Thinking of buying a homestead? Good for you! You're about to begin a difficult but satisfying journey that will change your life forever. You might be eager to get started, but before you rush out and purchase a piece of land, you need to spend some time learning all you can about buying land. And one of the best ways to do that is to hear … [Read more...]
14 Foods That Store Well in Root Cellars
Root cellars are one of the best ways to store food, whether you're a prepper or a homesteader. One of the reasons they're so great is that they're able to keep a pretty constant temperature year round. During the summer, well-insulated root cellars will stay cool even when it's really hot outside. And during the winter, they will stay above … [Read more...]
5 Time-Saving Gardening Tips
If you're retired or work part-time, gardening is one of the best things you can do in your spare time. You'll save money on food, you'll avoid unnatural chemicals and pesticides, and you'll improve your overall health just from being outside and interacting with nature. However, if you work full-time and/or you have family members to take care … [Read more...]
DIY Planter Box from Just a Few Boards
Several years ago I spent $100 on a nice elevated planter box for my back porch. It looked really nice in my backyard, and I grew some of my favorite herbs in it. Then last week, I was looking through Youtube and I saw this video by Cottage Life, and I thought, "Hey, that looks a lot like my planter box." So I clicked on the video, and yea, … [Read more...]
16 Real Ways to Save Money on Groceries
I'm only thirty-four years old, yet I'm already old enough to say, "Back in my day..." For example, back in my day, my husband and I only spent $50 a week on groceries. Now that I'm older and have two children, sometimes I spend as much as $200 a week on groceries! Obviously, kids are expensive, but buying groceries for four people instead of … [Read more...]
DIY Cinder Block Grill
Have you ever thought about building your own grill? Most people wouldn't even consider doing this. They're afraid they don't have enough knowledge or that it would be way too much work. But after watching this video from Dr. Stewart Productions, you'll realize that building a grill isn't nearly as complicated as you thought. For this cinder … [Read more...]
22 Reasons to Store Bag Balm
My husband has dry skin. Very dry skin. So dry that he has to put on lotion several times a day to keep flakes from forming on his face and arms. I've told him to drink more water, but he doesn't listen. Anyway, if he spends too much time walking around in his socks, the cloth soaks up all the moisture and his heels start to crack. (Sorry if … [Read more...]
How to Secure Your Homestead
Most of the time, people living off the grid don't think too much about home security. They assume that all the crime happens in the cities and that they don't need to worry about burglars out in the middle of nowhere. This is partly true. Your average burglar isn't targeting off-grid homesteads. However, if a major disaster occurs in the … [Read more...]
Dandelion Soda Recipe – Naturally Fermented with a Ginger Bug
It's that time of year again, and dandelions are everywhere. A few weeks ago I made a lost with a list of things to do with dandelions. Naturally, a few days later I came across another idea that I would have added to the list if I'd thought if it: dandelion soda! I almost edited my post, but this soda turned out so good that I decided to make a … [Read more...]
How to Make Hard Candy With Just 4 Ingredients
Everybody knows kids love candy, but there's something they love even more: candy they made themselves! That's my experience, anyway. When I was a kid, my mother taught me how to make candy at home, and I was so excited by the idea of making candy from scratch that I thought it was the tastiest thing ever. Now that I'm a parent, I have the … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Preserve Food Without Electricity
Anybody who wants to live off the grid knows the importance of long-term food storage. But here's the problem: If you're living off the grid, you might not have electricity, which means you can't store your food in a fridge or freezer. It also means you can't use dehydrators, and you can't use electric ovens to heat your canner. You might not even … [Read more...]
5 Mistakes First Time Chicken Owners Make
Have you ever thought about raising chickens in your backyard? If you live in an area where backyard chickens are allowed, you should seriously consider it. You get fresh eggs, chicken meat, free fertilizer, pest control, weed control, and more. However, you can't just dump a bunch of chickens in your yard and throw them scraps every now and … [Read more...]
How to Grow Trees from Twigs
When most people plant trees, they just buy a baby tree from the store and transfer it to the ground. But there's another method that is cheaper and more satisfying: Take a twig from the kind of tree you want to plant and nurture it into a whole new tree. Doing this isn't as complicated as you might think. In this article by Anna Ikona on … [Read more...]
10 Amazing Uses for Activated Charcoal
At one time, activated charcoal was considered a universal antidote for a wide range of conditions. With the advent of modern medicine, the popularity of activated charcoal declined. However, in recent years it has seen a bit of a resurgence, especially among the alternative medicine community. In this article, we’ll take a look at what … [Read more...]
3 Reasons To Start Canning Meat
My husband is friends with a guy who loves to grill out. Just loves it. Every holiday and most weekends, he heads outside and grills hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks, chicken, sausage, or really anything made of meat. He's one of those guys who has to have some meat with every meal. Like us, he's also a prepper, and one day he showed us his food … [Read more...]
5 Basic Skills to Learn Online
Of all the amazing inventions that have come about over the last century, I think people take the Internet for granted more than any of them. Just think about it: With the Internet, you have the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips. There was a time when people would regularly trek miles to a library just for access to a portion of that … [Read more...]
5 Myths About Goats
There are many, many benefits of raising goats. The most obvious benefits are that they produce milk and meat, which is delicious. But you can also use the milk to make soap, you can use their dung as fuel, they'll eat all your food scraps, they'll eat all your weeds, they produce manure for your garden, they're fairly easy to train and deal with, … [Read more...]
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