1800s Pioneer Items You Should Still Have At Home
The pioneers were some of the most resourceful people in history. After settling in North America as farmers, they went on to establish businesses...
This Is Why You Should Grow Quinoa
If you haven’t yet heard of Quinoa, you’ve been missing out on something special! Quinoa is a flowering plant in the amaranth family native to the...
Straw Bale Gardening
The dream of a simple, contained garden that produces bountiful vegetables drove me to container gardening. When I found insects and birds still...
10 Common Composting Mistakes. Are You Making One Of Them?
Composting is simply using Mother Nature’s recycling system to put back nutrients into the garden ecosystem. Even though there's a lot of composting...
Here’s What You Need to Build a Forager’s Toolkit
Why build a Forager’s Toolkit? Well, as the world experiences further supply chain disruptions and food shortages, now is the perfect time to add...
6 Simple Ways To Naturally Remove Mold
This is the most feared M-word: Mold. Most of the areas in your house you visit daily can have mold. These are a multitude of fungi organisms that...
Homesteading To Do’s: January
For homesteaders, the winter months are a welcome break from the smouldering hot temperatures of the summer. People take this time to catch up with...
What To Do If You Find A Wild Boar On Your Property
Anyone hoping to be a homesteader, or is lucky enough to be one already, needs to anticipate the eventuality of dealing with wild animals. It is...
Meat Prices are SKYROCKETING. Here’s How to Get Ready
I started raising chickens for meat in 2014. I’ve always bought the same feed from the same farmer. Prices have always been about the same. Even...
DIY Rope From Most Common Plants
Knowing how to make a rope is one of the basic skills that everyone needs to survive in the wilderness during an economic breakdown, disasters,...
44 Reasons to Stock Coconut Oil in Your Larder
Offering a myriad of health benefits, coconut oil is affordable, readily available, and completely natural. I use it for EVERYTHING. Literally. I...
Homestead Pantry Tour
When uncertainty strikes, food storage provides peace of mind. A few years ago, I decided I needed to have a better stockpile. I’m sharing my...
10 Canning Recipes From The Amish
The Amish are an intriguing group of people. They are infamous for their wisdom and simple lifestyle. The Amish live according to their religious...
Canning Secrets Nobody Tells You About
Canning is a safe way to preserve food if it is done properly. It involves transferring food into containers and heating them so that any...
H2O Dynamo – This Awesome Device Turns Air Into Fresh Water
Fellow homeowners, You can throw away your water supplies! No matter how much water you store, you’ll never have enough. Plus, you’ll make a lot of...
How to Dry Can Beans and Rice for 20+ Years Shelf Life
Beans and rice, a significant staple in a prepper’s pantry…or, should be. And, if the 2020 pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that we can never be...
This Is Why You Should Have Charcoal Around The Property
Do you have a fire pit or fireplace? If yes, what do you do with the remaining charcoal after using any of the two? My guess is that you gather it...
An Emergency Slush Lamp Hack Using a Torch Plant Leaf
Full credit for this hack goes to our Georgia humidity, a buddy of mine, and my fondness for fire. Trading theory for action is the only way to...
How To Dehydrate Milk For Long Term Storage
When we started on our preparedness journey, I tried to be practical. In the beginning I made a list of things I used everyday. Literally from the...
Making Your Own Toilet Paper
The year 2020 gone down in history as one of the most difficult years that our combined generations have lived through. We have yet to see what the...
How I Live During Winter Without Ever Going To The Supermarket
For most people, going to the supermarket is a weekly ritual where they stock up on the majority of their foods and household goods. Some...
Makin’ Bacon: How to Dry Cure Pork Belly
Vegetarians fear bacon. It’s the “gateway meat”. The temptation heightens with the mere aroma of this sizzling strip tease. Only the most hardcore...
9 Little Tricks To Save Electricity At Home Big Time
Being energy conscious will help you save hundreds of dollars each year without any extra effort. Take a while and think about all those unused...
20 Foods That Can Last 20 Years
We live in an unpredictable world where anything can happen. Typically disasters strike with no warning, which can leave you stranded without the...
A Warning To All New Homesteaders
In the spring of 2015, I was burnt out. I was a twenty-seven-year-old working in the spirits industry, traveling a minimum of 4 days a week...
Homesteading Dollars And Sense
Catchy title huh? Glad you’re here! I’ve read many of the comments associated with our publisher’s posts over the last year and one theme in your...
DIY Cheap Bio Enzyme Solution For Home Cleaning
As a household that has always had pets as part of our family, we have been wary about using products around the house that may be laden with...
Turkeys
Despite their bad reputation for being a bit on the dry side, and prone to disease, turkeys are phenomenal birds. They are sophisticated and regal...
My Day As A Homesteader During Winter
When people think of winter, they think gardening is over for the year and livestock is all harvested in Autumn. Obviously, this looks like downtime...
How to Make Lightweight Oilskin Tarps from Bed Sheets
Disclosure: Your results may vary. Weight – a unit of heaviness or mass; any heavy load, mass, or object; the vertical force experienced by a mass...
How To Build An Outdoor Mud Oven
It all began with sourdough bread: flour, salt and water coming together with time as the catalyst to convert simple, natural ingredients into a...
Pigeons
When it comes to raising fowl on your homestead, one type that is often overlooked is pigeons. They are a great way to raise your own meat with...
