Several times in the past two weeks, I’ve mentioned Faribault Woolen Mill Co. Having spent half of my growing up years in Minnesota, I had friends from summer camp who lived in Faribault and whose parents and friends worked there. The mill is a bit of a state landmark. According to their website, “Since 1865, [...]
Archive | January, 2012
Homesteading vs. A Day at the Office
“An “easy” life is not necessarily always a good life. A hard life is not always bad. Hard work is satisfying, dirt can be soul-cleansing, and in whose company our time is spent is the real factor by which the value of our minutes and hours should be measured.” -SB, Admin/Editor of SustainingLiberty.com Regrettably, after [...]
STOP SOPA/PIPA!
If visiting your favorite blog or political website to see a notice like the one above sounds like a nightmare to you, do some research on SOPA. Maybe I don’t need to rehash what hundreds of thousands of other bloggers and websites have already said. But I can’t sit idly by and say nothing at [...]
Guest Blog: A Hail of a Start to Urban Gardening
In this post, we feature guest-blogger and our assistant Admin, Angie Bare. She’s a military wife and the mother of three boys, staking out her claim on an urban homestead in the Pacific Northwest. She spends most of her free time behind a camera. I wouldn’t have called myself a gardener. It’s not something I [...]
Homemade Laundry Soap
As someone who has begun hand-washing all of my laundry, I found this article from Mother Earth News to be extraordinarily helpful. I don’t normally keep these ingredients around, but if I’m going to persist with my wash-tubbing, I suppose I’ll need to start. If you’re interested in trying it out, too, here’s what you’ll [...]
Three by Three: A Cornerstone for Building a Life of Freedom
Three by three. Or three cubed. A perfect cube is what you want for your cornerstone. If you build on a cornerstone that’s out of square, as the structure grows, the inequalities are magnified and the structure is weakened. But when your angles are right, you can build an iconic landmark, an historic monument. This [...]
Weekly Update: Two weeks in and it’s Already Booming
Well, fellow Freedom Fighters, here are some exciting statistics. In just our first two weeks since launch, we’ve had over 1,000 views on the blog site and over 2,500 visits on the facebook page! A twitter link from Adam Baldwin certainly helped boost our traffic. Special thanks to our assistant admin Angie for the help [...]
My Marine Corps’ Pristine Image Springs a Leak (NSFW)
This post has nothing to do with sustainability, nutrition, or preparing for disasters. But in a way it is most certainly about resilience and how we hold up under incredible pressure. It in every way has to do with accepting individual responsibility for how we behave even under the worst circumstances. Exhibit 1- These [...]
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An Open Letter to the Mayor and City Council of Tacoma regarding a proposed Walmart
Sir/Ma’am: I am writing to express my concern regarding the proposed construction of a Walmart store in Tacoma. Just 18 months ago, my family and I moved to this area from a cookie-cutter Midwestern suburb littered with big-box stores, skyrocketing unemployment and severe traffic congestion. We moved to this area in large part because when [...]
