How to Grow Potatoes in Shopping Bags for an Extended Harvest
Not only is the harvesting of your potatoes in bags a smart way to grow them in small spaces, it can also prolong the harvest time. Additionally, keeping pests...
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...
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...
Vegetable Garden Planning for Beginners
Hopefully, you are already in full swing on your own garden, but if you have been putting it off, or are still conducting research on how to start your...
10 Ways to Use Socks in a SHTF Situation
Great for keeping you warm in the summer and for every imaginable situation that involves dry feet – you know them, you love them, and you simply cannot do...
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...
One Month Meal Plan For Just $65
Whether you have several years’ worth of food set aside or you keep a more modest reserve, most of us probably have some kind of emergency food supply or...
Planning Your Homestead Orchard: Benefits of Dwarf Trees
Dwarf Trees – When Less is More
We spend a lot of time looking at annual crops and gardens, but perennials have their places. When it comes to fruit trees, we...
16 Items FEMA Tells You to Stockpile and Why
Those of us who are part of the prepping and survival community tend to look down our noses at the government’s emergency response agency, FEMA. Granted, there’s plenty of...
15 Ways to Repurpose Coca-Cola
Everybody loves it, and everybody hates it – that’s what I like to call the Coca-Cola paradox. Even though the doctors scream at the top of their lungs that...
