Practical Preparedness – Planning by Prevalence When we jump on preparedness sites, sometimes we’re immediately struck by the enormous load...

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 renova...

Welcome back to our series on the 5 things you need to go off grid now, where we began with the premise that going “off grid” might not be somethi...

Our last article; the first in this series of 5 things you need to go off grid now, began with the concept of preppers looking for an ideal life of [&...

Dwarf Trees – When Less is More We spend a lot of time looking at annual crops and gardens, but perennials have their places. When it comes to fruit...

If the world all went to hell in a hand basket today, you would probably be stuck with what you have now in your possession and what you know or [&hel...

I generally agree with the premise that skills are far more important than stuff, and that knowledge weighs nothing. There are skills that benefit us,...

Have you ever wondered what you would do for work after the end of the world as we know it? There are many ideas out there and we have even […]...

Don’t kill, spray, tear up, or destroy the weeds in your garden, yard, and fence rows. Many of them are actually highly-regarded, widely-used, and e...

As recently as 100 years ago, the most important site consideration for homesteaders and villages was whether plenty of good water was within easy rea...

If we want to be successful at gardening or raising crops, and most of us do, there are some things that can make us much more efficient and successfu...

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 least...