Links (lots of good stuff!)

I’ve moved all my links (except the blogs) here. If you find any dead links (or a link that needs to be moved or added to a new category), please let me know.

Animals

American Livestock Breeds Conservancy — Ensuring genetic diversity in livestock and poultry

Backwoods Home Magazine

Backyard Chickens

Farmer’s Almanac

Environmental groups

90 Percent Reduction — All kinds of people reducing their environmental impact

Evangelical Environmental Network

FreeSharing.org — Pass on unused items to others in your community

League of Conservation Voters

Republicans for Environmental Protection

The Freecycle Network — Give and get stuff free in your town

Food gardening

ATTRA-National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Backwoods Home Magazine

Basic Seed Saving

City Farmer’s Urban Agriculture Forum

Composting – US EPA page — The basics of composting

compost_wackos — Live Journal composting community

Edible Container Gardens

Farmer’s Almanac

Garden Girl — Urban Sustainable Living

Oklahoma Climate Data

Path to Freedom e-neighborhood

Self-sufficient”ish” — The urban guide to almost self-sufficiency. Based in the UK.

Square Foot Gardening — Mel Bartholomew’s site, home of his classic book!

USDA Hardiness Zone Maps

Whole Systems Agriculture — for the small-scale gardener

Freebies

FreeSharing.org — Pass on unused items to others in your community

Gigoit — Give or get unwanted usable items in your community.

The Freecycle Network — Give and get stuff free in your town

Veggie Trader — trade, buy or sell veggies near you

Government statistics

Energy Information Administration — Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government

Local food

Locavore Nation — A year-long project of NPR’s The Splendid Table

Local Harvest — Find local food suppliers in your area

Veggie Trader — trade, buy or sell veggies near you

Low-energy living

90 Percent Reduction — All kinds of people reducing their environmental impact

Backwoods Home Magazine

Homesteader News

Peak Oil overview — Rational balanced explanation, with pictures!

Peak Ready

Saving Electricity

The Oil Drum

The Simple Living Network

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Climate Data

Organization

FlyLady — Get your house in order! (not only for ladies)

Politics

Can I Vote?

FactCheck.org — Get the facts on the candidates

League of Conservation Voters

Listening to Katrina — a step by step way to be prepared for disaster in your community

Republicans for Environmental Protection

Preparedness

Listening to Katrina — a step by step way to be prepared for disaster in your community

Recipes and cooking

Recipezaar 

Supercook – plug in what you have now, get recipes you can make today without leaving your house!

The Solar Cooking Archive 

Water

Rainwater Harvesting

Water: Use it wisely