Plain Living Skills collects practical, low-tech household skills: the kind of things families knew by heart before everything ran on the grid. We look for methods that are simple, cheap and easy to practice at home.
When the outage outlasts the gear
What an old-world Amish community does about food, water, heat and light when backup power runs out.
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