How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold hearty and
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Lessons from History – Victory Garden Advice That Applies To Everything
Looking back at past history, recent and far removed, can help prepare us in all parts of life. In some cases, early conventional
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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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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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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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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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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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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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22 Self Reliance Skills to Learn in 2022
The past two years have served as a wake up call for Americans everywhere. We’ve detailed this in our prior post on what
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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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Prepper food supply: 6 Long-lasting foods you need in your pantry
Preppers always make sure that they have food to eat in an SHTF scenario. They know that things can turn for the worse without
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Affordable Off-Grid Solar Electric
Would you like to add off-grid solar to your preps, but think it’s too expensive? I’ll show you how to build an inexpensive
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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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How to Start Your Own Survival Garden
Whether you’re living off-grid or in a city, access to food is one of the first concerns for a prepper. Food shortages are highly likely
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Canning Pumpkin
Canning pumpkin is a great way to add more nutrition to your food pantry. Aside from making pies, pumpkin can be added to
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7 Useful Tips for Raising Chickens in Your Backyard for the First Time
Raising chickens in your backyard can be quite rewarding and exciting, especially for beginners. After all, chickens can be a great source of
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Using Fish to Create Organic Fertilizer
In this article we’re going to discuss how you can grow plants using fish in an aquaponics system. Aquaponics is the combination of
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How to Grow Your Own Urban Vegetable Garden
Choosing to grow your own urban vegetable garden is a massive step towards self-reliance. With current events being what they are, supply disruptions,
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8 Inexpensive Options for Small Space Gardening
With many options for inexpensive small space gardening out there, attempts to grow food in an urban environment can be successful . With
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Not just a weed: 5 Ways to use dandelions in your kitchen
Dandelions will pop up just about anywhere, from the side of the road to the middle of your lawn. But don’t get rid
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Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard (and Why You MUST Go to Battle)
Perhaps the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden. Instead of bullets, there will be seeds. Instead of chemical warfare,
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