Homesteading
What Happens If You Put Garlic In Your Ear?
A good many of you probably took one look at my title...
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5 Ways Prepping Helped With My Retirement
For most Americans, retirement is one of the biggest worries they have. Giving yourself enough of an income when you don’t work anymore is a...
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Best Survival Foods Your Grandparents Used To Make
Thanks to modern food processing technology, building up a stock of survival rations is easier than it’s ever been. From cheap tinned goods to tasty...
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How to Get a Year Supply of Firewood for $10!
If you are a procrastinator, now is the time. You need to scramble to find plenty of firewood to get through the winter. Using this...
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Useful And Cheap Preps I Got At The Yard Sale
Prepping can be expensive. I get it. I’ve been at this a long time and have had just as many struggles in coming up with...
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How $5 A Week Can Get You 295 Pounds Of Food
Looking at the state of the world today, with all its threats to our society and way of life, it’s easy to think anyone would...
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18 Homesteading Tools to Search for at Garage Sales
I’ve discovered something that was rather surprising – that the ways we do things today aren’t necessarily the best ways to do them. As we...
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25 Things To Improve Your Home Security
With the state of the world today, it’s likely that you’ve begun to see some changes in your neighborhood. If you’ve witnessed increased activity in...
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9 Ways to Heat Yourself Post-SHTF
When SHTF, the first things most people will focus on is trying to find food and water. But if you’re a prepper you know that...
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Your Guide to Bugging In
Although modern emergency infrastructure can handle most small emergencies, the system can quickly break down when faced with large-scale natural disasters and human-induced catastrophic events....
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Top 5 Best Places To Live Off The Grid
The decision to go and live off the grid is one of the biggest life decisions that you can possibly make, and one of the...
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These plants are heroes in their hometowns
This is a field guide to the most common plants found throughout the United States. When traveling outside of the southwest I often found myself...
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Don’t know what to do with that vinegar?
Weeds aren’t just a nuisance if you’re trying to keep your yard tidy and attractive. They can reduce the yield of your crops and even...
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How We Set Up “Our” Outdoor Shed!
Our family just moved into a new home. It’s in a great neighborhood but is rather small in size with only two bedrooms. In addition...
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Hardscaping Projects for Your Backyard
Your home should be your castle. For all the talk in the preparedness community about bugging out and heading for the country, unless your home...
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Simple Steps to Raising Healthy Backyard Chickens
The explosion in popularity of backyard chickens doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, and it’s no wonder why. They are cheap to keep,...
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Mother Nature: Healing What Ails You
Living below poverty level, has, in a sense, forced me to prepare for anything coming my way. Learning the value of plants has saved...
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Build an Outhouse (Privy) with plans from 1909
Outhouse from the rear Besides taking for granted how simply water normally arrives into our homes, sometimes we also fail to consider how easily we...
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Alternative Energy Sources for Your Home
Yes, most of us depend on the local electric company for our energy needs. Not all of us even have the power to choose from...
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The Many Benefits of Raising Chickens
Our family finally took the plunge and invested in baby chicks. My wife and I have talked about raising chickens for years and, honestly, I don’t...
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Winter Prepper Project Ideas – Outdoors
Winter Property Assessments When we think of winter prepper project idea, we commonly think of things that can help us beat or evade the cold...
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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,...
