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Lamp & Larder

Practical self-reliance for ordinary households

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Keeping the lights on: paying for backup power

A generator, a home battery and a drawer of flashlights each keep a different part of a house going through an outage, and only the generator can kill if it is run in the wrong place. Poland pays up to half the cost of a home battery, but only once it is installed, and often many months after. Whatever pays for the rest, from savings to a bank loan to a 30-day loan from Avinto for a small item, the repayment has to clear in the winter the equipment was bought for.

· Money and preparedness

Contents

1Wild edibles

11 plant guides, 2009–2012

All 11 plant guides

2Food storage

7 methods, 2010–2016

All 7 methods

3At home when the grid is down

12 guides, 2009–2015

All 12 guides

4Outdoors

12 skills, 2009–2015

All 12 skills

5Awareness

7 pieces, 2009–2016

All 7 pieces

6Money and preparedness

3 pieces, 2010–2026

All 3 pieces

Most looked up

The pages people look up most often.

No.PageSection
1A year under siege: one survivor's account of urban collapseAwareness
2How to make powdered eggs, and why the store-bought kind is saferFood storage
3How to put together a survival kit in three tiersOutdoors
4How to eat cattail: digging the rhizomes and making cattail flourWild edibles
5How to make a candle heater from clay pots, and what it can really doAt home when the grid is down
6How to make pinole, the parched-corn trail flourFood storage
7How to make pemmican, the original trail rationFood storage
8Dew collection: wiping drinking water off a morning fieldOutdoors