Save Our Skills!

So I haven't been on this website in forever because I have been to busy with my college slave work. but have been lurking around other sites for information.

Anyway I want to know who grows their own food, makes the daily "essentials", and other survivalist/DiY stuff. I've been looking into growing veggies and herbs as well as raising chickens and quail. I'm actually pretty interested in making my own tooth paste and deodorant (I'll post some links and pictures if I actually try)

So for anyone who is interested I'll be posting up some pretty rad resources
just to start off:
Learn about poultry of all kinds. (if you're into meat/animal products, If not look at some of the cool pictures of chickens not being raised in battery cages) http://www.backyardchickens.com/
Learn about tons of DiY skills and other misc. stuff http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/

Anyway I'm off to knock out two of my finals wish me luck.

 

Thanks for the luck

In return more links with useful information

If you have been living under a rock for the last few decades Abbie Hoffman happened to write a book with a bunch of useful skills and with the power of the world wide web it has been turned into a wiki. Since nobody can cover the whole site in one link...here is the one about growing veggies and raising animals and such. http://wiki.stealthiswiki.org/wiki/Farm_It

If you don't feel like ripping of your local mega-corp for a couple bucks worth of seeds (they are in little paper packets and cost about $1) there are most likely seed swaps in your area you just gotta look a little bit.

I'm sure this website is of some help/inspiration. get in touch if there is one local and you have questions, or if you're that awesome start your own group and do a little of that "helping the community" get some neighbors eating some non-treated veggies, save on that grocery bill
http://www.foodnotlawns.net/

and Jack as for the Deodorant here is a blog that some chick runs from out west that has a lot more than a really awesome quail hutch. http://suburbansustainability.wordpress ... deodorant/

since I seem to understand that men smell (alot) worse than women just add some chunks of bricks, ground up concrete, and broken glass to her recipe and you'll be ready to tackle the Florida death humidity.
in all seriousness here is some more DiY Deo
http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/vie ... d=5568&p=1

In other news since it's the end of the semester here and everyone is moving out and they have rolled in some industrial strength Dumpsters instead of the little trailer cart raccoon cradles they typically use me and my friend are gonna go digging through to see what we can find at the end of the week.