If you’ve decided to prepare your family for a disaster, storing food will probably be one of your first major projects. Having emergency food on hand can help you get through anything from snowstorms to economic hardship, or even large-scale disasters. Storing food at home is fairly easy and affordable if you take your time and do it right. If … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Bake Bread Without Electricity
For anyone trying to increase their self-reliance, learning to bake bread is often one of the first goals. Bread making isn’t difficult and it’s a great way to save money. It’s also a great survival skill. It doesn’t have to stop there though. If you want to take this skill a step further, you should learn how to bake bread without a … [Read more...]
Dutch Oven Cooking: The Complete Guide for Beginners
There are articles all over the Internet about the new kitchen gadgets you "absolutely must have in your kitchen". Unfortunately, the vast majority of these gadgets are single-use appliances and are cheaply made. If you’re serious about cooking delicious meals from scratch, you don’t need the latest plastic gizmo. You need a few quality kitchen … [Read more...]
11 Most Useful Medicinal Herbs You Can Grow
Learning to use herbal remedies can be a great way to increase your self-reliance. While there’s no way to totally eliminate the need for modern medicine, herbal remedies can help you avoid some trips to the doctor. Unfortunately, good quality organic medicinal herbs can be expensive. Luckily, there are many healing herbs that are easy to grow … [Read more...]
14 Delicious Ways to Add Turmeric To Your Diet
Adding helpful herbs to your diet can be a great way to be more self-sufficient and responsible for your own health and well-being. While herbs cannot entirely take the place of modern medicine, they can help reduce the need for it. Medicinal herbs are not just for when you actually get sick. They can also help keep you well when you incorporate … [Read more...]
The Easiest Way to Make Your Own Yeast
There are many ways to make your own yeast, but arguably the easiest way is to grow a sourdough starter. To do this, all you have to do is capture wild yeast using flour and water. Though there are other methods that are fairly easy, I recommend this method for a couple of reasons. First, it involves basic ingredients that everyone already has … [Read more...]
35 Emergency Foods You Should Stockpile
Modern life has led people away from their backyard gardens and well-stocked root cellars. These once farmhouse staples helped ensure that families could feed themselves no matter how long the road to town was, what the weather was like, or their economic situation. While access to grocery stores makes it seem like there’s no need to worry about … [Read more...]
Peasant Bread: A Delicious Food That Anyone Can Make (With Pics)
If you're new to from-scratch cooking or bread-making in particular, peasant bread is a great place to start. It’s long been a cheap family staple and is an easy recipe to add to or alter to suit your tastes. Plus, it’s no-knead! While there isn’t a strict definition for peasant bread, traditionally the basis was simply flour, water, yeast, and … [Read more...]
9 Ways to Store Meat Without Refrigeration
In today’s world, it has become extremely important to prepare your family for disasters. Even something small like an ice storm could knock out power and close roadways for days at a time. To prepare for events like this, many people are beginning to realize the importance of having local food sources and keeping stored food on hand. … [Read more...]
6 Reasons Every Homesteader Should Own a Dutch Oven
When you picture a woman cooking over the fire on her way out West, you probably picture her using a Dutch oven. Dutch ovens were popular with colonists and settlers, mountain men, westward homesteaders, and cowboys. They evoke images of simpler times, traditional living, and meals around the fire, but Dutch ovens shouldn’t be a thing of the past! … [Read more...]
25 Powerless Appliances for Your Homestead Kitchen
Kitchens are the hub of the home. They’re nearly always busy and so much of the daily chores are done there. From cleaning vegetables and eggs, to butchering, baking, and preserving, there’s tons of work happening there. To make homestead life easier, it’s important to have your kitchen properly equipped with the right tools. Unfortunately, many … [Read more...]
20 Plants You Can Turn Into Flour
In most of the world, wheat is a staple of almost everyone’s diet. Bread, pasta, cakes, cookies, cereal, and even beer all have wheat in them. Because of this, many off gridders are trying to grow their own wheat, but unfortunately, wheat can be difficult to grow depending on the land and climate. Thankfully there’s a plethora of other plants … [Read more...]
35 Basic Ingredients You Need For Cooking From Scratch
One thing anyone can do to start homesteading no matter where they live is cooking from scratch. It can help you eat healthier, save money, and reduce your dependence on the grocery store. However, it can be hard to make homemade meals all the time, especially if you don’t know what to keep on hand. If you keep these simple ingredients stocked … [Read more...]
25 Essential Kitchen Tools for People Who Love to Cook
If you’ve wanted to cook from scratch only to see a recipe that uses a bunch of kitchen utensils you don’t own, you’re not alone! Learning to cook from scratch isn’t that hard and will save you tons of money, which is why it’s absolutely worth it to invest in a few good kitchen tools. It’s absolutely worth it to invest in a few good tools. … [Read more...]
11 Benefits of Dehydrating Food for Long-Term Storage
For thousands of years, one of humanity's greatest struggles has been preserving food. Everyone has to eat to live, so countless people have spent much of their lives in the production and processing of food. Through the years, people have tried a variety of methods including salting, smoking, fermenting, pickling, canning, drying, and freezing. … [Read more...]
9 Ways Homesteading Can Save You Money
There are many reasons people choose to become homesteaders. From enjoying the best fresh tomatoes to getting back in touch with nature, living the simple life can be pretty great. Did you know it can also save you money? Homesteading affords so many opportunities to cut back on your bills and truly enjoy life. Here are 9 reasons homesteaders … [Read more...]
