Fermented Foods: And No, They Won’t Get You Drunk!
Fermented foods are a staple in many cultures and are one of the oldest preservation methods. The earliest evidence of winemaking dates back
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Homesteading
Off-Grid Canning Techniques
Canning is a valuable skill because it’s completely low-tech. If you have a way to boil water, you have a way to preserve
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How to store meat long-term when living off-grid
Preppers know that there are several methods that can be used to prepare meat for long-term storage. However, canning is one of the
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Checklist For Winterizing Your Home
Winter disaster scenarios are not something you want to take lightly. In a worst-case scenario, you could be off the grid for days
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Off-Grid Cooking: How To Smoke Fish
Over the years, we’ve talked at length on how fish are a great addition to your prepper food supply and taught you how to
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Canning Bone Broth
Homemade bone broth is packed full of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients which are excellent for boosting immune function and keeping your body strong
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Do you have a safe source of water for a SHTF situation? Top 5 water purification mistakes
erybody knows that you need water to live. Without it, you’d be pushing in as little as 72 hours. What isn’t as common,
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Curing and preserving meat in the wild: 5 different techniques
It’s always a good idea to brush up on your survival skills. You never know when your knowledge of fire making or foraging
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Grid Down: How to Get Water From Your Well When There is No Power
One of the problems faced with an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) is that your well will not be pumping water into your home. For
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Threats to Family Farms & Homesteading from Agri-Business and Groupthink
This research-based article details the multiple threats to good, community farming practices and small-scale organic/cooperative endeavors. The threats take the form of social
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How To Can Potatoes
Canning potatoes is my favorite method of preserving them for the following year. They taste amazing (much better than store bought canned potatoes),
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Survival Gardens: Bedding Down for Winter
First let’s give a nod at the growing zones that are just entering or hitting the main strides of their production seasons. Best
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25 Must Have Survival Foods: Put Them In Your Pantry Now
One of my favorite phrases that I tell new preppers is that “your preps are your lifeline.” We must put measures in place
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The Lost Art of Scratch Cooking
If you compare the meals served in many of the kitchens today to meals served 100+ years ago, there is one very big
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How to cook inside, with no smoke, without gas or electricity
Preppers know that it’s important to have options for various survival scenarios. For example, if you lose power, you will need a way
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10 Brilliant Ways to Keep Chickens Cool in Summer
Chickens can withstand a lot of weather extremes, but heat is not one of them. Did you know that a sudden increase in temperature
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This Syrup Is 10x Stronger Than Penicillin- Kills All Infections
We all know that when we have some kind of a bacterial infection, antibiotics are always our first choice of medication. But these have
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10 Healing superfoods you can easily grow in your garden
The key to a healthy diet is within your reach. You don’t need to go far to get it – since all you’ll
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Grid Down: How to Get Water From Your Well When There is No Power
One of the problems faced with an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) is that your well will not be pumping water into your home. For
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What to Eat When You’re Broke
The lower your income is, the more difficult it is to be particular about what you feed your family. This probably isn’t an
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10 Dehydrator Meals for Your Prepper Pantry
In an effort to have some “just-add-water” meals planned for those emergencies that leave us with little to no warning, I have been
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How to Make Homemade Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese is one of those things that has far more ingredients than it should when you buy it at the store. Homemade
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One of the Most Undervalued Storable Survival Foods
Preparedness is more than a method of planning, it is a lifestyle. Long-term survival strategies are most effective when they are incorporated into
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Why Turning Back To Our Fathers’ Skills Makes Sense
A little over a hundred years ago, most Americans were still fairly independent. They grew their own food, or traded for it. They
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