First Aid During Winter: Can You Handle It?
In an emergency situation, it’s difficult to provide good first aid even in good weather, but if you must tend to sickness or injury in...
Author: Theresa Crouse
How To Keep Your Farm Animals Safe During Winter
You store back plenty of firewood and make sure the roof and windows are all secure. If you have a fireplace, you may have the...
Freezing and Food – Do They Go Well Together?
One of the biggest problems we have with our food supply in the summer is that the heat makes storage of fresh meat almost impossible...
9 Tips To Smoking Meat Everybody Should Know
Oh the delicious flavor of smoked ribs, brisket, or even fish and seafood… It’s a distinctive flavor, but varies significantly based on your methods. It...
10 Ways To Use Baking Soda For Gardening
Baking soda is one of those multi-purpose items that’s found in every household. It’s used as a leavening agent in baking, as a tooth-whitening agent,...
Back To Basics: Making And Canning Homemade Butter
Butter: you use it to make baked potatoes delicious. You smear it on your biscuits and you make finger-licking sauces with it. But what on...
14 Cheap Ways To Feed Your Chickens
Owning chickens can be an expensive venture if you rely solely on purchased feed. Obtaining the feed will also be a problem if the transportation...
When Canning Goes Bad: 9 Common Mistakes To Avoid
If you’re like me, if you see something you like, you wonder how to make them instead of just buying it from somebody else. This...
Q&A On Storing Meat Without Refrigeration In Hot Areas
You work hard to stretch your grocery dollars, but there’s no way around it – meat is expensive. When you find a good deal, or...
12 Troubles & Solutions For Your Aquaponics System
Setting up an aquaponics system isn’t quite as easy as you may think, though it’s not brain surgery, either. It’s also a great way to...
These Are The Best Mini Cow Breeds For Milk And Meat
Unlike chickens and some other animals, I was raised that there are milk cows and there are meat cows. We had Jerseys to milk and...
7 Fall Medicinal Wild Flowers You Must Harvest
Pretty much anywhere you live in the United States, with the exception of the most desert areas, there are flowers that are rich in medicinal...