Steve Nubie, Author at Homestead Survival Site

A Strategic Plan for Long-Term Gardening

How crop rotation, companion planting, and succession planting can make every gardening season a huge success.

If you’re hunkered down and running low on food, here are some survival recipes you can make from the few ingredients you have left.

Just brushing up against many plants can cause skin irritation from rashes to blisters. Here are 12 deadly plants to avoid.

In this article, we’re going to learn how to make clay bricks, soil bricks, papercrete bricks, and concrete bricks.

Cutting down a tree yourself is the most economical solution, but you need to be very careful when attempting it.

Bone broth is exactly what it sounds like: A broth made from bones. Here are step by step instructions on how to make bone broth at home.

Making maple syrup from scratch seems a bit complicated and often looks like a real mess, but it’s not. Here’s how to do it.

Cowboy Candy is pickled, sliced jalapeños jarred in a sweet syrup consisting of ingredients commonly found in bread-and-butter pickles.

Cornpone is a baked or fried combination of cornmeal, water, salt, and fat with other ingredients added by pioneers and Civil War soldiers.

Foraging for wild edibles is hard enough already, but in winter it’s a real challenge. Fortunately, some plants will surprise you.