Everybody knows kids love candy, but there's something they love even more: candy they made themselves! That's my experience, anyway. When I was a kid, my mother taught me how to make candy at home, and I was so excited by the idea of making candy from scratch that I thought it was the tastiest thing ever. Now that I'm a parent, I have the … [Read more...]
18 Best Off Grid / Homesteading Movies Of All Time
We’re a culture obsessed with zombie movies, apocalyptic films, survival stories, and dystopian tales...but why? There’s always been a part of me that’s just waiting for civilization to fall and the government to crumble. Where survival becomes the ultimate game and rebuilding civilization becomes the ultimate challenge. Picture it: the bees … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Preserve Food Without Electricity
Anybody who wants to live off the grid knows the importance of long-term food storage. But here's the problem: If you're living off the grid, you might not have electricity, which means you can't store your food in a fridge or freezer. It also means you can't use dehydrators, and you can't use electric ovens to heat your canner. You might not … [Read more...]
11 Dangerous Food Storage Mistakes
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...]
5 Mistakes First Time Chicken Owners Make
Have you ever thought about raising chickens in your backyard? If you live in an area where backyard chickens are allowed, you should seriously consider it. You get fresh eggs, chicken meat, free fertilizer, pest control, weed control, and more. However, you can't just dump a bunch of chickens in your yard and throw them scraps every now and … [Read more...]
12 Simple Ways to Lengthen Your Garden’s Growing Season
Many gardeners wait diligently for late spring so that they can begin their gardens, and then they reluctantly call it quits in the fall. Depending on where you live, that can be a short-lived growing season of only four months or so. However, there are some simple ways to extend your garden’s growing season. With a longer growing season, you … [Read more...]
How to Grow Trees from Twigs
When most people plant trees, they just buy a baby tree from the store and transfer it to the ground. But there's another method that is cheaper and more satisfying: Take a twig from the kind of tree you want to plant and nurture it into a whole new tree. Doing this isn't as complicated as you might think. In this article by Anna Ikona on … [Read more...]
10 Amazing Uses for Activated Charcoal
At one time, activated charcoal was considered a universal antidote for a wide range of conditions. With the advent of modern medicine, the popularity of activated charcoal declined. However, in recent years it has seen a bit of a resurgence, especially among the alternative medicine community. In this article, we’ll take a look at what … [Read more...]
3 Reasons To Start Canning Meat
My husband is friends with a guy who loves to grill out. Just loves it. Every holiday and most weekends, he heads outside and grills hamburgers, hot dogs, steaks, chicken, sausage, or really anything made of meat. He's one of those guys who has to have some meat with every meal. Like us, he's also a prepper, and one day he showed us his food … [Read more...]
15 Ways To Keep Your Chickens Cool In Hot Weather
Chickens are hardy birds and can adapt to most common weather fluctuations, with the exception of heat. Hot temperatures can kill an entire flock just as quickly as any predator. Sudden jumps in temperature are far more dangerous to chickens than a seasonal or gradual temperature increase. Unlike humans and likely many breeds of livestock on … [Read more...]
5 Basic Skills to Learn Online
Of all the amazing inventions that have come about over the last century, I think people take the Internet for granted more than any of them. Just think about it: With the Internet, you have the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips. There was a time when people would regularly trek miles to a library just for access to a portion of that … [Read more...]
10 Edible (and Healthy) Plants from Your Own Backyard – Summer Edition
As the summer sun begins to shine, you may notice new plant life popping up in your yard. Many homeowners overlook these plants, either assuming they’re pesky weeds or not even noticing them at all...but wait a second! Many of these wild and organic plants are packed with nutrients and are super delicious. Better yet, they’re free! Foraging can … [Read more...]
5 Myths About Goats
There are many, many benefits of raising goats. The most obvious benefits are that they produce milk and meat, which is delicious. But you can also use the milk to make soap, you can use their dung as fuel, they'll eat all your food scraps, they'll eat all your weeds, they produce manure for your garden, they're fairly easy to train and deal with, … [Read more...]
8 Things To Do With All Those Dandelions
I fondly remember the toddler days when my children would pick small bouquets of dandelions and lovingly present them to me. I would thank them and then place the “pretty flowers” in a small vase on the kitchen windowsill. Other than those delightful moments, however, I harbored dark thoughts about those bright yellow blooms. How dare they crop up … [Read more...]
How to Clip Your Chickens’ Wings
If you were stuck in one little backyard for most of your life, you'd probably get pretty bored. You might think, What's on the other side of that fence? Maybe some fresh juicy bugs! Well, you wouldn't think that last part, but you see what I'm getting at. Chickens get bored, too, and they very curious. So if your fence is too low (about six feet … [Read more...]
25 DIY Fire Pit Plans That Are Easy To Build
With summer right around the corner, you may already be planning some home improvement projects. If you plan on entertaining family and friends or experimenting with some survival techniques, a fire pit is a brilliant addition to your backyard. Whether you’re cooking hot dogs or cozying up next to your kids, your fire pit will get tons of … [Read more...]
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