Are You Ready for a Long-Term Water Emergency?
Follow me Are you truly prepared for a water emergency? How long could your family survive if the water stopped flowing from the
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Sustainability
Canning And The Four Levels Of Disaster: Are You Prepared?
Follow me Using the four levels of disasters introduced in an earlier OP article, I will take a close look at canning as a
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Urban gardening: 6 Vegetables to grow in your backyard
Follow me Home gardening is a rewarding practice because it gives you access to nutritious vegetables throughout the year. But gardens aren’t just
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Drought-Stricken Lake Mead Less Than 150 Feet From “Dead Pool”
Follow me The surface of Lake Mead, North America’s largest artificial reservoir, now stands at 1044 feet above sea level and is dropping
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How To Make Zucchini Flour
Follow me Squash is considered a no-fuss seed variety that can be a prolific producer if given the right elements. Since it is one of the
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DIY Bunker: Turning Your Basement Into a Survival Shelter
Follow me Most people think that bunkers are only used during wars, however, they apply to everyday life and basements can serve as
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Home gardening: Growing ripe, juicy tomatoes
Follow me Fresh, tasty tomatoes are great in salads, sandwiches or salsa. But instead of buying tomatoes at the grocery store, save money
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Prepper project: How to turn a garden shed into a greenhouse
Follow me A garden shed is perfect for storing your gardening tools and supplies, but as a prepper you can turn it into
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Planning Your All-season Garden
Follow me The food garden, you could say, is a gateway garden. For is there anyone who does not savor freshly pickedlettuce, or
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Home gardening tips: How to grow flowers and vegetables in bucket planters
Follow me If space is an issue and you want to start a home garden, try container gardening — specifically, bucket planter gardening.
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Watering and garden soil: 10 Irrigation techniques to use in your home garden
Follow me Managing a homestead can be tiring, especially if you have a large garden. To make things easier for yourself when it’s
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10 Seeds You Need for the Survival Garden
Follow me Survival seeds are one of those long-term preparedness measures that every family should have. If the days come when a survival garden is needed,
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How to Desalinate Water and How It Could Change the Water Crisis
Follow me Whether the water delivery system stops functioning, or the water supply becomes tainted, you can practically guarantee that our precious H2O
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What a Category 6 Hurricane Looks Like and Why It Could Be Right Around the Corner
Follow me Hurricanes are getting worse and more severe. They’re bigger, wetter, stronger, and slower. Scientists agree that the 2022 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, spanning June
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Grow Salad Greens and Herbs in Containers
Follow me Salad greens and herbs are among the easiest food plants to grow from seed in pots. In fact, it makes sense
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Unusually High Bee Die-Off In Canada Will Impact The World
Follow me An unusually high honey bee die-off in Canada is going to impact the world’s farming system. Bees are necessary pollinators and
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Cut-And-Come-Again Gardening Will Boost Your Production
Follow me Many vegetables can be grown, harvested, and will continue to grow for later harvests. This is called a cut-and-come-again garden, a
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3 Sustainable Ways To Reduce Your Dependence on the Supply Chain
Follow me It’s no secret that the supply chain disruptions have created global impacts on us. Many of us are feeling the burn
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Start Gardening Differently
Follow me Preparedness and self-sufficiency usually turns to food production at some point. Whether we’re old hats or just getting started, there are some
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How to Build a Backyard Greenhouse from Scratch
Follow me Throughout this web site, and in my book Free Landscape Plants!, I teach you many ways to grow your own landscape
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In Defense of Organic Farming
Follow me By now, even the mainstream media widely acknowledges the fertilizer shortage. Between fertilizer shortages, drought, shipping problems, and fuel shortages we face an ugly winter. And
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Can’t Find Sugar? Here are Some Alternatives.
Follow me Sugar is yet another thing that can be difficult to come by these days. It was rationed during the lockdowns and
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5 Nutritious, fast-growing vegetables that you need in your home garden
Follow me Not all vegetables take several months to mature. Even if you’re not an experienced gardener, there are plenty of vegetables that you
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Trail Foods from History – Food Preservation Ideas
Follow me One of the challenges that regularly comes up when we talk about bug-outs is food for our bug out packs, and even
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