COUNTRYSIDE is the truly original country magazine (established 1917) serving that branch of the Voluntary Simplicity movement seeking greater self-reliance (homesteading), with emphasis on home food production. This includes gardening, small-scale livestock, cooking, food preservation, resource conservation, recycling, frugality, money management, alternative energy, old-time skills, home business, and much more. COUNTRYSIDE features reader-written personal experiences and photos straight out of family albums, making each issue just like a long letter from friends who are living the good life, beyond the sidewalks.

I  found these doing a Google search on "heirloom seeds"

http://www.seedsavers.org/

http://www.rareseeds.com/

http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/main_vegies.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2043809_find-heirloom-garden-seed.html?ref=fuel

I found these doing a Google search on "none not hybrid seeds"

http://www.arkinstitute.com/index.htm

http://www.heirloomseeds.com/

While shopping at Ozark Natural Foods grocery store in April 2008  I visited a display outside the store of starter plants grown from heirloom seeds, all natural and organically grown.  The Couple who had grown the certified naturally grown starter plants and displayed them in their nicely done tent gave me some literature I want to share with you.  Read the "Certified Naturally Grown" statement at www.naturallygrown.org

CERTIFIED NATURALLY GROWN SEED SOURCES 2007

Here are two magazines that may interest you.  I subscribed to them during all the 18 years I was gardening (before I turned to writing).  You have to see my http://www.arkhaven.org/about_author.htm page to get the whole story there.

http://www.organicgardeningmagazine.co.uk/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/

Here are some links I found using this search word phrase: "Self Sufficient Living"

http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/slv.html

http://www.simpleselfsufficientliving.com/

http://www.infography.com/content/022977990574.html

http://www.self-sufficient-life.com/

 

The natural and organic method (used for thousands of years) is the only way you can garden if/when we can no longer buy chemicals, fertilizers, and gasoline.

Ready Made Resources will be glad to assist you in designing an emergency power supplies and emergency preparedness supplies. We can also assist you in preparing an emergency food supply for your family, a bug out bag or water filter. In fact if you have any concern about your readiness to survive a disaster or become more independant, please don't hesitate to call us and ask about any one of our services.

Plan. Prepare. Preserve. At Ready Made Resources, we can help you accomplish all three! Whether it’s setting up a complete grid-tie or non grid-tie solar system, getting back to the basics of homestead living, or preparing you for unexpected emergencies, we can help supply you and your family with the provisions for making that possible.

Independent Discount & Salvage Grocery Store Directory  This page is a State by State U.S. Discount and Salvage Grocery Store Directory. We've added this, as it was handed down to us, from another discount store owner. He waded through thousands of web pages to find these stores and verified most of them by telephone. Please enjoy the directory. Please, submit any changes or stores we have not listed via our contact form. Some people wonder: What is a discount grocer? What is a salvage grocery store? Why is there not an independent discount grocery store directory? As I have searched for other discount groceries and salvage grocery stores they have been lumped in with the hundreds of grocery stores in the yellow pages and online yellow pages. For those wondering what is a discount grocery store? Some are discount in name only as that is what they call themselves. Others are a grocery that through various contracts and sources liquidate overstocks and salvage groceries. These sell in their stores at discounts ranging from 30% to 50% off what the same item would sell for in your local supermarket. Sometimes these are no frills stores that resemble a warehouse more than a store, sometimes not. For those wondering what is a salvage grocery store? They are a store that usually sells all the groceries returned by a supermarket to their warehouse. Why were they returned? Sometimes due to a case getting dropped or punctured which ruins one or two cans or boxes. Sometimes due to a manufacturer overestimating how many of an item to produce. Sometimes due to a label change or warehouse closing. For whatever reason these excess goods must be sold. Items whose packaging is compromised are discarded and the rest sent out by the truckload to end up for sale at your local salvage grocery store. CLICK HERE TO SEE LISTING OF STORES BY STATE

Please share your favorite websites and book with us.  I got an email recommending this book.

Book Description
The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition includes 150 new full color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour the father of the back to basics movement explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

About the Author
John Seymour is the author of over 40 books, including The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency, The Forgotten Arts and Crafts, and has made numerous movies and radio programs devoted to rural matters, self-sufficiency, and the environment.

