How To Choose The Best Plants For Your Soil Type
While many of us take for granted that sticking a seed in the soil and watering it will grow a plant, this isn't always the case. For instance, shoving a watermelon seed in heavy clay soil will probably end up with a plant. That's true. Your single watermelon you...
A Homesteader’s Worst Enemy
Homesteading is an incredible journey filled with joy and rewards. But let's be honest, it's not all rainbows and butterflies. From backbreaking labor to weather uncertainties, homesteaders face a whole lot of challenges. Yet, amidst all these hurdles, one foe truly...
DIY Potato Tower
As a homesteader, I find joy in being self-sufficient and growing my own produce in a small garden. While I may not have truckloads of produce, I believe in sharing the easiest and less complicated methods to cultivate salad greens, tubers, fruits, and vegetables. One...
Cover Crops – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Homesteaders have been planting cover crops for ages. However, these unsung field heroes have often been misunderstood as competitors to our beloved cash crops. For decades, we diligently focused on maintaining tidy fields, believing that anything other than our main...
This Is The No #1 Enemy Of Potatoes
"Oh," you say to yourself. "What a pretty little bug!" Ah, but little do you know that this bug is out to hurt your feelings and ruin your day. Its brightly striped body, it's cute little roundness; that bug is murdering your potatoes as your croon over how cute it...
Ingenious Ways To Keep The Critters Out Of Your Pantry
Even before setting up my homestead, I was always afraid of critters. After all, it's natural to be cautious because these creatures can actually destroy your precious fruits in no time. However, my fear was triggered when some serious critters invaded my pantry. To...
What Molasses Does To Your Garden
I don't often talk about the exact procedure that you need to work with to make the best of your blossoms and to heavily fertilize your plants. ...And, let's be real, to make your entire garden area smell like someone's just baked something delicious. Today, I'm...
How To Get Rid Of Spiders Naturally
Spiders have a lot of benefits. They can eat annoying pests like mosquitos and insects and are good for the ecosystem. However, certain varieties are venomous or painful if they bite you or your child. Instead of killing them, look for a solution to keep them away....
Native American Recipes Every Homesteader Must Know
Today we'll be looking at several general Indigenous recipes from the North American continent. I think every homesteader should know and try these Native American recipes. These are not specific to any tribe but are a common element in many nomadic tribes' cooking....
Stop Storing These 10 Foods For Emergencies
One of the first steps in preparing for any kind of emergency is making sure that you have sufficient stores of food. Whether because of logical delays, or complete societal collapse, keeping at least a few days’ worth of food for you and your family can be one of the...
How To Dry-Cure Meat At Home
Updated: 09.07.2025 Dry curing meat is an ancient method of preserving food. It has been used for centuries across many different cultures, providing a way to store food while preserving its flavor and nutritional value. In dry curing, a combination of several...
How to Bake Bread Off-Grid
This is my favorite recipe of bread. Why? Because it’s as simple as it gets. I don’t really follow his recipes to the letter, so this is my simple spin on stick bread. I pack in a Ziploc sandwich bag full of flour. I put the Ziploc bag inside of another Ziploc bag to...
Fermented Foods You Should Eat This Winter
The cold weather is here, and you know what that means: lots of cozy evenings curled up with a good book and a mug of hot cocoa. But while we're all about coziness, we also want to take advantage of the restorative powers of nature. So how can you get those winter...
How To Keep Eggs Fresh For 12+ Months
Eggs. It’s incredible just how versatile these little guys are and just how much we depend on them. Whether over easy, hard-boiled, baked in a cake or cookies, or used as a binder, it’s unlikely that a week goes by when you don’t use what might just be the world’s...
What Is the Best Canned Meat?
Every homesteader’s pantry has canned food in it. It’s the first line of defense against starvation in a disaster scenario. While canned foods shouldn’t make up all your food storage, there are some benefits that canned foods present. The biggest is the value. Canned...
How to Make Homemade Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese is one of those things that has far more ingredients than it should when you buy it at the store. Homemade cottage cheese is creamy, fluffy, and delicious, and it’s made with only 3 simple ingredients: organic milk white vinegar salt To compare, here...
Amish Lessons That Prepare You For Living Off The Grid
There are dozens of potential crisis scenarios that we face these days. One of the scariest is the loss of our power grid. Whether this happens due to hackers, an EMP blast (electromagnetic pulse), or some other factor, a complete lack of power is a scary scenario in...
This Is The Best Camouflage For Your Off The Grid House
Off-the-grid housing has become increasingly popular over the years because it’s cheaper, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. They’re self-sufficient and don’t need public utilities such as gas, electricity, and water. They can also be located in remote areas...
Lemons
Homesteading is all about living off the land and self-sufficiency. Lemons are a common fruit grown by homesteaders but they don’t just make a delicious addition to recipes, there are many uses for them around your homestead. So, if you have an abundance of lemons and...
Tomatoes + Eggshells
When planting tomatoes, it seems that everyone has a preferred niche or requirement for them. Some people say to plant them in the furthest west corner of your garden to really give them that early morning sunlight, which they do seem to love. Others will tell you...
Unplugged and Online: Off-Grid Internet
For you folks who wish to move off the grid but worry about how to stay connected to the internet, there are many ways to do it. In this day and age, it doesn’t much matter where on the planet you live, there is likely some means of getting internet. 100 Miles In The...
100-Year-Old Way To Filter Rainwater In A Barrel
People have been filtering rainwater in barrels for over a century. Collecting nutritious rainwater in a rain barrel from a roof, has many uses: from watering lawns, gardens, or indoor plants to doing laundry. This process has many benefits. Collecting roof runoff in...
“Those people aren’t off grid!” – How dare they claim that!
The following was written by two off-grid people, Ron and Johanna Melchiore, and sent to you via satellite for distribution on social media. A couple of weeks ago, our publisher put up a short video clip on social media of Johanna and me. That video clip touted our...
How A Homesteader Should Prepare For A Blackout
Electrical blackouts are an increasingly common event in many parts of the world. Whether due to natural disasters, like hurricanes, freezing rains, etc, or manufactured disasters, such as cyber-attacks, EMPs, blackouts can cause severe disruptions to finances,...
