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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Homesteading
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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Medicinal Herb Gardening Using Permaculture Techniques
Follow me Medicinal herb gardening is a wonderful way to begin incorporating permaculture into your life. Growing useful medicinal plants allows you to
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How to grow chilli peppers
Follow me Growing chillies at home is easy, and there’s a huge variety of different types to choose from. Whether you want flavour,
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Survival medicine: How to make tinctures for your SHTF first aid kit
Follow me Herbal tinctures are liquid herbal extracts that confer protective effects against infections and diseases better than capsules or supplements. This is because
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Winter squash with recipe for squash fries
Follow me It’s harvest time for winter squashes. How many of these beauties have you tried? Acorn Butternut Delicata Hubbard Kabocha Spaghetti Sweet
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Cook Like Grandma with these Bacon Fat Gingersnaps
Follow me I love finding news ways of using things I would otherwise throw out. The uses for bacon grease are too many
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Your path towards Food Freedom: Simple and cheap home gardening innovations
Follow me Food freedom is a top concern for many people, whether they be natural health enthusiasts, environmentalists, or simply concerned about the
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