a tyke, farmers banded... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (silverspringwoman) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/519 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:11:22 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/520/t/sustainability-article.html www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/851


excerpt:
My aim in this essay is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (based on a review of the literature) to help clarify the characteristics of a durable society.

The essence of the term sustainable is simple... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (silverspringwoman) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/520 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:53:53 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/516/t/Composting.html
I've started a compost heap in my backyard. I got sick of throwing away all my food scraps; what a waste! Now I'm generating soil.

I've read the basics. Anybody here got some tips they've been dying to share?

--Dan ]]> feeds@yuku.com (danth78) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/516 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:15 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/521/t/more-chicks.html feeds@yuku.com (silverspringwoman) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/521 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:51:48 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/515/t/Grow-your-own-house.html www.archinode.com/bienal02.html
www.geocities.com/heartla...69/ent.htm
www.rainforestinfo.org.au...eachng.htm feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/515 Thu, 18 May 2006 17:53:53 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/510/t/Rabbits.html
Per "The Self-Sufficient Suburban Garden", 1 buck and 2 does can produce as much as 2-3 lbs of meat per week... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jhereg) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/510 Fri, 12 May 2006 06:17:18 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/509/t/The-business-of-permaculture.html feeds@yuku.com (susiogranjero) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/509 Fri, 05 May 2006 20:56:46 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/518/t/Know-any-folks-in-the-Northwest-.html
I'm currently feeling like I'm wasting what precious time I have to prepare for "TEOTWAWKI" and in general just feeling like I'm living a pretty boring life here in North Carolina, where I just came to about three weeks ago. I'd really like to get way the hell away from my family for a while and possibly return, but right now I cant deal with the negative opposition to everything I believe in when I need to learn some down - to - earth skills and live a day... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (susiogranjero) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/518 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:47:15 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/514/t/-quot-Self-sufficiency-vs-Community-sufficiency-quot-.html
Sorry, but I strongly disagree with this one.

It's not that community-sufficiency is a bad idea; it's that ol' question of: What happens if your relationship to the community somehow gets fucked, yet are unable to fend for yourself without the help of the community? The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (elnoyle(d)) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/514 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:43:27 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/522/t/flood-pics.html

Here are some pics, if I can get this thing to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (silverspringwoman) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/522 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:14:31 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/523/t/Simple-living.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living ]]> feeds@yuku.com (nirvana2013) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/523 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:32:52 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/511/t/guerilla-gardening.html www.guerrillagardening.org/ ]]> feeds@yuku.com (silverspringwoman) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/511 Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:24:42 GMT http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/524/t/Chia.html
Anyway, I've recently found out that Chia seeds are high in both calories and protein and formed one of the core nutrional foods of the Aztecs. This makes me more than a little interested in trying to grow it, but I haven't found much information about growing it, and nothing about growing it as a "garden" vegetable(ie somewhere between multi acreage and growing for... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (jhereg) http://dropout50394.yuku.com/topic/524 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:44:16 GMT