#self-reliance — Public Fediverse posts

Are you truly independent, or just used to doing everything alone?

https://de320.isrefer.com/go/UNTHINKABLE/Stuartn/
 
#IndependentWoman #SelfReliance #EmotionalIndependence #StrongNotHard #ConsciousLiving #InnerStrength #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Indoctrination #Meditation

Modern Victory Garden – Mother Earth News https://www.allforgardening.com/1753376/modern-victory-garden-mother-earth-news/ #garden #gardening #ResilientGardeningTechniques #SelfReliance #VictoryGarden

Indiana just changed the game for homeowners! A new law stops HOAs from flatly banning amateur radio antennas. This is a massive win for self-reliance and emergency preparedness. 📡💪 #HamRadio #HOAVictory #SelfReliance

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/hoa-victory-how-indianas-new-law-is-breaking-the-silence-for-future-radio-operators/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

#Online - #CommunityGardens and #FoodSecurity in Maine

April 14 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Cost: $0 - $15

"This webinar is hosted by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.

Across Maine, community gardens are increasing food security by bringing people together to grow food for their communities. This panel will explore how collective garden spaces allow neighbors to work side by side to grow fresh, local food that is donated to food security organizations. Panelists will share real examples from across Maine and offer practical insights into how community gardens get started, build partnerships, and grow into lasting resources that strengthen local communities.

Speakers: Rachel Stamieszkin, Master Gardener Volunteer in Cumberland County, Johnny Sanchez, Collective Gardens Program Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator at #FoodAndMedicine (FAM), and Julia St. Clair, Agricultural Programs Manager at #BrunswickTopshamLandTrust."

To register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/community-gardens-and-food-security-in-maine/

#SolarPunkSunday #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #UMaineCooperativeExtension #MOFGA #CollectiveGardening #BuildingCommunity #SelfReliance #FeedingCommunity

#BrunswickME - Science for #SelfReliance: Integrating #MedicinalMushrooms into your Life

In-Person
Thursday, April 9, 2026
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library

For Adults and Seniors

"Join #MOFGA and #CurtisMemorialLibrary for a special talk on mushrooms. In an age of increasing stress and increasing health care costs, people seek healthy self-care practices in order to achieve and maintain optimum health. complement mainstream medicine for improved health maintenance or during those times when our health is compromised by illness, stress or disease. We benefit from generations of traditional healers around the world who have walked before us and utilized mushrooms and plants for their healing potential. Now western science is confirming the value of mushrooms as healing agents. Integrating medicinal mushrooms into our normal diet or as dietary supplements can help us all maintain good health. Join mycologist and author Greg Marley for a medicinal mushroom talk focused on the common Northeastern wild and cultivated mushrooms providing health benefits in our lives and available in the woods or foraged in a good market.

#GregMarley has been studying, growing, collecting and cooking #WildMushrooms for more than 45 years. He teaches #MushroomIdentification and ecology to hundreds of new #foragers as well as consulting in cases of mushroom poisoning. Greg is the author of Mushrooms for Health; Medicinal Secrets of Northeastern Fungi (2009) and Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, The Love Lore and Mystique of Mushrooms (2010). Marley lives and mushrooms along the coast of Maine. When not #mushrooming he works as a mental health trainer and consultant in suicide prevention and response after a loss."

Source:
https://curtislibrary.libcal.com/event/15947333

#SolarPunkSunday #MushroomForaging #MushroomIdentification #Mushrooms #SpendTimeInNature #HealingWithNature #LibrariesRule #MaineEvents

"These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood (humanity) of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.

The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."

Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo #Emerson

#SelfReliance #TTJ

The Resilient Gardener: Food Production & Self-Reliance "My garden needed to be designed around the reality that life has its ups & downs" Sale: $35 to $1.99 by Carol Deppe Rating: 4.6/5 (329 Reviews) #Gardening #Resilience #SelfReliance #Food #Vegetables #Permaculture #Homesteading #BookSky

The Resilient Gardener: Food P...

I started this thread on Reddit. I am wondering whether people here are interested in it or would like to collaborate?

#outdoors #openSource #survival #camping #skills #survivalskills #bushcraft #wilderness #selfreliance #notech #nature

Public domain survival books

https://www.reddit.com/r/Survival/comments/1rdpyqh/public_domain_survival_books/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The airwaves are under siege from corporate greed and electronic noise. It's time to understand the battle for the spectrum before we lose the ability to communicate independently. Defend the frequencies. 📡 #SpectrumDefense #RadioComms #SelfReliance

https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/the-silent-siege-defending-the-radio-spectrum-in-an-age-of-noise/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Talking about survival and resilience, well it's a hard life!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/forty-years-in-the-siberian-wilderness-the-old-believers-who-time-forgot

#resilience #SelfReliance #Community #survival #wilderness #russia

Rugged individualism and climate change preparedness

" The US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters."

