Homesteading
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Lessons from History – The Importance of Water
Throughout history, settlements form near water. The largest and most successful settle with plentiful water. There are a number of reasons for that. One, water...
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Raising Mealworms for Chicken Food
Today we are going to discuss creating a self-replicating food supply for your backyard flock. Yes, we are talking about becoming worm farmers – mealworms,...
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Site Planning for Your Survival Homestead
A great deal can go into site planning for your survival homestead, even when the infrastructure is already in place and funds don’t exist to...
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Small Animal & Livestock Euthanasia on the Homestead – What You Need To Know
Tibby is a young barn cat that will need to be euthanized within the next few days. She is less than a year old and...
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Raising Chickens And Salmonella: Should You Worry?
Live poultry often are carriers of Salmonella – a germ that can be harmful to humans. But how big is the risk? In chickens, Salmonella...
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DIY broths from kitchen scraps
I’m one of those people who really loves soups and stews. A good soup simmering on the stove makes a house feel like home, it...
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Hand Water Pumps Making a Comeback
As recently as 100 years ago, the most important site consideration for homesteaders and villages was whether plenty of good water was within easy reach....
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The Case for Homesteading
Preppers stockpile water, food, security, and health care items for TEOTWAKI or even a lesser SHTF event. This is wise, but it does nothing to...
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Life (and Death) on the Homestead
As a husband, a father, and a prepper, one of the driving forces for the things I do is to protect my family from hardships....
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Cookstoves and the Prepared Lifestyle
Imagine this scenario: It’s the dead of winter. The ground is covered in snow, the temperature is below freezing during the daylight and worse after...
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How To Clip The Wings of Your Chicken
Raising chickens is a relatively low-cost and trouble free way to provide fresh eggs or meat for your family. Right now when everything is fine...
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1881 Cyclopedia Explains Composting Methods and Benefits
When garden composting caught on in the early 1980s, I thought back to my mother sending us kids to the garden every night to bury...
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Beekeeping for Beginners
In recent years, beekeeping has grown as a hobby to help families grow healthier plants while also helping the families be more self-reliant. You might...
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Stacking Functions: Increasing Efficiency with Multi-Function Spaces
Stacking functions is a quick term for the concept of planning things (elements) and areas (space) to perform the most services for us with the...
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Stacking Functions: Increasing Yields & Decreasing Labor with Multi-Function Elements
You don’t have to buy into any woo-woo-ology or being “green” to reap the benefits of some of the concepts to come out of environmentally...
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Planned Parenthood for Preppers
Managed Livestock Breeding Livestock keeping is one of the things that those interested in self-sufficiency regularly end up considering. There are factors involving breeding, especially,...
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Prepper Lessons from History – Castle Gardens
When we think of castles in the medieval periods particularly, we generally think of staid, damp, barren places. Within some areas, they certainly were. It...
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Introduction to Building a Storage Shed – Part 1
Why would you want to do this? Look at the name: STORAGE Shed. Most everybody “needs” more storage because they can’t bear to have less...
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Lessons from History – Staying Warm in Winter
Humanity has survived in some pretty frigid extremes, even before the advent of our sleek ski suits and long underwear. Even so, it doesn’t take...
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Feeding the Beast During SHTF – Disaster Cooking
In a protracted crisis, we’ll be missing a lot of our usual conveniences. While some may already make their own sandwich bread for slicing and...
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Raising Livestock: What You Should Raise and Why
In the case of a SHTF event, we could live without internet, cars and gadgets. We could survive without electricity, air conditioning, heating systems...
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Saving Money with Homemade Laundry Soap
Saving money is most times easier than making it and I have found a way to save LOTS of money. In our home we seem...
