Planning Your Garden? Read This First.
So you’ve noticed current events in terms of shortages at the grocery store and the many problems plaguing our centralized food system, from fires to food recalls
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Homesteading
How to Make Home Canned Ham
In a totally different stratosphere from Spam, the cans of flaked ham and the big pear-shaped cans of ham that you get from
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Container Gardening: How To Grow Food With Limited Space
Container gardening is ideal for those with little to no garden space. Even if you live in a condo or apartment and are
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How to Grow Horseradish and Make Your Own Spicy Condiment
Ground horseradish is one of those condiments that people either love or hate intensely. There seems to be no middle ground when it
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Tips for Growing Sweet Corn
Nothing says “Summer’s here!” quite like an ear of fresh, tender sweet corn dripping with butter. Sweet corn has the best flavor on
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Home gardening tips: A beginner’s guide to composting
Composting at home is good for your garden, the soil, your crops and the planet. It is a great way to repurpose food waste
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Everything You Need to Know To Grow a Big Crop of Cucumbers
Nothing beats the summer heat like a fresh cucumber from the garden. These sun-loving vegetables are great for first-time gardeners and easy to
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6 Organic Mulches That Will Keep Plants Cool This Summer
Mulching your gardens during the warmest summer months will do wonders for growing plants and will encourage a healthier soil environment for your plants to
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How To Create A Root Cellar On Your Property
If you have a basement or even room under your house, you can create a root cellar to store food! The trick is
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5 Important homesteading lessons to learn from American pioneers
The legacy and memory of homesteading live on in us. And while the era that our great-great-grandparents had to live through is long
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Market Garden Strategies for Survival Gardens
Preppers can reap some big rewards by applying some of the habits of successful market gardeners and small farmers to our home gardens. See,
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Food preservation tips: What kinds of food can you dehydrate?
There is almost no easier way to preserve food than to dry it. Used for thousands of years to extend the shelf-life of food without
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How to Grow Strawberries
Sweet, juicy strawberries are not only a sure sign that the summer growing season has arrived, but they are also a very popular
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How to Grow Blackberries
Blackberries are a sweet tasty treat that can easily be grown in a home garden. The perennial plants will provide plenty of fresh
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5 Tips for successful raised bed gardening
Raised bed gardening is a great way to grow your own vegetables if the soil is of poor quality. It allows you to grow
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Why you should begin homesteading today
While there are differences between homesteading and prepping, both lifestyles emphasize self-sufficiency. Homesteaders and preppers alike often live off-grid, maintain a food stockpile,
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Prepper essentials: 3 Emergency water filtration options
Water is an important part of your preps for when SHTF, especially if you plan to bug in or stay at home when
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Seeding Indoors Now For Your Spring Garden
Spring may seem like its eons away, but it will be here before you know it. Starting your seeds indoors is a great
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Natural Cold Remedies
Natural cold remedies can be a great alternative to expensive over the counter medications. Today I’d like to share about one of my
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4 Ways To Use Willow Bark and How To Harvest It
Willow is a much more natural alternative to the Aspirins that line the shelves at every grocery store. It is also quite a
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Prepper recipes: How to make hardtack, a long-lasting survival food
Hardtack is a hard biscuit made of flour, water and salt. It is a long-lasting food that’s perfect for long-term emergencies. In fact,
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9 Ways To Prepare To Live Off-Grid
Preparing to start living off the grid is not as simple as most people think. They think that all they need to do
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Off-Grid Homesteading: How To Create Free Heating and Air Conditioning
Having a constant flow of cool air in the summer is the best way to beat the heat, but with the ever-increasing energy
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Prepper’s food delight: Fruits and vegetables you can grow in your own garden
The ability to feed yourself and your family when SHTF is very important, so you may want to learn how to grow your
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