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sharonastyk.com - 5/4/2009
Independence Days Challenge, Year Two!
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Returning to your regularly scheduled program, time to really get started on the second year of the Independence Days project. For those of you who participated before, the goal is to see if you can do even more than last year. For those of you who are new to this, the goal is make sure that ...
sharonastyk.com - 5/4/2009
Independence Day Update #1
— sharonastyk.com — It is definitely not too late to sign up to join this year’s challenge - just add... your name to the comments and start posting, either here in comments or on your own blog. I’m really going to try and do this every Monday for a whole year ... (more) Independence Day Update #1

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Independence Days Update
Chile Chews — Sharon has resurrected her Independence Days challenge and I am participating again. The point of this challenge is to do at least a little bit of work every day towards self-sufficiency. You can read more about it on her post. ...

A Busy Week for Food Independence
Chile Chews — ... This update of the Independence Days Challenge is dominated by lemons, although we actually did get a little bit of other work done as well. ...

Just For Fun
Chile Chews — ... Other than regular chores, the majority of my time is taken up with activities that fit into one or another of the categories in Sharon's Independence Days Challenge: planting something, harvesting something, preserving something, reducing waste, preparing and storing something, building community food systems, and eating the food we've preserved and stored. ...

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