Homesteading
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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,...
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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...
