How Much Food Is Enough? Understanding How Long your Food Stores will Last
When starting their food storage people commonly ask: How much food do I need? There are a few considerations to make when deciding on quantity. Each food storage type...
Gardening For The Future – Hay and Straw Bale Gardening
This is the simplest and easiest method of gardening "no work," by far. You plant straw directly into bales, and as the season progresses, the straw is broken down...
Beekeeping for Beginners
In recent years, beekeeping has grown as a hobby to help families grow healthier plants while also helping the families be more self-reliant.
You might be thinking that beekeeping is...
10 WAYS TO USE VINEGAR FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY
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7 Golden Homesteading Rules While You’re Sick
Homesteading’s the fine art of getting your land legs while learning how to do most of the stuff on your own. It’s great to have your own slice of...
19 Early Pioneers Tools That Are Still Working Today
Setting out for the frontier in the 19th century was nothing like moving to a new city today. You weren’t moving to a place with a fully developed infrastructure, where...
Why You Should Place Matches In Your Plant Pots
If someone tells you to put striker matches in potted plants to help them grow, you might think it’s a superstition—but there’s science behind this old wives’ tale. By...
Homesteading After 60 What You Need To Know
My grandparents had a farm in Georgia, where they raised nearly everything they needed. I remember my grandmother telling me that they bought coffee, flour, and sugar.
They raised most...
Toilet Paper Pills – The Best Invention You Didn’t Know You Need
When hiking, camping, or just getting through daily life, there are always times when you need to clean up yourself, your kids, or your space. Most of us keep...
Edible Weeds: Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard
Don’t kill, spray, tear up, or destroy the weeds in your garden, yard, and fence rows. Many of them are actually highly-regarded, widely-used, and extremely-valuable medicinal herbs! What could...