6 One-Day Preparedness Projects & Skills
A ton of preparedness projects and skills can be completed in as little as an afternoon, regularly with minimal outlay of cost. Some
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How To Make Money Off Grid: Making A Living From Your Homestead
Living off the grid is one thing. Actually making a living while living off the grid is quite another thing altogether. The good
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Food Preservation Techniques: Learn How to Pickle
I am not an enthusiastic cucumber pickle eater. I pretty much like two kinds: bread-and-butter pickles made into a relish to eat with
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Tools You’ll Need When Manufacturing No Longer Exists
You wouldn’t be reading this article trying to figure out what tools you needed to build stuff with if you thought life was
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Making Your Own Solar Powered Motorhome
What if you could design a completely independent motor home that uses solar power or grid power to charge batteries to provide engine
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How To DIY A Greenhouse: 9 Projects For Your Homestead
Today’s article is as green as it gets, because it’s about DIY-ing greenhouses. How do you build a greenhouse, you ask? The easy answer
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How to Make Cottage Cheese and Sour Cream from Raw Milk
Do you have a source of delicious, creamy raw milk? Or, as our grandparents used to call it, milk? If you do, you
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Ropes And Knots: Basics for Survival and Everyday Use
There’s good reason our military have trained men to tie them for generations. Knots has always been a skill the inexperienced take for granted,
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Harvesting Rainwater From Fog Is 500% More Effective Than Other Methods
Fog harvesting is effective technology that pulls water from the air for drinking and irrigation purposes. Fog harvesting is becoming a popular strategy
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20 Ways to Build a Whole Food Kitchen on a Half Price Budget
Making a trip to the grocery store these days is like running a gauntlet. From one side you are assaulted by food-like substances
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Hardtack: A Simple DIY Survival Food From History
With only two ingredients and a little time you can stockpile a survival food that’s been used for centuries. Let’s take a lesson
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Top 10 Ways to Live Off the Grid -Primitive Electricity
Top 10 Ways to Live Off the Grid -Primitive Electricity Using the Wind, Waves, Forest, and Sun to Create Electricity A number of
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25 Homemade Coffee Creamers and Syrups (without the nasty additives)
Do you love coffee or know someone who does? ‘Tis the season for the fanciest possible version of everything, and your hot beverage
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Chill Out This Summer with a Homemade Air Conditioner
You’re probably still shivering at the thought of this past winter, but the summer heat is right around the corner and with it
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DIY broths from kitchen scraps
I’m one of those people who really loves soups and stews. A good soup simmering on the stove makes a house feel like
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DIY Projects: 4 Ways To Heat A Greenhouse
In one of my recent articles I thoroughly discussed the “how to’s” of DIY-ing your own greenhouse. Now, let’s address another issue: how
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How To Build Your DIY Basic Bushcraft Kit
Bushcraft was almost a lost art before the growing popularity of survival prepping also coincidentally stimulated a new interest in it. Preppers began
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How to Make Lightweight Oilskin Tarps from Bed Sheets
Weight – a unit of heaviness or mass; any heavy load, mass, or object; the vertical force experienced by a mass as a result of gravitation Gravity.
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DIY Survival: Make The Most Of 7 Trash Items
Disasters come in many different forms and levels of intensity, but one common theme they all share is the destruction they leave in
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DIY: Beer Can Alcohol Stove
Looking for a light, inexpensive, DIY alternative for boiling water while backpacking or camping? Have you bugged in without heat and power? Have
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DIY Pemmican: Bread of the Wilderness
What’s bread of the wilderness? This is a follow up to an article I posted about making this perfect primal stick-to-your-ribs survival food
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Off-Grid Project: DIY Insulating Window Frames
As the winter settles in, you are bound to notice more drafts coming from windows. Without proper insulation, windows represent one of the
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Survival Projects: DIY Small Cabin
What’s so special about cabins? Well, maybe a better question is what’s NOT so special about cabins! They’re quaint, functional, sturdy and can
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Canning the Christmas Turkey
Get the most bang for your turkey bucks by using every last bit of your bird. Instead of eating turkey until you can’t
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