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8 Forgotten Ways Your Great-Grandparents Survived Hard Times

8 Forgotten Ways Your Great-Grandparents Survived Hard Times

One thing I know for certain. Previous generations survived hard times because they chose to spend money wisely. The key was never spending more than you earned. And now, as  I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed that life has lots of challenges ...

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3 Forgotten Ways The Pioneers Built Fires Without Wood

3 Forgotten Ways The Pioneers Built Fires Without Wood

I’m fortunate to call the windswept prairie of the Great Plains my home. If you get out of farm country, it’s just grass as far as you can see. In fact, there are still places nearly unchanged since pioneers first ...

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7 Ways The Old-Timers Knew It Was Time To Tap

7 Ways The Old-Timers Knew It Was Time To Tap

Tapping trees to make syrup is an annual late-winter-into-spring tradition for many homesteaders. One of the keys to a successful syruping season is timing, and as is true with many homesteading activities, timing is all about the weather. Nowadays, we ...

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Forgotten Foods The Pioneers Ate Midwinter

Forgotten Foods The Pioneers Ate Midwinter

In our modern kitchens, we hardly feel the passing of the seasons. We have the luxury of New Zealand apples, Chilean grapes and Hawaiian pineapple, all cheap and plentiful even in January. For our ancestors, winter meals were a very ...

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Cherokee Medicine Benefits For Surviving Off-The-Grid

Cherokee Medicine Benefits For Surviving Off-The-Grid

According to the legend, all creation was one at one time. Plants, fishes, animals, humankind and even weather elements like the wind could communicate with each other. Everything worked together in harmony. All these elements submitted themselves with the goal ...

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Amish People And Amish Life: Six Great “Life Lessons” We Should Learn

Amish People And Amish Life: Six Great “Life Lessons” We Should Learn

Visitors to my neighborhood in central Maine are often startled by the presence of Amish people.  Locals, though, are accustomed to the yellow road signs with black silhouettes of horse-drawn buggies, tracks of bicycle tires and horse hooves in the ...

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Use Honey To Heal Summertime Cuts and Scrapes

Use Honey To Heal Summertime Cuts and Scrapes

Honey is one of nature’s most miraculous dressings for burns, ulcers, and even open wounds. The good news is that you can use honey to heal. The best news is that honey is very easy to use. Now that the ...

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