How Much Free Grant Money Is Available For Home Repair?
A significant number of these stores are not only about mobile electronics any more : in recent times, many have also branched out into home-based theatre parts and installation. Home theaters are one of the latest new trends in home improvement-it’s tough to fight the attract of a production theater quality experience right in the luxury of your own house. For those who many not know, a home-based theatre is basically a mini film theater in your home. If you've got an interest in a larger project, you might probably get sufficient free govt money to build a new addition, an additional lavatory, replace your roof or windows, or things in that general pricing class. Featuring surround sound, big screen Televisions , and more, these theater set-ups supply a step above your standard at home movie-watching experience. Maybe you're an owner of a big multi loft unit building that requires swift mend to insure the safeness of its occupants. There might be renovation grants above many thousands of dollars freely available to get that tenement up to building code standards and save yourself enormous cash in fines.
If you qualify, as many do, you might be breaking ground within a fortnight and watching your property worth rise. Many years back many folk had fundamentally one type of door that they utilised for their front as well as their garage and now the options for both these are unlimited. If you live in a mountain style lodge home, lovely country wood doors are being favored for the garage and the front entrance. An alternative way to boost the front of the house is to switch the front walkway or steps. Now you may use stone, brick or stamped concrete to form a beautiful walkway to the front of your place. Many houses just have some kind of gray concrete that's not terribly appealing.
How much free grant cash is available for house repair? That only relies upon the private desires and wants of the qualified candidate. Do-it-yourself grants are custom-designed to particular requirements on a case by case basis. Whether you need free cash to hire a painting contractor, you want a new roof, or you’d like to build a complete new addition to your house, there might be free central authority cash for you to reach this with. Who qualifies for free grant money? Most house owners do.
Categories: Survival Skill Tags: help, need, situation.
Knowledge Is Food!
Hey Everybody! Hope you’ve all been well since my last guest blog. I know I’ve been busy preparing for Spring gardening—figuring out exactly what I’m going to plant this year. Each year I try to plant something new that I’ve never grown before or something I haven’t grown in a while. As a survival gardener, I think it’s important to know how to successfully grow many different varieties of fruits and vegetables.
I always say that the best skill a person can have when it comes to survival is knowledge. Yes, you can stock pile cans of food, you can have the latest survival gear, you can have a plan of action as to whether you’ll “bug-out” or stay right where you are, but when it comes down to it, a full head of survival knowledge is the best tool a person can have.
Therefore, when it comes to growing my own food, I take advantage of the time I have now to learn how to successfully grow all different kinds of foods so that if I am ever in a “SHTF” situation, I am prepared to grow all kinds of foods in order to survive. They always say “practice makes perfect”. I guess I would say “practice makes you prepared”.
So, by trying new things in my survival garden each year, I feel I am preparing myself as best I can when it comes to growing my own foods. Each different kind of plant needs different attention, if you will, when it comes to growing it and harvesting it. You can’t just throw some seeds in the ground, water, and hope for sunny days. Learning all the little idiosyncrasies of each different plant will come in handy when you’re growing and relying on these fruits and vegetables for survival and not just growing them as a hobby or because you’d rather grow your own foods.
I encourage all of you gardeners out there to challenge your selves to try new things. Don’t get stuck in a repeated routine of only growing a handful of different foods—what if none of those foods grow well in a post “SHTF” scenario? You need to be able to grow many different kinds of fruits and vegetables and the time to start learning how to be successful at this is NOW!
And this doesn’t just go for people gardening now, it goes for anyone interested in survival skills. If you don’t currently garden and grow your own foods, you better start now, because I don’t think any of us are going to be willing to share if you come knocking on our doors!
-Jerry Greenfield
Categories: Emergency Food, green lifestyle, Survival Skills Tags: Emergency, Food, food sources, food supply, Gardening, growing food, knowledge, natural gardening, Preparedness, survival, survival gardening
Salutations From a New Guest Blogger!
Hi Everybody! My name is Jerry Greenfield and I’m a new guest blogger for Survival College. I am an avid survival gardener and I practice (and preach!) many other survivalist and sustainable ways. I think it’s extremely important to be as well prepared as you possibly can for any type of situation. Part of being prepared means being educated.
I have been gardening all my life (I am 57) and know quite a bit about it. Most of my knowledge has to do with relying on what nature provides for us—rather than depending on chemicals and modern means to grow foods. In fact, it probably wasn’t until about 10 years ago that I realized I was in the minority when it came to how I garden. Growing up and learning to grow from my grandmother and mother, the only way we ever gardened was organically. I think it’s strange that we now find ourselves in a situation where many of us need to re-learn how to work with nature.
Luckily for me, I don’t have to re-learn anything. But as an organic gardener and a survivalist, I feel it’s my duty to educate others and share my knowledge and expertise with my fellow man. So, once or twice a month you’ll be seeing a guest post from me, providing a little bit of my knowledge with you, and hopefully helping you learn to be a successful gardener and a prepared individual.
When I’m not gardening or doing something to do with survival preparedness, I enjoy reading, doing a bit of woodworking, and eating my wife’s cooking! I have a blog, Grow Like Crazy, which I try to keep up on, but am not very good about! I am also the “main guy” for My Garden Walk: Protect your Perimeters. I write all the blogs for that site and also keep up with the Tips and Prepper Resources. In addition, I enjoy writing Ezine articles. You can read all my articles by clicking here. And of course, who are you if you don’t have a Facebook account? My personal page is here and my page for Protogrow, an organic fertilizer I promote, is here.
