Essential homesteading skills for self-sufficiency
Homesteading requires diverse skills to truly become self-sufficient. You need to produce your own food, create and mend your clothing, till the land
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Off-Grid
American Austerity: Are the Massive Power Outages Caused by Failure of Green Energy?
The Great Reset is continuing apace and every sign that austerity is in the cards for the Western world is flashing. The recent
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How to Make a Water Filter
Learning to make a water filter is a valuable survival skill. A thousand years ago people could wander through North America drinking any
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Grow your medicine: Japanese goldthread grown with hydroponics is just as potent as wild variants
Hydroponics is a form of gardening that doesn’t involve soil. Instead, plants are grown in a nutrient solution and a controlled environment. Hydroponics
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Why Your Medicinal Herb Kit Should Have Yarrow
Yarrow has been used in natural remedies for thousands of years and can be used to treat burns, boils, blisters, ear infections, sores,
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Benefits of Small Backyard Ponds
There are many benefits of small backyard ponds for both people and the environment. Freshwater habitats of all kinds are currently experiencing a
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A Prepper’s Guide to Wheat Berries: Versatile, Space-Saving, Long-Term Food
Do you have wheat berries in your stockpile? Have you used them? It’s very important to learn how to work with your new
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Pacific Northwest Weather: Surviving and Thriving Outdoors
The wet, cool and moderate Pacific Northwest weather is a powerful force in shaping the ecology of the land. Understanding its patterns and
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Water Bath Canning 101
Canning is one of those things that sounds a lot scarier than it actually is. Cloaked in grandmotherly mystique, it seems to be
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The Canning Shortage of 2020: Here’s How You Can Find These Essential Supplies
Sometimes it feels like 2020 is out to get all of us. Especially those of us who can and store our own food.
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Medicinal Herb Gardening Using Permaculture Techniques
Medicinal herb gardening is a wonderful way to begin incorporating permaculture into your life. Growing useful medicinal plants allows you to experiment with
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How to grow chilli peppers
Growing chillies at home is easy, and there’s a huge variety of different types to choose from. Whether you want flavour, heat or
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Survival medicine: How to make tinctures for your SHTF first aid kit
Herbal tinctures are liquid herbal extracts that confer protective effects against infections and diseases better than capsules or supplements. This is because tinctures best
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Winter squash with recipe for squash fries
It’s harvest time for winter squashes. How many of these beauties have you tried? Acorn Butternut Delicata Hubbard Kabocha Spaghetti Sweet Dumpling Turban
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Cook Like Grandma with these Bacon Fat Gingersnaps
I love finding news ways of using things I would otherwise throw out. The uses for bacon grease are too many to list,
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Your path towards Food Freedom: Simple and cheap home gardening innovations
Food freedom is a top concern for many people, whether they be natural health enthusiasts, environmentalists, or simply concerned about the hazards of
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Plant these high-calorie vegetables to ensure your survival when SHTF
Vegetables are great if you’re trying to limit their calorie intake, but these present a problem when SHTF and you’re limited to what you can
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Benefits of common root vegetables
Root vegetables are exactly what the name implies – they are the root of the plant. The most common root vegetables have become
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Cordage: Making Natural Rope
Making cordage is a fundamental survival skill that should not be overlooked. Such natural rope or string can be used for many things
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How to Make Improvised Arrowheads with Simple Tools for a Survival Bow & Arrow in Modern Times
Overview You will learn how to make what I consider to be the best and simplest arrowhead for hunting, and we will discuss
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A Prepper’s Guide to Biogas as an Alternative Fuel
Venezuela is, as I am writing this, a real survival laboratory. Those conditions created by the geopolitical threats have generated an apocalypse as
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Going Off Grid? How to Prepare for Your First Year
If you’re looking to start your first off-grid homestead, try to keep your expectations in check. It could take years for you to
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Going Green: 10 SUSTAINABLE Ways To Use Bamboo
Because of bamboo’s quick growth and reproduction, it is deemed one of the most sustainable resources we can use. Bamboo can be incorporated
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A Beginner’s Guide to Sausage Making (Recipes Included)
My grandfather was a large influence on my passion for homesteading. He was an avid gardener, hunter, made his own wine and sausage;
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