The Odd Gumnut's Guide to Radical Self-Reliance

Name: The Odd Gumnut's Guide to Radical Self-Reliance
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All the knowledge you need to ditch the system and start livin' a healthy, zero-waste, chemical free life!

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Created byLaura Christie Khanna

Last updated 6/2021

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What you'll learn

Permaculture
Growing food
Organic farming
DIY beauty & home products
Sustainable lifestyle
Responsible consumption
Alternative healing
Natural medicine
Women's care
Growing herbs
Soap making
Composting
Sustainable Menstruation
Conscious consumption
Sustainability
DIY products
Nutrition
Herbalism
Chemical-free living
Natural cosmetics
Kombucha
Natural Sodas
Sourdough Bread
Fermentation
Composting Toilet
Sustainable Living
Zero waste
Natural Beauty Care
Greywater

Course content

6 sections • 57 lectures • 8h 32m total length

How to Navigate This Course0:57

Introduction & Brief Overview of Permaculture7:59
Longer Introduction to Permaculture1:34:10
This 1.5 hour lecture & slide deck is an introduction to permaculture for those that are new to the term! We cover the philosophy (& principles), sectors, zones, water & soil, social permaculture and more. Take it all at once or over a couple sittings. If you are new to the world of permaculture, this lecture will help in your overall understanding of our approach throughout this section, and this course.
Soil: Permaculture Sheet Mulching6:54
Learn to build soil anywhere! Can be layered directly over your grass lawn if you are trying to kill the grass. Can be layered anywhere!!
Fertility: Composting11:34
Fertility: Worm Bin3:15
Make your own dug-in worm bin for in-situ composting! Not mentioned in the video: don't forget to add the worms!
Fertility: Compost Tea5:18
Seeds: Introduction (Hybrid vs GMO vs Heirloom)9:10
Explore the differences between heirloom, hybrid, and GMO seeds, why heirloom seeds are recommended, and how open pollinated seed saving sustains seed sovereignty and resilience.
Seeds: Seedling Mix + Starting Seeds Indoors5:02
Learn to start seeds indoors using plastic bottles as seedling starters, optimize ground space, grow bigger seedlings in a greenhouse, and repurpose waste.
Seeds: Hardening Off + Planting Out7:49
Seeds: Sowing Seeds Directly6:24
Seeds: Saving Seed10:00
Soil: Mulching, a Permaculture must!3:46
Soil: Weeds1:46
Growing: Pest Management, Permaculture Style3:34
Growing: Watering5:32
Water vegetables with drip irrigation or hand watering to maximize absorption; use porous earthen pots sunk in the ground, filled weekly, and watch for salt buildup and pests.
Growing: Apartment + Balcony5:58
Grow food in small spaces like balconies and rooftops by using containers, including repurposed items, and build a self-watering wicken bed with a bottom water reservoir and soil layer.
Growing: Planting Trees5:35

Introduction6:59
Our Microbiome, Fermentation & Why it Matters6:57
A diverse microbiome is the key to overall physical & mental health. Learn what harms it and what you can do to best support a thriving microbiome.
Eating Animal Products8:36
Every ancestral human population has sustain on animal products. But lots has changed since our ancestors time...in the face of animal abuse and climate change, what is the responsible and ethical way to proceed?
Fats: The good vs the bad5:48
Explore how saturated and monounsaturated fats support satiety and the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, while polyunsaturated industrial oils risk oxidation and free radicals.
Dairy: Introduction5:26
Fermenting Dairy: Yogurt & Saving Whey10:08
How to ferment dairy into yogurt and collect the whey for various uses. Easy home fermentation!
Grains, Seeds & Nuts: Introduction3:22
Grains, Seeds & Nuts: Soaking & Sprouting9:38
Grains Fermentation: Easy Sourdough Bread23:53
Pickles, Sauerkraut & Vegetable Fermentation15:11
Learn to ferment all kinds of vegetables using the brine method & the dry-salting method. We go in depth on sauerkraut too!
Beverages: Kombucha (fermentation)36:24
Learn to brew living kombucha through fermentation using tea and sugar, nurture a SCOBY culture, and flavor for carbonation with apricot, thyme, or moka.
Beverages: Natural Sodas (fermentation)18:16
Ferment your own natural sodas using raw milk whey (see lecture 6) or a ginger bug.
Cooking Equipment4:06

