Lost Arts: Bringing a Chicken from Pasture to Plate
There are many skills that have been lost over time. Things your great grandparents did in their daily lives that are now left to...
DIY Project: The Easiest Off-grid Fridge
As temperatures warm up, there is a natural tendency to look for ways to keep outdoor lunches cool, or even store other items without spending...
3 Different Compost Making Techniques (and the Advantages of Each)
Every gardener wants their soil to be better and there are many different ways to do this but one of the best and easiest...
Store Veggies For Long Term Step-By-Step
You cannot imagine how comforting it is to have fresh produce in hard times. But sometimes your garden just isn’t ready when you need it, or your...
Teaching Your Children How to Cook: It’s Important That They Know How
About 53 percent of Millennials say they eat at restaurants at least once a week, compared with 43 percent of Generation X or baby...
How to Plant a Quick and Easy Garden in Bags of Soil Without Digging
I May Have Found the Easiest Way Ever to Plant Vegetables! Considering that most gardeners don’t have perfect soil, vegetable garden preparation requires tilling the...
Watering Tomatoes: When & How – 5 Pro Tips
Watering Tomatoes is both a Science and an Art If you love gardening, you’ve probably already asked an expert or yourself this question: “How often...
Five Ways To Preserve Meat In the Wild
Unfortunately, many people are unaware of how to preserve meat without a refrigerator and have completely forgotten how our grandfathers preserved their proteins. If you are stranded in the...
How to Grow Truffles in 7 Easy Steps and Make a Big Profit
Have you ever heard of a truffle? They are very popular in European countries but are considered a delicacy among those that are very...
6 Best Tips For Butchering A Cow
This isn’t necessarily a topic for the faint of heart, but slaughtering and butchering is part and parcel of being at the top of...
How To Make Smoked, Salt Cured Fatback
Mine was truly a lovely childhood. I grew up on salt pork that was stored hanged in our root cellar. Almost anything in our pantry...
The #1 thing a prepper should grow – and you’ve probably never heard of it
Less than a year ago I was watching a YouTube video on gardening and agriculture and I came across the plant known as the...
Survival Homesteading: Crop Production and Storage for Livestock
One of the hardest cords to cut for homesteaders is dependence on commercial feeds. Our modern livestock – even a lot of the dual-purpose...
6 Easy Homemade Breads For A Healthy Life
Bread is a staple in most diets and can be a real lifesaver, literally, when it comes to surviving. Unfortunately modern store-bought bread has...
Help Your Cow Or Goat Give More Milk !
If you have cows or goats for milk, you’ve most likely ran into times when milk production goes down.
Homesteading 101: What Is It and the Essential Steps to Get Started
Have you been hanging around our blog very long? If so, we are so glad you are here. But if you haven’t, you may...