How To Start A Regenerative Garden
Homesteaders and regenerative gardens connect closely through their shared focus on self-sufficiency, sustainability, and resilience. To start a regenerative garden, use sustainable farming practices. These methods help replenish the soil and boost biodiversity. They...
15 Medicinal Plants You Need To Start Growing This Spring
As spring approaches and infuses the earth with new life, now is the time to create your very own healing garden with a variety of medicinal herbs. Nature has blessed us with an unlimited supply of botanical treasures, each containing its own unique restorative...
Avoid These 7 Common Greenhouse Gardening Mistakes
There are several common mistakes people make when they first start greenhouse gardening. Many of our mistakes encourage plant diseases to thrive in the warmth and humidity of the greenhouse, while others lead to poor plant growth. Let’s look at these seven mistakes...
How To Plan Your Vegetable Garden for This Spring
As the winter months come to an end, and the promise of brighter, warmer weather approaches, homesteaders worldwide get ready for the spring season. While spring is considered the best time of the year to sow vegetables, it depends on your location. For example, parts...
If You Don’t Have Enough Space To Grow A Garden, Do This
Have you been dreaming of a garden but you're stuck when it comes to space? If you have even a windowsill available, you can grow something. Today, we'll be looking at a variety of tight space and small-area gardening ideas. Let's get started. Container Gardening The...
Soil Prepping Mistakes
Soil prep is well underway throughout most of the country and whether you're getting ready to restore your garden or you're still dreaming of snowless days, we've got you covered. Here are a few very common (and simple to fix) mistakes that people make when amending...
What Happens If You Use Powdered Milk To Your Plants
Using powdered milk in your garden can leave you with a very interesting aroma around your raised beds. However, if used properly, you can avoid this issue and also reap the benefits of using it. Have a ton of extra? Maybe you even have some powdered formula replacer...
Best Crops For Your Straw Bale Garden
Straw bale gardens are all the rage, especially during the cooler months. Yet so many people contact us to ask what they can grow in them! We thought we'd put together a quick list to help you all find a seed worth planting in your brand-new straw bale garden. Let's...
Tomato Preservation Recipes
When we start to talk about preserving, we usually end up with a canner on our counter. That will be the case for this article, but I must note that you can certainly preserve tomatoes in other ways. You can dry them in a dehydrator or freeze finely chopped bits of...
Deinfluencing You: Stop Stockpiling These 14 Items Right Now
In light of recent unexpected events impacting the United States and the world, there has been a growing awareness among Americans regarding the significance of maintaining emergency provisions like food, medication, and beverages. Being well-prepared for unforeseen...
How To Pickle Watermelon Rind The Amish Way
The Amish are famous for a few things: they live without modern technology, care about nature, and cook fantastic food. They lead a basic life and want to take care of themselves as much as possible because of their strong faith in God. One unique example of their...
Corn Pone – The Pioneers Bread
This may differ from the food you eat regularly, but the classical Corn Pone should be on every homesteader's list of go-to recipes for various reasons. For those not familiar with the dish, let me introduce it to you. This is a traditional Southern dish that has...
10 Civil War Foods Every Homesteader Should Know And Try
The American Civil War was fought between the North and the South, divided only by the Mason-Dixon line on a map. This war was a major turn in American history where brothers fought against brothers. Wartimes are not historically known for feeding soldiers well on...
If You Have This In Your Pantry, Throw It Away Immediately
Having a fully stocked pantry for everyday life or for emergency situations is not always an easy task, there are often so many different variations of foods and varying opinions on what you should and shouldn’t have. I understand the great task of stocking your...
Pioneer Recipes Every Homesteader Should Learn
Ah, howdy! I’m glad y'all just pulled your wagon on up and asked us for some cookin' advice. Okay, I can't write the whole post like that, but we're looking at Pioneer recipes. These are primarily the recipes of white colonialists that were making their way through...
7 Foods You Can Cook From Scraps You Normally Throw Away
Did you know that each year, about 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the US? That equals about 130 billion meals and $408 billion in food thrown away. It is unbelievable to think that nearly 40% of the food in America is wasted every single year. Besides using...
FEMA Will Never Take Your Stockpile If You Hide It Here
A fake electronic outlet. The bottom of a fake plant. A false bottom drawer. All these might sound nice to the unexperienced eye, but there’s no way your whole stockpile will ever fit into those small places. I think you’re just as tired as I am of unrealistic...
This Is How Much Water You Actually Need
Aside from shelter, water is the most critical component for maintaining human life in a survival situation. On average, a human being will die without water in only three days. Depending on the environment, a person’s survival without water could be much less....
The Last Big Blackout Taught Me This
I wasn’t too worried when the lights flickered. It happens, sometimes. It was a stormy night, with the temperature hovering just above freezing and occasional spatters of cold rain lashing the windows. I had no clue it's gonna be a big blackout. People use more power...
6 First Aid Skills You Should Know Before A Crisis
Life on the homestead's like a box of chocolates—you never know what you're gonna get. Between wrangling livestock and tackling DIY projects it's a miracle we make it through a week unscathed. Now, I'm no doomsday prepper, but I've learned the hard way that a little...
The #1 Enemy of Going Off Grid
It’s a lifestyle that survived thousands of years before the onslaught of electricity. Then, when Edison invented the lightbulb, humanity was destined to become controlled by this current flowing through wires. What’s ironic is the lifestyle which is now considered by...
Leaving Your Property Like This Might Get You Killed
My current property is like something right out of a Shell Silverstein poem. The city limits line ends at my property, right where the trails to a massive wilderness preserve begin. If I stand in front of my house and look to the right, I can see the terminus of the...
Read This Before Stockpiling Water
Not many people realize how easily their water stockpile can put them and their families at risk in a crisis. Are you one of those people? Bacteria, viruses, and even parasites can thrive in water that isn’t fresh. That’s when it becomes unsafe to drink. Such...
Medicines Every Homesteader Should Stockpile
In an emergency or grid-down scenario, pharmacies are generally the first establishments targeted for looting. Unfortunately, this has been seen numerous times during natural disasters, riots, and other public outbursts. So, what can you do if you can’t safely get to...