I hope you enjoy my posts, and I’d really like to say thank you to Dwayne and everyone else at Survival College for this opportunity!
Categories: Emergency Food, green lifestyle, Survival Skills Tags: food supply, growing food, natural gardening, organic gardening, survival gardening
Companion Planting Really Does Make a Difference!
Hundreds of years ago, gardeners started putting the pieces together and realizing that certain plants grew better with other plants and that other plants could impair or harm the growth of some plants. Basically, these gardeners started to see that certain plants should be grown together, while other plants should be kept separate.
Gardeners began writing their observations down and discussing them with other gardeners. Eventually, this collective knowledge began to be referred to as companion planting. And knowing something about companion planting can make or break you as a gardener. Just because two different vegetables or fruits might taste good together doesn’t mean they will play well together in the dirt!
Here is a short list of fruits and vegetables and the best companions to plant along with them:
· Corn and sunflowers grow well alongside cantaloupes
· Tomatoes grow well with asparagus and parsley
· Carrots do well with other salad veggies such as lettuce, onions, cucumbers, and radishes
· Pole beans will thrive next to marigolds and radishes
· Bush beans like potatoes and beets
· Pumpkins, like cantaloupes, also grow well with corn
Some combinations to avoid:
· Bush beans and onions-onions can be too potent and can inhibit growth
· Eggplant and potatoes-eggplants are extremely susceptible to the pests potatoes attract
· Garlic and tomatoes-the garlic is too overpowering for the tomato
· And although sunflower does well with corn and cantaloupe, keep it away from potatoes
Companion planting is much like any other gardening technique-there is certainly no specific science to it and it’s not for everyone. However, rather than giving up and throwing your hands in the air if you find your gardening skills are lacking, research companion planting a bit and give it a try-it’s worth a shot!
For more information on companion planting, click here!
Categories: do it yourself, Emergency Food, green lifestyle, Survival Skills Tags: companion planting, fruits and vegetables, gardeners, growing food, organic, survival gardening
I Think I CAN, I Think I CAN!
So you have a garden, and it is doing fantastically, but you can’t help wondering, “What in the world am I going to do with all this food?” There’s the pretty obvious answer: Give it away. But after thinking of this solution, your survival instincts may kick in and you may end up saying to yourself, “But this is my food. I don’t want to just give it away.” I don’t blame you; I wouldn’t want to just give it all away either. So what can you do with all this food? Can it, of course!
Canning has been around for quite some time. The process was originally thought-up by the French baker and brewer, Nicolas Appert, in the early 1800′s as a way to preserve food supplies for Napoleon’s army. Originally, preserved foods were stored in glass jars, but fairly quickly tin cans became the most widely used storage container. However, for the home gardeners needs, glass jars, such as Mason jars, are perfect for storing your extra food!
Each vegetable (or fruit) requires different techniques for canning, so it’s important for “the canner” to do their research and know exactly how to can different varieties. However, once canned (or jarred) the containers can all be stored the same way-in a cool, dry place. Back in the day, cellars were perfect. Nowadays, basements, pantries, and even garages will do the trick! As long as your jars are sealed tightly, most of these preserved foods can last years!
By canning and preserving your extra food, you now have access to this food throughout the colder months of the year. If you are eating seasonally, then you know how sad it is to not be able to taste raspberries in the middle of the winter, for example. By making jam or jelly out of your summer raspberries, and then canning the preserve, you can crack open a jar of homemade raspberry jam/jelly on Christmas morning to have with your toast! How great would that be?
It’s very important to do your research and know exactly what you’re doing. Many communities offer classes or workshops on how to can. If your community does not, then here is a book I would recommend reading and keeping close by as you learn how to can your own foods!
-Jerry Greenfield
Categories: do it yourself, Emergency Food, food dehydration, green lifestyle, Survival Skills Tags: canned foods, canning, food security, food supply, survival food
Are You Eating Genetically Modified Foods Without Even Knowing It?
Do you eat genetically modified foods? Would you really know if you did? The sad truth is, most of us have no idea when and if we’re eating GM foods, because the U.S. Government has done their best to keep that knowledge from us.
“Most Americans simply do not understand that 80% of non-organic supermarket processed foods (basically every product containing soy, corn, canola, cottonseed oil, or sugar beet derivatives) are contaminated with GMOs. While nearly everyone in North America has eaten genetically modified foods, only 26% believe that they have.” [1]
That is startling. How can we not know what we’re eating? There are two answers to this question.
1. Our government, who are in cohorts with large bio-chemical companies like Monsanto, work very hard to keep us ignorant of exactly what is going on with our food.
2. Most of us are either happy in our ignorance or not concerned enough to look into what we are feeding ourselves and our families.
I truly believe that if the information was available, and we did not have to go out of our ways to search for the truth, the majority of us would choose not to eat foods containing GMO’s and would opt for more natural, organic alternatives.
However, because it all boils down to money, and the fact that Monsanto (and other similar companies) have it, our government-the government who is supposed to protect its citizens-continues to work with and on behalf of big agribusiness.
It is sad that we, the constituents of our government, have to take it upon ourselves to protect ourselves from our own government’s interests. WE should be our government’s interests!
The responsibility of protecting ourselves has fallen upon us. The truth is out there. We need to care enough to not only search it out, but act on it. For more information on how to make a difference, please visit http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_21060.cfm.
-Jerry Greenfield
Categories: Emergency Food, green lifestyle, News Tags: food industry, food safety, genetically modified foods, GM Foods, GMOs, government, organic food, organic gardening
