On Moving

In my adult life I’ve moved seven times; two of those as a family with a child. Averaged out, that’s once every three years! Ugh. No wonder I despise the process so much. Each time I move, I dislike it more and more. (I say as I’m breaking from unpacking.) It seems as though we’ve [...]

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February Planner

  So many of us are working our way toward a more self-sufficient lifestyle. With that in mind we here at NDiN wanted to share some general guidelines of what to plan for on a monthly basis. Whether you’re a gardener, a beekeeper, a forager, or you keep animals, hopefully our monthly guides will help you [...]

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Being Prepared for the Weather

We used to live in Cincinnati when we were younger and I always thought it was interesting that there would be a run on the grocery stores before a big snow storm.  People would snatch up all the bread and milk. I always thought it was funny, I always wondered what exactly people were going [...]

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November Planner

So many of us are working our way toward a more self-sufficient lifestyle. With that in mind we here at NDiN wanted to share some general guidelines of what to plan for on a monthly basis. Whether you’re a gardener, a beekeeper, a forager, or you keep animals, hopefully our monthly guides will help you plan [...]

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September Planner

So many of us are working our way toward a more self-sufficient lifestyle. With that in mind we wanted to share some general guidelines of what to plan for on a monthly basis. Whether you’re a gardener, a beekeeper, a forager, or you keep animals, hopefully our monthly guides will help you plan ahead for [...]

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The Skills to Survive

I had an interesting conversation with some friends the other day about the skill set many of us have in our modern world and the skill set people had 200 years ago. Many of us now have skills that aren’t directly linked to our survival. My skills as an business manager earn me a salary [...]

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August Planner

So many of us are working our way toward a more self-sufficient lifestyle. With that in mind we wanted to share some general guidelines of what to plan for on a monthly basis. Whether you’re a gardener, a beekeeper, a forager, or you keep animals, hopefully our monthly guides will help you plan ahead for [...]

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A Little Cash on Hand

There are so many types of emergencies that we need to be prepared for big ones, small ones, short ones and long ones. Chances are, most of us will never experience a big major emergency, but it’s wise to be prepared. Your preparation efforts for these large scale emergencies can be built over a period [...]

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Building in Self Sufficiency Lessons Learned

When my husband and I built our house over 10 years ago we designed our own home.  As we poured over every inch to make sure it fit our family and its needs we also considered our dependency the outside world, utilities especially, when we put pencil to graph paper. We knew from talking to [...]

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Cold Turkey Week Three – Habits

“Can we be done with this experiment?” “There’s nothing to eat.” “Do we have to have chicken AGAIN? That’s all we ever eat!” Then I find out from our friend TC that RR’s BF want’s to send him a bag of Cheetos in a care package because he is suffering soooo much. Apparently RR told [...]

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