Secret Garden of Survival – How to Grow a Camouflaged Food Forest

Secret Garden of Survival by Rick Austin: A forest garden produces 5x more food per square foot than a traditional garden.
Secret Garden of Survival by Rick Austin: A forest garden produces 5x more food per square foot than a traditional garden.

“Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide– ever. All disguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season!”

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Housing Reclaimed – Sustainable Homes for Next to Nothing

Jessica Kellner, editor of Natural Home and Garden magazine and author of Housing Reclaimed, is pictured in her home made of items destined for the dump.
Jessica Kellner, editor of Natural Home and Garden magazine and author of Housing Reclaimed, is pictured in her home made of items destined for the dump.

“As editor of the Topeka-based magazine Natural, Home & Garden, Jessica Kellner had plenty of stories of families and organizations from across the country who had built their homes from materials that were otherwise destined for the landfill.

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A Place of My Own

A Place of My Own… A Place of My Own Making, by Michael Pollan, the author of four New York Times bestsellers.
A Place of My Own… A Place of My Own Making, by Michael Pollan, the author of four New York Times bestsellers.

“A room of one’s own: is there anybody who hasn’t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn’t turned those soft words over until they’d assumed a habitable shape?

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The Alpha Strategy — Free E-book

Our blog post the other day discussed frugal living. Readers might be interested in Alpha Strategy: The Ultimate Plan for Financial Self-Defense for the Small Investor, a great free ebook that explains in detail how to prepare for uncertain economic times such as those we live in. Living frugally makes it more likely you’ll achieve your dreams.

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