5 Incredible Ways You Can Use Hemp
If there is such a thing as a wonder plant, hemp is it. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can
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How to Build a Simple Hoop House
The easiest way to protect your plants for the winter is to put them in a row, say 6 or 7 pots wide.
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Cattail Plants: Friend of the Forager, Bushcrafter, and Basket-Maker
Have you ever driven past a marsh, only to see a forest of tall stalks that seem to be topped with hot dogs?
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Virginia Sheriff: ‘I Will Deputize Thousands of Citizens To Protect Their Gun Rights’
Culpepper County, VA — It looks like what Virginia gun owners needed was a wake up call. Or more accurately, a wake up
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Scientists successfully brew beer and mead using 5,000-year-old “resurrected” yeasts discovered in the Holy Land
Want to know what ancient Middle Eastern beer tastes like? Try asking this team of researchers from Israel: In a study published in mBio, microbiologists
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The 10 best egg-laying chickens for a prepper’s homestead
Keeping egg-laying chickens offers several benefits. They supply fresh eggs daily, eat insect pests, and make for a steady source of income by selling
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Stag Arms heads for Wyoming, citing the state’s support for the Second Amendment
After more than 15 years in New Britain Connecticut, AR maker Stag Arms says they are pulling up stakes and moving to the
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Tree Pruning Tips
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the
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6 Very Beneficial Insects: To Know Them Is To Love Them!
Speaking strictly from a gardener’s perspective …There are good bugs and there are bad bugs. And the more you have of the former,
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Prepping 101 – The Ultimate Get Out Of Dodge Vehicle
As you begin to think about preparing your family for a survival type of scenario there are a lot of important considerations. Do
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5 Primitive Skills Preppers Should Know for Survival
To easily operate in an off-grid environment, learn old, forgotten skills and make them new for you. To acquire is good, to improvise
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Want Safe Food? Grow Your Own
Between 1990 and 2009, there were 363 outbreaks of food-borne illness linked to various leafy greens, including iceberg lettuce, romaine, and spinach, causing
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How to prevent and treat nutrient deficiencies during long-term disasters
Nutrient deficiency is a likely and dangerous long-term threat during SHTF scenarios. Preppers and homesteaders must get ready well in advance by stockpiling
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Sustainable Prepping: 5 Alternative Energy Types for When the SHTF
There are actually a lot of different types of energy sources to tap into after a disaster strikes. One of the major differences
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Making Arrowheads: The Art of Flint Knapping
Flint knapping is the age-old art of making arrowheads and other edged stone tools. Hunter-gatherers relied upon this key wilderness survival skill to
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Grid Down Prepping
If you’ve been prepping for a while, you may have used some of your provisions during short-term emergencies. Perhaps you’ve used some when
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Making a Raised Bed Garden
Soil in a raised bed can drain sooner and warm up faster in spring, enabling you to plant earlier in the season. You
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Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the garden, and
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Composting the Easy Way
Having an ample supply of good rich compost is the gardeners dream. It has many uses, and all of those uses will result
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Skills – Stuff: When Stuff Matters More
I generally agree with the premise that skills are far more important than stuff, and that knowledge weighs nothing. There are skills that
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Fantastic flax: Add flaxseeds to your diet to reduce hypertension naturally
Flaxseeds have been prized for the many health benefits they offer. Adding four tablespoons of flaxseeds every day to one’s diet is good for the
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8 Recipes For Making Homemade Extracts
There’s nothing like homemade extracts to really bring out the flavor in your baked goods and beverages. Here are 8 delicious, homemade aromatic
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Native American Basket Weaving
Native American basket weaving was practiced by many different tribes for various uses. They can be used for food gathering, processing hides, cooking,
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Growing Tomatoes in Containers
In a recent gardeners’ survey the tomato took first place in the homegrown vegetable popularity contest. And … no surprise … it wasn’t
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