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Who Wants Seconds? Winner Announced

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Miscellaneous
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...us this book to share with you all. We’ve also enjoyed seeing how you all self-identify. Eating has become such a complex, even fraught activity. My grandmother would boggle at discussions like this, I suspect. I don’t think she even knew the word vegan. Since we’ve heard from you all, we’ll share our preferences: We eat mostly vegetarian, but will eat meat if it comes from an impeccable source. Preferably we will actually know the farmer. This k...

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A Primitive Bow Workshop

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Preparedness
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...lief to spend a Saturday carving primitive bows in a workshop led by local self-reliance expert Christopher Nyerges. Kelly and I have been into archery for many years, off and on, but we’ve never tried to make our own bow. Root Simple pal John Zapf carves a bow to match that stylish hat A bow seems like a simple device until you try to make one that will work repeatedly without breaking. A bow is actually a very complicated tool, something that sh...

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Analysis Paralysis

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Design, Thoughtstylings
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...out a bit too small so I went back to SketchUp and re-sized the plans. My self imposed deadline worked. Within a few hours I had the beds that I wanted and was very pleased with the results. The analysis paralysis spell was broken. What had been a concept on a computer screen become reality in short order. It felt good. Sometimes life is a struggle, but increasingly I feel the need to build more and struggle less. No more neighborhood council mee...

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What the Internet Will Look Like After the Zombie Apocalypse

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Water and Power
...as ten miles with a stock router and no boost in power. And the network is self healing. If one router goes out the other routers take on the traffic. For more info on how to set up a network like this see www.broadband-hamnet.org. or watch this series of videos. There’s also a free e-Book: Wireless Networking in the Developing World. Cat photo kidding aside, this relatively simply hack has potential to help a lot of people. This post was inspired...

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How to Deal with Extremely Root Bound Plants

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Gardening, How-to, Mistakes
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...r pseudo-pot of themselves. In this case, you have to be ruthless. Get yourself a sharp knife and make long vertical cuts down the sides of the root ball–how many depends on the size of plant, and what you think is best, but I find I usually make 3 to 5 cuts. These cuts do violence to the roots, but will allow new root growth at the cut sites, giving the plant a chance to spread its roots out in your garden’s soil, instead of trying to live within...

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