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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Sustainability
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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The 13 Best Survival Water Filters on the Market
Follow me Water is essential to human life, and whether you are trudging through the Amazon rainforest or surviving a post-apocalyptic disaster; humans
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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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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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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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American Austerity: Are the Massive Power Outages Caused by Failure of Green Energy?
Follow me The Great Reset is continuing apace and every sign that austerity is in the cards for the Western world is flashing.
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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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Is your area’s water supply prone to fluoride hacking?
Follow me The Florida town of Oldsmar recently had its water supply hijacked, resulting in “potentially damaging levels” of sodium hydroxide (lye) being
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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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Pacific Northwest Weather: Surviving and Thriving Outdoors
Follow me The wet, cool and moderate Pacific Northwest weather is a powerful force in shaping the ecology of the land. Understanding its
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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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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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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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Plant these high-calorie vegetables to ensure your survival when SHTF
Follow me Vegetables are great if you’re trying to limit their calorie intake, but these present a problem when SHTF and you’re limited to what
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Benefits of common root vegetables
Follow me Root vegetables are exactly what the name implies – they are the root of the plant. The most common root vegetables
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A Prepper’s Guide to Biogas as an Alternative Fuel
Follow me Venezuela is, as I am writing this, a real survival laboratory. Those conditions created by the geopolitical threats have generated an
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Going Off Grid? How to Prepare for Your First Year
Follow me If you’re looking to start your first off-grid homestead, try to keep your expectations in check. It could take years for
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Going Green: 10 SUSTAINABLE Ways To Use Bamboo
Follow me Because of bamboo’s quick growth and reproduction, it is deemed one of the most sustainable resources we can use. Bamboo can
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