Divorce-Proof Your Marriage Before You Say “I Do” – Book Review, Chapter One
Wouldn’t it be nice to divorce-proof your marriage? We’ll here’s a book that suggests this isn’t a shot in the dark, but something that can be accomplished if you know what you’re aiming for and take aim deliberately. Because this is such a serious topic – who goes into marriage lightly? – I’m going to [...]
POOpeas Organic Fertilizer for House Plants – Product Review
If you’re interested in an organic fertilizer for house plants, I’m here to give you the straight poop about a good product that will make your house plants sit up and take notice. It’s called POOpeas, and don’t let the name fool you, it works very well to perk up plants that seem [...]
Home Reference Library – The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice
The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging, by Brion Toss, is an important volume in our home reference library. I acquired this book when we were building our largest sailboat, Selkie. It proved to be a valuable resource when sailing, but has also come in handy many times on the [...]
Review – Self Sufficiency: A Complete Guide (etc.)
I’ve previously reviewed The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants. I now turn to Self Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving your Harvest, Raising Animals and More!, edited by Abigail R. Ghehring. As before, we’ve used the book for a while, evaluating it in a couple of different ways. While [...]
Review – The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants
I recently acquired The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, by the Department of the Army from Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. This is a good little book. I suspect Skyhorse Publishing has augmented the design and layout of the original publication considerably, creating a more attractive, user friendly civilian version. However, the title is misleading. This [...]
Product Reviews Revisited
We’ve completed a number of reviews here at Self Reliance Works, and it’s time to take another look at some of them. We’re proud to say that anything we review is presented as realistically and honestly as we know how. If we don’t like something, we’ll give you good reason why. If we make a [...]
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