4 Best Methods for Food Self-Sufficiency in a Small Space
Follow me For most of us producing all of our own food is just a fantasy. It evokes visions of multiple acres of
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Homesteading
Pioneer Cooking Methods and Recipes
Follow me The pioneers lived a rough, dangerous, and demanding life. The men had to be farmers, hunters, trappers, skilled carpenters, and skillful
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Permaculture: The New Paradigm Of Self Sufficient Community Based Living
Follow me The fact of the matter is that over the years we have allowed ourselves to be more and more accepting of
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Build an Outhouse (Privy) with plans from 1909
Follow me Besides taking for granted how simply water normally arrives into our homes, sometimes we also fail to consider how easily we
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Hugelkultur: Natural Permaculture Gardening
Follow me Sustainable agriculture is a relatively new (and also very old) concept that is sweeping the world these days. Beautiful gardens are
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You Can Turn A $2000 Shipping Container Into An Epic Off-Grid Home
Follow me What if you could spend a fraction of what it would cost to buy or build your own house and instead
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“Farm From A Box” Equips Communities With The Tools Needed To Grow Food Off-Grid
Follow me The small farming toolkit includes everything one needs to start growing biodynamic, organic food off-grid. Self-sufficiency is a must in the
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Want To Build An Eco-Home, But Don’t Know How? Let This Guy Teach You!
Follow me The Greenhouse of the Future project aims to teach people all over the world how to build their own eco-homes (and even
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10 Spring Edibles To Look For In Your Backyard
Follow me Are you tired of cold temperatures? Can’t you stand the freezing anymore? Hold your horses, spring is almost here! And with
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The Easy Way To Canning Meat Off Grid
Follow me Though there are many different methods of preparing meat for long-term storage, without a doubt, canning it is the easiest way
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100-Year-Old Way to Filter Rainwater in a Barrel
Follow me During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we
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DIY Water Well in a Day
Follow me For anyone lucky enough to have a shallow water table without bedrock, a do-it-yourself driven well saves thousands of dollars compared
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Back To Basics: How To Make Rum At Home
Follow me Ok, so this one is for those of you who just don’t want to spend life after SHTF without the occasional
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Tips for Starting an Aquaponics Garden
Follow me Increasingly, people are looking for ways to have more control over the source of their food. They are also looking for
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13 Tips For Building The Best Raised Beds
Follow me There are many reasons why raised bed gardening is becoming so popular. One of the main reasons that they’re great for
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Back To Basics: Making And Canning Homemade Butter
Follow me Butter: you use it to make baked potatoes delicious. You smear it on your biscuits and you make finger-licking sauces with
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Back To Basics: Homemade Seasonings
Follow me We all love them – those delicious herbs and spices that takes food from bland to grand, but what happens when
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On-Wheels Is The New Off-Grid: A Guide To Tiny Houses
Follow me With the cost of utilities on the rise and the desire to live as off-grid as possible on the minds of
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Easy DIY Homemade Water Distiller (Cool Video)
Follow me Water is one of your most important preps, without it you can only last 3 days. Having alternative methods to purify
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Homemade Solar Water Distiller – turns dirty water/saltwater into clean drinking water! – how to DIY
Follow me Homemade Solar Water Distiller – turns dirty water/saltwater into clean drinking water! – how to DIY how to make
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Blend Your Own Seed-Starting Mix
Follow me April Johnson, landscape and greenhouse coordinator at the Rodale Institute near Kutztown, Pennsylvania, grows literally thousands of organic vegetable, flower, and
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Cold Frame Gardening
Follow me Like most vegetable gardeners, I’ve always been interested in extending the harvest beyond the confines of “the growing season.” Along with
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