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Wren Everett

United States
As seen in: xXPainWarriorXx, Mother Earth News, GRIT, Backyard Poultry Magazine, Countryside, Backwoods Home Magazine, Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Covers:  Self-Sufficient Living, Off-Grid Living, Gardening, Livestock, Foraging, Whole-Foods Cooking, Self-Reliance, Homesteading
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How to Cook on a Woodburning Cookstove

How to Cook on a Woodburning Cookstove

Spotify — Listen to this episode from Mother Earth News and Friends on Spotify. In this audio article episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, join us as we explores the practical joys and challenges of using a traditional woodburning cookstove to achieve off-grid self-reliance in the modern age.
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Modern Victory Garden - Mother Earth News

Modern Victory Garden - Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News — Grow a modern victory garden to save money, feed your family, build community, gain food security, and resilience.
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Modern Landrace Gardening - Mother Earth News

Modern Landrace Gardening - Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News — Try modern landrace gardening techniques to create your own landrace vegetable seeds by overcoming challenging weather and pests.
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Moving Off the Grid - Grit

Moving Off the Grid - Grit

GRIT — Moving off the grid can mean any necessary resource that is not self-generated. Discover what you need to consider and do some soul-searching before making the big leap.
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Unusual Vegetables to Grow from Pre-Columbian Times - Grit

Unusual Vegetables to Grow from Pre-Columbian Times - Grit

GRIT — Go on a journey to pre-Columbian times to find unusual vegetables to grow that are little-known but flavorful plants.
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Tracing a bean - Backwoods Home Magazine

Tracing a bean - Backwoods Home Magazine

Backwoods Home Magazine — By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) - an online seed-savers trading post of sorts - looking for squash seeds. My previous squash efforts had been perpetually foiled by drought and squash bug attacks, and so I had been [...]
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You Can't Just Make Community Happen: Finding Your Flock

You Can't Just Make Community Happen: Finding Your Flock

homestead.org — Community is something I have longed for all my life. I think it's a natural human desire-to be a part of an extended family, of a village, of a group of like-minded people who can live together.
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How to Cook on a Cookstove - Mother Earth News

How to Cook on a Cookstove - Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News — Learn how to cook on a cookstove and find out what woodburning cookstoves have to offer the modern chef.
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Growing Poppies From Seed to Seed * Insteading

Growing Poppies From Seed to Seed * Insteading

insteading.com — That secret weapon, dear reader, is poppies.
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Growing Collard Greens * Insteading

Growing Collard Greens * Insteading

insteading.com — Collard greens are a resilient and nutritious garden staple. Easy to grow, delicious to eat, and worth saving seed from.
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Rethink Recycling

Rethink Recycling

GRIT — Recycling isn’t the panacea it’s been touted as.
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Living Off-Grid

Living Off-Grid

Countryside & Small Stock Journal —
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Baking Bread Daily

Baking Bread Daily

GRIT — Tight-lipped, I turned the dial to preheat the oven to 475 degrees F. One of these days, I know it’s going to blow. This isn’t my first oven. Or second. It’s the fourth we installed in this kitchen, in my apparent serial-killer spree on electric kitchen appliances. As I gazed at the red “on” light of my latest victim, I wondered about a society that creates ovens that can’t stand up to the simple act of baking daily bread.
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Why Latin Is Actually Really Useful on the Homestead * Insteading

Why Latin Is Actually Really Useful on the Homestead * Insteading

insteading.com — "Latin's a dead language, as dead as dead can be. It killed off all the Romans, and now it's killing me!"
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Duck Coop Design Tips

Duck Coop Design Tips

Backyard Poultry Magazine — Build a duck coop that both you and your birds will enjoy.
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Reduce Food Waste - Mother Earth News

Reduce Food Waste - Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News — Save money and reduce food waste simultaneously by reclaiming the food cycle! The scope of food waste in our country is more than just a matter of dollars and pounds; it's also an environmental, social, and moral issue.
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Homeschool Gardening for Child Development

Homeschool Gardening for Child Development

Countryside & Small Stock Journal — Homeschool parents know that there are few subjects as dreaded and loathed by certain students as math. Never mind how many times we try to emphasize its necessity and usefulness — the moment inevitably comes when a teary-eyed child slumps in their chair, head to the table, and gives up (momentarily). As a former child who found math frustrating in school, I can empathize! However, as a current adult who knows these skills are vital, I also know that pushing through that frustration block is a challenge that must be faced.
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Sprouts: An Easy Way to Grow Fresh Food Without a Garden * Insteading

Sprouts: An Easy Way to Grow Fresh Food Without a Garden * Insteading

insteading.com — The only real barrier to this wonderful food source is acquiring the small amount of effort and education needed to grow your own sprouts, and the will to do
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Can I Save Seeds for Next Year?

Can I Save Seeds for Next Year?

Mother Earth News — Can I save seeds for next year? Embark on a journey of creating and preserving plants adapted to your region, garden, and soil.
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A Toast to the Realistic Garden * Insteading

A Toast to the Realistic Garden * Insteading

insteading.com — You’ve seen all the social media and glossy-paper magazine gardens. They’re lush. They’re perfectly weeded. Their plants are in proportioned rows without a single hole in any leaf, and they fill baskets of picturesque produce without a hitch. In short, they are photogenic perfection with huge amounts of repost-ability and very low amounts of achievability.
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Seed Germination Techniques: Soaking, Scarifying, Stratifying, and Smoking * Insteading

Seed Germination Techniques: Soaking, Scarifying, Stratifying, and Smoking * Insteading

insteading.com — For years, I avoided certain plants because their germination requirements were to my (at the time) limited experience, intimidating. I’m sure some of you have felt the same as you read the words stratify or scarify and moved on to easier seeds. © Seed Germination Techniques: Soaking, Scarifying, Stratifying, and Smoking • Insteading Source: https://insteading.com/blog/seed-germination-techniques/
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A Practical Guide For Controlling Technology

A Practical Guide For Controlling Technology

homestead.org — I obviously still use technology, but I insist on being the one controlling technology. Technology must not control me.
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Accepting the Mess of Woodstove Season * Insteading

Accepting the Mess of Woodstove Season * Insteading

insteading.com — There's nothing cozier than curling up beside a crackling fire, the orange glow warming both body and spirit. We must have some sort of innate programming
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Caring for the Off-Season Woodstove * Insteading

Caring for the Off-Season Woodstove * Insteading

insteading.com — During the summer months, it probably seems strange to be discussing something as out of season as woodstoves. The days of freezing, blizzard-whipped nights
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