Want Safe Food? Grow Your Own
Follow me Between 1990 and 2009, there were 363 outbreaks of food-borne illness linked to various leafy greens, including iceberg lettuce, romaine, and
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Homesteading
Making a Raised Bed Garden
Follow me Soil in a raised bed can drain sooner and warm up faster in spring, enabling you to plant earlier in the
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Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
Follow me You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the
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Composting the Easy Way
Follow me Having an ample supply of good rich compost is the gardeners dream. It has many uses, and all of those uses
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8 Recipes For Making Homemade Extracts
Follow me There’s nothing like homemade extracts to really bring out the flavor in your baked goods and beverages. Here are 8 delicious,
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Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed
Follow me If you are preparing beds for landscaping around your house this article should simplify the process for you. I say that
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Top 10 Vegetables to Grow Over Winter
Follow me Don’t let your vegetable plot stand empty and neglected over winter. There are plenty of winter vegetables to grow throughout the
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Prepper Gardens – Vertical Expansion
Follow me There are lots of ways to produce food, herbs, and medicines, whether we have small properties with just a patio or
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From being expensive to labor-intensive, here’s the truth behind some of the myths about organic gardening
Follow me People who want to try out organic gardening may hesitate because of the negative things they may have heard or read
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From Tree To Table: Tips For Fresh Maple Syrup
Follow me The freshest, unprocessed, maple syrup comes directly from trees and you can tap into all of that yummy goodness yourself! Not
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Prepare for Disaster with a Portable Generator
Follow me Living or working in a disaster-prone area always requires that you be prepared for the worst. When a natural disaster strikes,
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Get a Head Start on Gardening with Cold Frames
Follow me Using a cold frame is a great way to get a head start on starting your garden or used as a
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Nutritious Food Plants You Can Harvest Quickly
Follow me Admit it, we want things to happen fast. We’re a society of fast food, fast internet, and instant gratification. But when
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10 Best Vegetables for Urban Gardeners
Follow me Before you know it, your urban oasis will be bursting with wholesome produce and you’ll wonder why you waited so long
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Practical Preps: Backyard Projects Big and Small
Follow me Dead of winter or height of summer, there are some relatively quick, easy, and commonly inexpensive projects we can tackle right
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Alternative Cooking Sources for SHTF Planning
Follow me So, the power is out. You have all of this wonderful food stored away but no way to cook it. Before
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The Case for Hybrid Seeds
Follow me Once we join this prepper culture, we start getting pushed toward heirloom seed stockpiles. There’s definitely value in heirloom and open
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Fermented Foods: And No, They Won’t Get You Drunk!
Follow me Fermented foods are a staple in many cultures and are one of the oldest preservation methods. The earliest evidence of winemaking
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Off-Grid Canning Techniques
Follow me Canning is a valuable skill because it’s completely low-tech. If you have a way to boil water, you have a way
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How to store meat long-term when living off-grid
Follow me Preppers know that there are several methods that can be used to prepare meat for long-term storage. However, canning is one
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Checklist For Winterizing Your Home
Follow me Winter disaster scenarios are not something you want to take lightly. In a worst-case scenario, you could be off the grid
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Off-Grid Cooking: How To Smoke Fish
Follow me Over the years, we’ve talked at length on how fish are a great addition to your prepper food supply and taught you
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Canning Bone Broth
Follow me Homemade bone broth is packed full of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients which are excellent for boosting immune function and keeping your
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Do you have a safe source of water for a SHTF situation? Top 5 water purification mistakes
Follow me erybody knows that you need water to live. Without it, you’d be pushing in as little as 72 hours. What isn’t
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