Homesteading
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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,...
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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...
