For the whole year of 2021, I am challenging myself. I am going to learn 52 new self reliant skills throughout the year. Yes, that’s one new skill every week! I’m calling it the “Self Reliant Skill of the Week”. And I hope you’ll follow along!
I am going to be posting a new post here every week with the Self Reliant Skill of the Week, and a video of the results on my YouTube channel. It will be announced on Friday by roughly 5:00 pm MT on my Facebook page. Follow me there to get the reminders!
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I hope you’ll follow along on my journey. I’ve been homesteading for 3 years, but there is always something new to learn!
I am especially excited about learning all of the old-fashioned, vintage skills. The ones that helped our grandparents get through hard times, like The Great Depression.
Self reliance is learning to do things on your own, to be independent. My goal is to lessen my dependence on the grocery stores, to grow and make a lot of what we consume here on the farm. To make our own income from our land. To be prepared for whatever life throws at us.
I have always been drawn to living simply. In fact, I sometimes joke that I was born a generation or two too late. My mother was born during The Great Depression, so she passed on a lot of her frugality to me. She always had a food storage, reused things that she could, and saved as much money as she could.
I believe that these vintage skills are too valuable to let slip away. So I’m embracing them! This is going to be a fun experience for me, and I think it will be fun for you too. I sincerely hope you’ll consider joining me in learning these “new” self reliant skills. Let’s do this together!
There are a lot of rumors going around about a potential food shortage coming. And while I’m not going to say that I’m sure of it, I have been doing my best to prepare for it. I actually have been for years. I believe that a good way to prepare for any kind of food …
For last week’s Self Reliant Skill of the Week, I showed you how to make lamb’s quarters pesto in case you didn’t have any pasta sauce. Well, what if it’s the other way around, and you don’t have any pasta? This is all about how you an make your own homemade pasta, and avoid a …
I feel very strongly that everyone should learn about the weeds that grow in their area. There are lots of weeds that are edible, with some even more nutritious than the plants we grow in our gardens! Today, for the Self Reliant Skill of the Week, we’re going to make lamb’s quarters pesto. Lamb’s quarters …
I have always wanted to make cheese. But I was always intimidated by it! I don’t know why, though. After doing a lot of research, I’ve found that it’s actually pretty easy. Today I’m going to share my experience with my first time making cheese without rennet. Traditional cheese making involves using rennet, which is …
I went to my fridge to make a sandwich – only to find we were out of mayonnaise! So I decided to make homemade mayonnaise for the first time. For my Self Reliant Skill of the Week, I’m showing you how I made this easy homemade mayonnaise from scratch. I threw together a recipe based …
If you are getting lots of eggs from your chickens, you might be wondering what to do with them all. Your family is probably tired of eating plain eggs all the time, right? Why not try switching it up a bit and try making these easy pickled eggs? Normal hard boiled eggs only last in …
This time of year, most of our yards are abloom with pretty yellow flowers. While some may hate to see the “dreaded” dandelion, others embrace them. If your yard is littered with these dainty flowers, why not make something useful from them? It’s so easy to make dandelion jelly from the dandelions in your yard, …
If you’ve been here for any amount of time, you should know that I’m a bit of a prepper. I like to be prepared for all of life’s what-if’s. One of the things that I think everyone should have in their emergency bag is char cloth. But I’ve never made any! So, for this week’s …
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Have you ever wanted to try making soap the way your grandma used to? I’ve wanted to for a long time. After all, what’s a self-reliant person supposed to wash themselves with? So I decided that for this episode of the Self Reliant Skill of the Week, I was going to make soap from homemade …
If you’re trying to be more self reliant, and watch what your family eats, you might want to make your own homemade ketchup. While ketchup from the store is cheap, it’s really NOT healthy. And making your own ketchup is super easy! For this episode of the Self Reliant Skill of the Week, I made …
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