Have you ever wanted to begin the homesteading lifestyle but thought, “I don’t have what it takes?” Don’t get discouraged and don’t give up on your dream because you didn’t come from a ...
How to Create a Tiny Edible Window Box Garden
Are you trying to garden with limited space? Do you have vacant windows around your home? If you have windows, you have untapped growing space. You can grow a variety of fruits, vegetables, and ...
14 Ways to Use Emergency Communication When Disaster Strikes
Most of us can remember that day. We all sat helplessly as we watched planes flying into buildings, people running frantically from disaster, and heard loved ones crying out on the news as they ...
How to Salt and Smoke Food to Preserve Them and Add More Flavor
Are you interested in learning how to preserve your foods using different methods? When I first began preserving my own foods, I was fully consumed with canning. Though canning, freezing and ...
How to Make Delicious Homemade Wine from Leftover Frozen Fruit
Do you end up with a lot of frozen fruits in your freezer at the end of each season? It’s great to have them on hand, but they also take up a good amount of room which could be used for other ...
3 Easy Methods to Pasteurize Goat Milk at Home
Congratulations! You did it! You invested in dairy goats, figured out how to milk them, and have delicious goat’s milk looking you in the face. Now, what should you do with it? The next step is a ...
13 Survival Food Perfect for Your Bug Out Bag and Emergencies
To quote Ahmed Mostafa (with a slight modification): "It's not the stuff we face that defines us, it's how we deal with it." And with that in mind, how well prepared are you if some disaster were ...
Burying Food for Preservation – Is It Still a Good Idea?
Would you ever consider burying your food out in your yard like a squirrel does his beloved nut? We might find this a little odd now, but our ancestors did this to preserve their food over the ...
14 Considerations When Looking for a Practical Bug Out Location
It's a reality that various areas of the U.S. face some type of disaster, often fairly regularly. Floods, tornadoes, cyclones, earthquakes, and forest fires are periodically in the news, not to ...