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 … [Read more...]
3 Tips to Make Your Food Stockpile Last for Years
In crisis situations, you can typically survive without heat, electricity, and weapons; but you certainly cannot survive without proper sustenance. And the thing about crisis situations--they are always a surprise. Starting a stockpile will put you one step ahead of the game. Wipe away worry and preemptively smother panic by being prepared. … [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...]
How to Make Maple Syrup
I've always loved pancakes and syrup (who doesn't!?), but I never had homemade maple syrup until a few years ago when some relatives from the Northeast paid us a visit and brought along some syrup they had made. I expected it to be good, but it was even better than I had imagined. Now I'm ruined for store-bought syrup. If you live in an area … [Read more...]
7 Best Ways to Cook Without Electricity
Picture this: a rogue comet enters the Earth’s atmosphere, interfering with all electrical waves and causing internet, heating, light, and worst of all, electric cooking to become obsolete. Equally plausible, a tree falls down during a winter storm taking your power lines with it. Either way, while your friends in the ‘burbs are in a panic … [Read more...]
How to Make Homemade Soda: 3 Herbal Recipes
I was a Coca-Cola addict for over a decade until I realized how much the high fructose corn syrup was harming my health, so I switched to Diet Coke. A few years later, I learned about all the damage aspartame and other artificial sweeteners can do to the liver and other organs, so I quit that too. Today I mostly drink water, but I still crave … [Read more...]
35 Ingredients To Keep On Hand So You Can Cook Anything 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...]
Fried Chicken from the 18th Century
If you're interested in off grid living, you should check out the Youtube channel, Jas. Townsend and Son, Inc. They teach you what it was like to live in the 18th century, and especially the kinds of foods they cooked. Most people think of fried chicken as a modern food, but it's actually been around for at least several hundred years, as … [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...]
5 Fermented Foods That Anyone Can Make
Beyond the microbrewery, a growing number of households are using fermentation techniques that preserve fruits and vegetables all year long, without the use of electricity. Long before the advent of refrigeration, ancient food preservation techniques, one being fermentation, were utilized to make fruits and vegetables safe for consumption, long … [Read more...]
11 Reasons to Dehydrate 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...]
8 Supplies You Need Before You Start Canning Food
What do you do when the local shops have been looted, when your crops have been destroyed by climate change, or when a mudslide has left you cut off from access to a supermarket? Easy. You turn to your fully stocked pantry of canned foods--the one you've been adding to throughout the year. When properly sealed and stored, canned fruit and salsa … [Read more...]
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