Tricia Drevets, Author at Homestead Survival Site

How to Make a Hotbed to Start Plants Early

A hotbed is a raised bed that uses layers of decomposing organic materials as a heat supply to grow plants. Here’s how to make one.

Rubber bands have all sorts of off-grid uses in first aid, fishing, starting a fire, organizing your gear, and much more.

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.

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.

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.