This Is How I Disappeared From the Grid
The grid is defined in many ways. There’s the power grid, the communication grid defined by the Internet and other communication services, and even...
Power Outage: How To Survive The First 7 Days
This 7-day blackout scenario draws from a real experience with a prolonged power outage. It occurred during a period when supply chain issues and...
Never Feed This To Your Livestock
The sound of my prize cow struggling to breathe at 3 AM still haunts me. One simple feeding error – wild cherry leaves in her hay – nearly cost me...
How to Keep Looters Off Your Property After a Disaster
Something that often follows a disaster is another form of disaster. Looting has become all too common in disaster areas, especially when...
How to Get Running Water When the Next Hurricane Hits
Though food and shelter are of exceptional importance during a natural disaster, we cannot live for long without water. It is a simple fact of life...
Household Items People Repurposed During the Great Depression
During the Great Depression, when times were incredibly hard, people got by by repurposing everyday household items. Homesteaders can take...
How to Become Invisible Wherever You Live
An open yard is an open invitation. Regardless of the situation, an open yard provides easy access to all doors, windows, and just about anything...
I Wish I’d Known This Before Building A Root Cellar
Before the days of refrigeration and year-round access to fresh vegetables, folks had to figure out how to store their harvest to last through the...
DIY Cowboy Cough Syrup with Whiskey
There are four types of cough: dry, wet, allergy, and asthmatic. You've probably gone through at least one of these. The Wild West cowboys had a...
Do This To Your Wood Stove Before Winter
Many of us homesteaders have wood-burning stoves. Some of us use it as a supplement to a furnace or other type of central heating system. Others are...
I Wish I Stockpiled These Before The Hurricane Hit
While I may not always be the top-notch prepper I, perhaps, should be; I do like to be prepared. In fact, whenever a storm is forecast to hit us,...
Items You Need to EMP-Proof Before It’s Too Late
When power goes out, most homesteaders reach for their backup generator. But what happens when every circuit board within a thousand miles gets...
Don’t Throw Away Used Cooking Oil! Do This Instead
Don’t toss out expired cooking oil! One of the essentials of a self-sufficient lifestyle is getting resourceful and finding different uses for...
The First 7 Days After Hurricane Helene Hit My Homestead
This article may be a little more intense than you're used to from me. Hurricane Helene was forecast to hit the Atlanta area. Instead, it barreled...
High-Risk Looter Places You Have To Stay Away From In A Crisis
Desperation can drive ordinary people to extremes. Over the years, I’ve seen how quickly society’s rules crumble when disaster strikes. Places that...
Hide This Immediately If You Have It On Your Property
There are plenty of items related to homesteading that we’d want to keep hidden from outsiders—like food, water, essential gear, tools, gold,...
11 Items To Look For At An Amish Market
If you’re preparing for an emergency, a natural disaster, or simply aiming to live off the grid, it’s important to have supplies that work without...
I Tried Drinking Water From My Stockpile and This Is What Happened
Without water, it doesn’t matter much what other preparations you’ve made – you’re only going to survive for a matter of days. In a crisis, the...
How To Store Your Food If You Don’t Have A Lot of Space
Worried your tiny homestead can’t support your self-sufficiency goals? Produce piling up with nowhere to go? Don’t panic just yet. Here's how to...
Homesteading Items You Should Get From The Thrift Store
Times are tough. Money’s tight. And new gear? It costs an arm and a leg. That’s why I LOVE thrift shops. Yep, you heard me right. I love getting...
7 Survival Skills You’ll Need After the Collapse
In a world where the systems we have come to depend on collapse, survival hinges on a set of skills most in society have never learned. These skills...
