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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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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