How to Create DIY Self-Defense Tools With Items in Your Home March 29, 2017tpd Comment Follow me When guns aren’t available or allowed, using the items at hand may be your best choice in a bad spot for [...]
The Secret to Building a Salad Keyhole Garden March 27, 2017March 27, 2017tpd 7 Follow me A keyhole garden is a remarkably adaptable element that works in a range of garden styles. Visiting other people’s gardens is [...]
Lessons from History – Hand Powered Tools March 24, 2017tpd Comment Follow me Crank It Out When we hear “crank it out”, we tend to be hearing “get it done”. We have a lot [...]
Sustainable Gardening: What To Do Before You Plant Your Seedlings February 13, 2017March 27, 2021TESS PENNINGTON Comment Follow me To live more sustainably, I have a small garden bed in my backyard to grow food for my family. Although it isn’t [...]
Hay and Straw Bale Gardening: Everything You Wanted to Know for the Best Bounty Ever February 8, 2017October 31, 2019TESS PENNINGTON 2 Follow me Two years ago, we moved into a house that had an abandoned garden; and to put it bluntly, the garden was [...]
How to Make Pemmican: A Step-By-Step Guide January 5, 2017July 29, 2022tpd Comment Follow me We’re going to do an introduction on making pemmican, a survival and backpacking food that can be used all year round [...]
Projects For The Urban Survivor: DIY Tripwire Alarm December 20, 2016tpd Comment Follow me Tripwire alarms are among the simplest yet most effective ways for setting up a home security system. If you don’t want [...]
Introduction to Building a Storage Shed – Part 2 December 6, 2016tpd Comment Follow me In Part 1 of Introduction to Building a Storage Shed we considered why as a Prepper or survivalist you might want [...]
Introduction to Building a Storage Shed – Part 1 December 6, 2016tpd Comment Follow me Why would you want to do this? Look at the name: STORAGE Shed. Most everybody “needs” more storage because they can’t [...]
EMP Survival: 3 Ways To Build A Faraday Cage December 6, 2016tpd 1 Follow me Storing a few key electronics that would be of use in a protracted power grid failure will ensure that you’ll still [...]
7 Off-grid Projects for Survivalists November 30, 2016November 30, 2016tpd Comment Follow me Going partially or totally off grid is very doable. There are advantages to not relying too much or completely on commercial [...]
23 Emergency Foods That Last Forever October 21, 2016October 24, 2016tpd 2 Follow me The best emergency food options are items your family likes to eat that also have a long shelf life.Non-perishable foods high [...]
6 One-Day Preparedness Projects & Skills October 20, 2016October 20, 2016tpd Comment Follow me A ton of preparedness projects and skills can be completed in as little as an afternoon, regularly with minimal outlay of [...]
How To Make Money Off Grid: Making A Living From Your Homestead October 3, 2016tpd Comment Follow me Living off the grid is one thing. Actually making a living while living off the grid is quite another thing altogether. [...]
Food Preservation Techniques: Learn How to Pickle September 28, 2016May 24, 2022Guest Contributor Comment Follow me I am not an enthusiastic cucumber pickle eater. I pretty much like two kinds: bread-and-butter pickles made into a relish to [...]
Tools You’ll Need When Manufacturing No Longer Exists August 22, 2016August 22, 2016tpd Comment Follow me You wouldn’t be reading this article trying to figure out what tools you needed to build stuff with if you thought [...]
Making Your Own Solar Powered Motorhome August 4, 2016tpd Comment Follow me What if you could design a completely independent motor home that uses solar power or grid power to charge batteries to [...]
How To DIY A Greenhouse: 9 Projects For Your Homestead July 29, 2016tpd Comment Follow me 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 [...]
How to Make Cottage Cheese and Sour Cream from Raw Milk July 12, 2016January 7, 2023Daisy Luther Comment Follow me Do you have a source of delicious, creamy raw milk? Or, as our grandparents used to call it, milk? If you [...]
Ropes And Knots: Basics for Survival and Everyday Use July 5, 2016March 21, 2017tpd Comment Follow me There’s good reason our military have trained men to tie them for generations. Knots has always been a skill the inexperienced take [...]
Harvesting Rainwater From Fog Is 500% More Effective Than Other Methods June 24, 2016June 24, 2016tpd Comment Follow me Fog harvesting is effective technology that pulls water from the air for drinking and irrigation purposes. Fog harvesting is becoming a [...]
20 Ways to Build a Whole Food Kitchen on a Half Price Budget June 17, 2016June 17, 2016tpd Comment Follow me Making a trip to the grocery store these days is like running a gauntlet. From one side you are assaulted by [...]
Hardtack: A Simple DIY Survival Food From History June 12, 2016June 13, 2016tpd Comment Follow me With only two ingredients and a little time you can stockpile a survival food that’s been used for centuries. Let’s take [...]
Top 10 Ways to Live Off the Grid -Primitive Electricity June 7, 2016March 30, 2017tpd Comment Follow me Top 10 Ways to Live Off the Grid -Primitive Electricity Using the Wind, Waves, Forest, and Sun to Create Electricity A [...]