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Preparedness Without Fear: The Starting Checklist
Preparedness Without Fear: The Starting Checklist A calm, practical place to begin. This is the order I would work through, building a little at a time so preparedness lowers anxiety instead of fe...
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Fall Prep Checklist Skills Download No. 4. A practical checklist for getting the land, cabin, tools, woodpile, and stores ready before freeze-up. Start earlier than you think, and winter will be a...
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Appalachian Foraging Calendar A practical season-by-season guide to the wild foods of Appalachia. Keep it nearby as you learn what to watch for, when to harvest, and how to make better use of the ...
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Boreal Foraging Calendar A practical season-by-season guide to the wild foods available in the boreal forest. Use it to learn what to watch for, when to harvest, and how to make the most of each s...
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Reading a Site Before You Build
What the ground, the water, and the tree line tell you before the first stake goes in. Before the first stake goes in, the land has already told you a great deal. This guide explains how to read t...
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Foundation and framing are where a cabin either earns its strength or stores up problems for later. Volume 1 covers the decisions that keep it square, dry, and solid before the walls make those ch...
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Choosing an Axe That Will Outlive You
What separates an axe worth keeping for a lifetime from one that ends up forgotten in the shed. DOWNLOAD HERE
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Hand Tool Primer — Skills Download No. 1 You don't need a lot of tools to build something that lasts. You need the right ones, and you need to know them well enough that they become an extension ...
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Hi, welcome back to the cabin. I finally wrote my first book. If you've followed my journey for the last ten years, you know that I've had many ups and downs throughout my life. One of the "ups" w...
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