12 Wild Medicinal Plants You Should Harvest This Fall

When you think of herbal remedies and medicinal herbs, modern natural healing may come to mind. Using wild medicine is a secret to keep away from the threat of...

Plants You Should Grow Around Your House To Repel Insects And Bugs (Including Termites)

No one likes to be bugged; at least, no one that I know likes to be. And we live in a world where we are surrounded by bugs; billions...

Top 10 Foods to Grow for Survival

If the collapse happens and you are in survival mode, your long-term food requirements must be taken into consideration. Finally, whatever food you have packed away will run out...

The 5 Seeds That You Need to Stockpile in Your Pantry

The world is already struggling with food supply and crop management. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) foresaw a general global climate warming over the next few decades....

How Cherokees Used Trees of Southern Appalachia for Food, Medicine, and Craft

Foraging wild food requires practice, knowledge and experience on your landscape. Note that I used the word your land. Perhaps what you read in books and watched on YouTube...

39 Items You Can Compost

There are excellent reasons why you should make compost at home rather than throw the rubbish away. Finding landfill space is becoming a global challenge, and throwing away waste...

Best States for Homesteading

Homesteading's best state depends on many factors, and might not be the same for everyone. Every state has advantages and disadvantages, so what's right for you will depend on...

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...

21 Wild Edibles You Can Find in Urban Areas

You don't have to leave the town to get foraging started. Life finds a way, often through gaps in the pavement and vacant lots. When you learn to recognize...

How to Harvest Seeds Properly and Sustain a Year Round Food Supply

How do you grow seeds? It can be difficult to harvest seeds, requiring patience, practice and a good deal of knowledge. That said, it is an extremely satisfying undertaking. Eventually,...