This link is to another book by this author: http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780751364422,00.html

For an interesting insight into the type of pest control that was practiced during the time of Joseph, researchers refer to a quote by the 11th century Hebrew Bible commentator Rashi, who wrote: "And people put amongst the grain some of the earth of the place, and this prevents it from decaying." They believe Rashi was "referring to a method by which fine sand is added to the grain. The grains of sand scratch the hard covering that surrounds the body of the beetle, and make it dry up and die. This method is still used today by various African tribes, and we can assume that it was sufficiently effective to exterminate a pest that had just arrived in the region, like the lesser grain borer."

Food Will Be King

an advertisement with a video

Ezekiel 7:19

19 ‘They will throw their silver into the streets,

And their gold will be like refuse;

Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them

In the day of the wrath of the LORD;

They will not satisfy their souls,

Nor fill their stomachs,

Because it became their stumbling block of iniquity.

Organic Compost Enthusiast and Organic Growers

Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/GardensFromEden and watch the video

Are we are in the last days?  Is the Day of Wrath soon to come upon the world???

If we know for a fact that these days are soon to be upon us, and people will be throwing gold into the streets and are dying for food, then there are four bible principals about food that we have to take into consideration. 

Do we use the prophecies as a warning like the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had that Daniel interpreted?  Do we get ready for the coming prophesied food shortages by starting to grow our own food?

OR

Do we wait to hear from God to send us into hiding, to our own Brook Cherith like He told Elijah where God fed him with ravens bring him meat?

OR

Do we grow food and allow God to keep it producing over and over, where it never becomes empty like God did for Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath   whose tiny amount of oil just kept filling all the jars she brought to him.

Or

Do we do nothing and just hope for Manna from heaven to fall?

I personally chose to grow my own food and pray for the Rapture to come and take me out of here.  But I would want to leave something behind for the Tribulation Saints that will miss the church being taken into the clouds with Jesus.  They will need to be supplied spiritual and physical needs to be met, because there will be no jobs or a way to buy food for those who don’t take the mark of the Beast

My church is growing a garden that will help feed the poor in my county.  I would pray that your church would do the same.  That is why we have developed the “Garden of Eden” GrowSoxx technology, an all encompassing easy to build Greenhouse and Organic Compost Garden .

Here is the most advanced growing system on the planet.  Tomatoes have produced plants of 8 feet and over 100 lbs of tomatoes each plant.  We have a grower in Florida using 250,000 feet of our GrowSoxx and is producing enough strawberries for all the Publix Supermarkets in Florida .  I am a Christian who God has made the National Sales Rep for this company and have incorporated the technology into my Greenhouse design where you get 200 ft of GrowSoxx filled with Organic Compost with a PH of 6.9 A complete Greenhouse with 10’X40 ft dimensions cost only $1,995.00.  This is a complete eco sustainable Organic Growing System like no other in the world. Three years of growing….three crops for a one time investment.

We were wondering if you would like to buy one for your own consumption or maybe do what many Organic food lovers are already doing.  Maybe you would like to sell them for a commission in your local area and start a CO-OP where all the churches and other organizations and private growers can buy a system and sell the produce at a locally set up Organic farmers market, selling only organic locally grown food.  You can more than double your money and eat fresh organic food all year if you live in the south.  You can, preserve the rest by canning if you live up north.

We got to bring awareness to the people about growing and eating these vital nutrient rich foods.

Reply to  saint@asoldierofGod.com  if you want all the information on how to become involved with this amazing growing technology

Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/GardensFromEden and watch the video

This website may be of interest to you.  Just click on the icon to go to this blog.

Websites of Interest

James M. McCanney, M.S. (Physics)

Alternative Economical Building Construction

  Monolithic Dome Institute 

Cheap, strong, fast construction...and a business to go into

A 30 foot yurt and a 24 foot yurt connected by a dining room

http://coloradoyurt.proxy.calltoday.ws/new2007/home.php

Midwest Earth Builders specializes in construction that incorporates green building materials, Earth Blocks, and energy efficient design.  Whether you are interested in a new home, remodel, addition, or shop, built with natural and/or standard materials, we can develop and complete your project. MEB is the Midwest leader in Compressed Earth Block (CEB) construction.  CEBs are a cost-competitive alternative to conventional building that provides you with the benefit of long-term energy savings.  When building with earth blocks, you are creating a home that is environmentally sensitive and has many of these other benefits. Structural  Load-Bearing Capacity.

http://www.midwestearthbuilders.com/EarthBlocks.html

Earth Block Machines built by:

http://www.adobemachine.com 

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/fwehman/index.html 

http://www.ferncometal.com/products.htm

YouTube videos of many types of earth Block Machines.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Earth+Block+machines+&aq=f