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How To Make Birch Tar

Good survival is all about metabolic efficiency (expending your calories wisely), and considering the ease with which it can be collected and processed, Birch Tar is ideal! Here is the procedure for extracting this wondrous sticky substance that can, in

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How To Make Homemade First Aid Antiseptic Ointment

If you’ve been prepping at all or plan to begin, your first aid kit should be of utmost importance. And if you like to make stuff yourself, you’re going to love this all-natural product that you can easily make at

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How To Make A Homemade Wasp Trap For Pennies

Ok… this is kind of gross, but clearly it works. Once the wasps go in the bottle they can’t figure out how to get out so they get trapped and die. This will minimize wasps, but the only way to eliminate

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DIY Solar Powered Washing Machine

This is awesome! A team of students from the École Supérieure d’ Art d’ Aix-en-Provence have developed this solar-powered washing machine, using bicycle tires, bamboo, a recycled electric motor and a solar panel. If you’re a DIY’er, you really need

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How To Make Your Own Rain Barrel For $40

This DIY rain barrel costs less than $100 and works just as well as the expensive one you can buy. It’s pretty easy to build your own rain barrels from plastic drums or trash cans. Get complete how-to instructions and

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10 Uses For Wood Ash

Before you dispose of those wood ashes sitting in your fireplace or your wood burning stove, try using your wood ash these 10 different ways: 1.   Use wood ash to add nutrients to your compost. Contains potash and calcium

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How to Make A Solar Powered Water Pump for Water Barrels

If you have a rain collecting water barrel system or planning on having one, you’re going to love this. This couple got tired of filling up buckets and carrying them all over, so they built a solar powered water pump

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How To Make A Swamp Cooler Using A Bucket

Swamp coolers (also known as evaporative coolers) work on the principle of a hot, dry summer day and cool water. Hot, dry air is passed through a membrane of flowing water. The resultant air is now filled with moisture. This

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26 Steps To Self Sufficiency

If you want to become more self sufficient, then you should start following these 26 steps to living a more self sufficient lifestyle. Start with one or two things and expand your skills from there. There’s a saying that goes,

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How To Build A Wood Burning Cook Stove From A Steel Barrel

This is new to me, but maybe you are familiar with wood heaters made from steel barrels. Here is a tutorial of how to make a wood cook stove from a barrel. An effort has been made to keep it

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