Tricia Drevets, Author at Homestead Survival Site

How to Survive a Winter Blackout

Winter is a terrible time for a power outage, but it happens to millions of people. Here’s how to prepare for and survive winter blackout.

Researching indicates that PFAS (forever chemicals) are in rainwater all over the planet. Here’s how to remove them.

Wildfires seem to be getting worse every year, and they ruin people’s lives. Here’s how to protect your homestead from wildfires.

There are some veggies you can plant once and pretty much forget about. Here are some plant-and-forget vegetables to add to your garden.

Back to Eden gardening means less weeding, less watering, no tilling, fertile soil, and organic produce. Here’s how it works.

If you can’t find formula for your baby, there are some emergency baby formula recipes you should try. Here are three recipes.

If opioids are unavailable, there are some natural painkillers you can try instead including cloves, white willow bark, and more.

In a disaster, the Internet and cell phone towers might not be working. If that happens, try one of these alternative ways to communicate.

Cornstarch has many other uses other than its well-known role as a thickening agent. Here are 23 clever uses for cornstarch.

If you love mushrooms but think they are hard to grow, then the King Stropharia mushroom, often called the wine cap mushroom, is for you.