5 (More) Foods That Last Forever
When planning and storing food for emergencies or survival situations, we have long advocated incorporating foods that will last forever (or at least
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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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Organic Farmer Grosses $100,000 Per Acre on 8 Acre Farm
Imagine earning $100,000 per acre on your organic farm. Well, you don’t have to imagine. It’s possible and Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser have
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Garden Hacks – Repurpose Everyday Items
When it comes to preparedness – or life in general – there’s a ton to buy. When we can reuse something, it helps.
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Stacking Functions: Increasing Yields & Decreasing Labor with Multi-Function Elements
You don’t have to buy into any woo-woo-ology or being “green” to reap the benefits of some of the concepts to come out
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Sustainable Gardening: What To Do Before You Plant Your Seedlings
To live more sustainably, I have a small garden bed in my backyard to grow food for my family. Although it isn’t as large
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How To DIY A Greenhouse: 9 Projects For Your Homestead
Today’s article is as green as it gets, because it’s about DIY-ing greenhouses. How do you build a greenhouse, you ask? The easy answer
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Lessons From Off-Grid Living
Follow this advice about off-grid living from a 20-year veteran of producing utility-free electricity. The Mathers use diverse renewable energy sources, including several
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Urban Homesteading: Growing Food on an Urban Farm
For those that think you need to have acres and acres of land to live off the grid, check out this family who
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Simple cheap solar homesteading
This is a cool little video that we found about living life off the grid. It contains some great information on how to
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Important Homesteading Preparedness Skills: Learn how to cook from scratch.
It’s quite shocking how many people are completely unable to cook something from scratch. These days the average American home eats a majority
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Alone in the Wilderness
Forget Man Vs Wild, when it comes survival nothing can beat Alone in the Wilderness. Alone in the Wilderness is probably one of
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Tiny Home Movement – Are Tiny Homes Great Mobile Bug Out Locations for Preppers?
I saw a great story yesterday about a family who rebuilt their life after losing both their home and business to the recession,
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5 Things You Need to Go Off Grid Now – Pt. 1
Like some of you reading the Prepper Journal, I have long wanted the ‘Prepper dream’ of a large tract of mostly wooded land,
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5 Things You Need to Go Off Grid Now – Pt. 2
Our last article; the first in this series of 5 things you need to go off grid now, began with the concept
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5 Things You Need to Go Off Grid Now – Pt. 3
Welcome back to our series on the 5 things you need to go off grid now, where we began with the premise that
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5 Things You Need to Go Off Grid Now – Pt. 4
Welcome back to this series on the 5 things you need to go off grid now, where I have been discussing the scenario
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