“Each year above 1.5 degrees will hammer economies, deepen inequalities and inflict irreversible damage,” UN secretary general António Guterres "
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/donald-trump-disaster-response-preparedness

Rugged individualism >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugged_individualism
#Climate #ClimateDisruption #FossilFuels #preparedness #regulation #SocietalResponses #CollectiveSupport #SelfReliance #IndividualActions #SettlerSociety #RuggedIndividualism #individualism #sprawl #liberalism #inequallity #disasters #FossilfuelSubsidies

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires, and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #action #divineintervention #effort #humancondition #humanity #prayer #selfreliance #selfsufficiency #sermon #solutions #hardwork

External powers preach free trade, yet selective policies can destabilize South Asia & the Global South. India faces tariffs, currency pressures, and market volatility. “सर्वं परभवेन न तु स्वेन स्थिरम्” — everything imposed externally is unstable; internal strength endures. True stability comes from autonomous economic, technological & strategic capacity.
#Geopolitics #SouthAsia #GlobalSouth #SelfReliance #KautilyaWisdom

A quotation from Montaigne

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
 
[La plus grande chose du monde c’est de sçavoir estre à soy.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38), “Of Solitude [De la solitude]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943), 1.39]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #independence #individuality #selfconfidence #selfdetermination #selfknowledge #selfmastery #selfreliance #selfsufficiency #solitude

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Dig within. There lies the well-spring of good: ever dig, and it will ever flow.
 
[Ἔνδον σκάπτε, ἔνδον ἡ πηγὴ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ ἀεὶ ἀναβλύειν δυναμένη, ἐὰν ἀεὶ σκάπτῃς.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 59 (7.59) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7943…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #goodness #happiness #innerself #selfawareness #selfconfidence #selfcontrol #selfdirected #selfknowledge #selfpossession #selfredemption #selfreflection #selfreliance #selfsufficiency #selfworth

Found this through the #PennState Extension web page...

#SeedSaversExchange - #SeedSaving: Introduction

"Why Save Seeds?

Have you ever tried to save seeds from your crops? While the topic may seem daunting, anyone can do it! Not only is seed saving practical, it’s also very rewarding and essential for biodiversity preservation.

Why save seeds?

- You increase your #SelfReliance.
- You connect to nature and your food.
- You save money on future seeds.
- You establish ties to history.
- You adapt varieties to your local climate.
- Saved seeds make great personal gifts.
- You help preserve #biodiversity.
- You join a unique and large community of seed savers!

Seed Saving at Seed Savers Exchange

Saving seeds is integral to our mission at Seed Savers Exchange. It’s right there in our name! At our Heritage Farm headquarters, we steward a living collection of over 20,000 different varieties of seed crops, potatoes, garlic, grapes, and apples. Learn more about preservation at SSE.

There is inherent value in all of the seeds we work to protect. Some of the plants we preserve have a strong cultural history. Others possess unique culinary properties, and others display resilience to climatic events or invasive pests. Read seed stories from the collection.
Rows of large metal shelves full of boxes with many seed packets
The seed bank at Heritage Farm

By saving your own seeds, you play an important part in carrying out our collective mission. It’s up to all of us to lend a hand by saving and sharing seeds. Other ways to support SSE.

You don’t have to save seeds alone! By saving seeds, you join a community of countless other gardeners with similar interests. SSE facilitates the largest free seed swap between home gardeners like yourself. Through the Exchange, gardeners can request seeds from other gardeners, and list their own to share!"

Saving seeds also gives you a special opportunity to make an impact in your own community. Join or start a local #SeedLibrary, attend or host a #seedswap and connect with local gardeners!

Through the Community Seed Network, co-created by SSE, you can connect with other gardeners. You will also find extensive resources on creative ways to share seeds within your community."

Learn more [includes isolation methods, know your plants, harvesting and cleaning seeds]:
https://seedsavers.org/learn/seed-saving/

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedSaving
#HarvestTime #Harvesting #SeedSavers #FoodSecurity #GrowYourOwn #HierloomSeeds

Reminds me of the #Suckless project:

“Self-Reliant Programmer Manifesto”, Vitaly Kurin (https://yobibyte.github.io/self_reliant_programmer.html).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316578

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/lin8d0/self_reliant_programmer_manifesto

#Programming #NIH #SelfReliance #Manifesto #DependencyHell #Bloat #AbstractionLayers