Introduction7:25
Learn what is really inside our products and why it makes a difference to our personal & planetary health.
Home: Making Saponin Liquid (DIY Natural Soap)4:42
Learn to make an all around soap (and shampoo!) base using soapnuts (reetha), shikakai and horse chestnuts.
Home: Making Bioenzyme (DIY Natural Surface Spray with a waste fermentation)3:54
Make bioenzyme for natural cleaning by fermenting a sugar and fruit peel mixture in a sealed plastic bottle with daily aeration, using 10% of the prior batch.
Home: How to Use for Cleaning4:04
Learn how to use saponin liquid & bioenzyme to wash dishes, make laundry detergent, surface spray, mopping liquid & more. We also show other strategies to keep home & clothing clean without chemicals.
Body: DIY Natural Hair Care3:28
Learn to make your own shampoo, conditioner & hair gel.
Body: DIY Natural Oral Care2:39
Learn to make toothpowder, how to combine that for a toothpaste & how to 'oil pull'.
Body: DIY Natural Skin Care8:02
HERE NOW:
Learn to cleanse facial skin with oil and honey and body skin with scrubs instead of soap. Learn to make a luscious body butter and a super-effective deodorant.
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DIY sugar waxing
Beetroot tinted lip balm & cheek stain
Basic Lip Balm
Hand salve
DIY Natural Cosmetics & Makeup5:03
Learn foundation, bronzer, brow filler, eyelash growth serum, mascara and eyeliner!
Check back for cheek stain and lip tint.

Introduction4:04
The Deliciousness of the Frugal Life8:44
Relish life through frugal hedonism, consume less, and gain more time by working less. Apply the three-part approach—attitudinal principles, re habituation, and experimentation—to pursue quality, waste reduction, and mindful living.
Ethical Consumption6:33
Water Saving Attitude: Introduction2:17
Water Saving Attitude: Greywater8:19
Define blue, gray, and black water, and reuse cleaned graywater for garden irrigation and toilet flushing, avoiding direct use on vegetables. Filtrate with sand and gravel; use reed beds.
Water Saving Attitude: Composting Toilet, Outdoor Womens' Toilet, Hand Washing4:54
Explore a dry, water-saving composting toilet with a dual pit system, sawdust aeration, and eight-month decomposition to lower pathogen risk and reuse compost on fruit trees.
Alternative Economies: Trade, Barter & Gift5:44
Appropriate Technology: Introduction4:19
Appropriate Technology: Rocket Oven + Rocket Stove3:33
NOTE: Since filming this we have improved our technique. Do not finely sift the clay! Leaving small rocks, up to 2-3 cm is great for helping hold the cob together and reduce cracking.
Just like you, we are always learning ;)
Travel & Adventure4:26
Alternative Healing5:22
Explore how community resilience rests on healing from within through plants, breath, meditation, and touch, prioritizing prana, microbiome balance, and emotional-spiritual health over pharmaceutical quick fixes.

Introduction5:31
Center yourself in your energetic womb space by tracking your cycle, understanding your Yoni, and reclaiming natural birth control, self-care, and sustainable menstruation beyond patriarchy.
Our Yoni & Our Cycles13:03
A great resource to learn more is the book The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack.
Tracking Our Cycles & The Truth About Hormonal Birth Control16:18
Women's Self Care3:48
Explore self-care for women's cycles, focusing on womb health and luteal-phase needs, reducing inflammation with dark sleep, avoiding plastics and phytoestrogens, cast iron or clay cookware, herbs, and zinc.
Yoni Steaming5:52
Sustainable Menstruation14:18
Self Love & Pleasure6:12

Requirements

Nothing at all! An open mind & willingness to learn, expand and experiment.

Description

Learn the skills for a sustainable lifestyle! Find freedom from wasteful and chemical systems by learning the basics of making compost & growing your own food (at any scale!), making all of your own home & beauty products and learning traditional food ways like fermentation, culturing and sprouting to make food your everyday preventative medicine. The environmental & health revolution beings at home, folks! At a community level, learn to engage in alternative economies, travel on a shoe-string, live minimally, set up zero-waste toilets & grey water systems, cook with wood on rocket ovens & stoves and so much more. For the women out there, learn sustainable mensuration, natural alternatives to hormonal birth control and all kinds of female-centered self-care.

Laura has taught thousands the skills for regenerative living online and in-person. Her teaching style is down to earth, fun and easy to understand. This course is for all levels! Total beginners will love the hands on & step by step learning. Go at your own pace and see the transformation of your life as you go from disempowered consumer to an ethical producer, creator and the inspiration of your community. In this course, we balance practical hands-on skills with ideological learnings on Permaculture, seed & farmers rights, GMOs, the food system, alternative economies and communities.

Who this course is for:

Earth-loving people ready to take change into their own hands!

The Odd Gumnut's Guide to Radical Self-Reliance

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Welcome!1 lecture • 1min

Growing Your Own Food17 lectures • 3hr 14min

Food as Medicine13 lectures • 2hr 35min

Kicking Chemicals Out of the Home8 lectures • 39min

Community Resilience11 lectures • 58min

Centering the Woman7 lectures • 1hr 5min

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