Live Naturally

Tips for a healthier, more pest and weed-free lawn using natural and organic solutions.

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Vinegar is more than just a salad dressing. It is incredibly versatile and can be used for a wide variety of applications from vinaigrette to all purpose household cleaners. In response to several questions I’ve received over the past few months, I wanted to share a few of the more interesting uses for vinegar that [...]

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Learn how to make natural alternatives to store-bought fabric softeners and dryer sheets.

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Call me a prude, but the smell of most commercial household cleaners gives me a massive headache. Obviously I’m not the only person with homemade cleaning products on the brain because the blog post containing my recipe for homemade laundry detergent powder is the most-visited page on this site. Then in November of last year, [...]

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Home canning is enjoying a well-deserved resurgence in recent years, and that leaves a lot of people looking for information on how to can and preserve food at home. While there are foods that can be canned using the fairly basic water bath method, when it comes to recipes that contain low acid foods, meat, [...]

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Could You Survive Life in the Iron Age?

31 January 2012

A few days ago I was sent a link to a BCC documentary that I’d not heard of before. It was a social and anthropological experiment carried out in the late 1970s in England and by all accounts it may well be the first “reality show”. In it, the participants (6 couples and three children) [...]

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Wattle You Know? The Free Fencing, Construction and Erosion Control Method Your Ancestors Never Told You About

27 January 2012

Chances are good that you have never heard the term wattle, but if you are a naturalist, a would-be homesteader or you just like finding ways to improve your property without spending a lot of money doing it, you owe it to yourself to read on.

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