Prepper Pantry Recipe: Creamy Bean Soup
Follow me Beans are great to stock up on for a future SHTF event. Most soups are creamy thanks to the addition of
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Homesteading
Square Foot Gardening – Waste of Time for Preppers?
Follow me Square foot gardening can be an excellent way to produce a lot of food in a compact space. Added benefits come
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How to Grow Wildflowers
Follow me In the past few years I’ve read about, and have seen more interest in wildflowers, so I figure it’s about time
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Not just a weed: 5 Ways to use dandelions in your kitchen
Follow me Dandelions will pop up just about anywhere, from the side of the road to the middle of your lawn. But don’t
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Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard (and Why You MUST Go to Battle)
Follow me Perhaps the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden. Instead of bullets, there will be seeds. Instead of
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How to Stock a Survival Pantry
Follow me When you start to consider prepping, one of the first things you need to start prepping for is your prepper food
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Essentials for Indoor Seed Starting
Follow me Even if you don’t have access to a greenhouse, you can create conditions that will allow seedlings to thrive. Tops on
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Creating a More Self-Sufficient Garden for the Long Term
Follow me I love gardening. It’s fun, it’s rewarding, and it saves money. However, it’s only useful for prepping purposes in the long
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How to Keep Food Cold Without A Fridge
Follow me In truth, we simply can’t think of living our daily lives without electricity. With the refrigerator working, preserving food, even at
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How to Build a Simple Potting Bench
Follow me The potting bench that you are about to read about is not fancy, but very functional. It is also very easy
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Gardening Keeps You Healthy
Follow me Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to Charles Willson Peale in 1811 at age 68, “But though an old man, I am but
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It’s not just for baking: 9 ways to use baking soda in your home
Follow me Baking soda is one of the most versatile substances that can be found in the kitchen. An ancient compound that got its start around 4 million
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7 tips for creating a successful organic vegetable garden almost anywhere
Follow me There is nothing like enjoying the fruits of your labor, literally! The seeds you just planted turn out as little shoots
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How to Get Rid of Standing Water in Your Yard
Follow me Do you have one or more areas in your yard that hold water after a rainfall? This is a common problem,
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The Pros and Cons of Raised Garden Beds
Follow me Before we get started, I want to say that I’m a huge fan of permanent and raised garden beds. They don’t
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Essential homesteading skills for self-sufficiency
Follow me Homesteading requires diverse skills to truly become self-sufficient. You need to produce your own food, create and mend your clothing, till
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How to Make a Water Filter
Follow me Learning to make a water filter is a valuable survival skill. A thousand years ago people could wander through North America
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Grow your medicine: Japanese goldthread grown with hydroponics is just as potent as wild variants
Follow me Hydroponics is a form of gardening that doesn’t involve soil. Instead, plants are grown in a nutrient solution and a controlled
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Why Your Medicinal Herb Kit Should Have Yarrow
Follow me Yarrow has been used in natural remedies for thousands of years and can be used to treat burns, boils, blisters, ear
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Benefits of Small Backyard Ponds
Follow me There are many benefits of small backyard ponds for both people and the environment. Freshwater habitats of all kinds are currently
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A Prepper’s Guide to Wheat Berries: Versatile, Space-Saving, Long-Term Food
Follow me Do you have wheat berries in your stockpile? Have you used them? It’s very important to learn how to work with
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Water Bath Canning 101
Follow me Canning is one of those things that sounds a lot scarier than it actually is. Cloaked in grandmotherly mystique, it seems
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The Canning Shortage of 2020: Here’s How You Can Find These Essential Supplies
Follow me Sometimes it feels like 2020 is out to get all of us. Especially those of us who can and store our
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Planting and Caring for Flower Bulbs
Follow me There is nothing quite as welcome as those beautiful spring flowers that seem to emerge from nowhere to welcome the arrival
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