Why Turning Back To Our Fathers’ Skills Makes Sense
A little over a hundred years ago, most Americans were still fairly independent. They grew their own food, or traded for it. They didn’t depend...
Back To Basics: How To Preserve Food In Lard
When I was growing up, it was a given that the bacon grease would be sitting by the stove in Grandma’s tin canister. Or maybe...
10 Important Things You Should Know Before Starting a Homestead
Are you tired of being strapped to “the man”? Are you striving to live a simpler lifestyle? If so, homesteading is for you. When most...
How To Incubate & Hatch Eggs
Whether you’re raising chickens, ducks, geese or other fowl for meat or eggs, knowing how to incubate and hatch various species of fowl is an incredibly...
Peasant Communities Survived On This Simple And Nutritious Food For Centuries
Peasant food, while simple and frugal, has been around for centuries – in every culture around the world. Using fresh roots, herbs, and foods available...
Cape Town “Day Zero”: How To Survive When The City Turns Off The Taps
Here in the United States, we rarely hear much about what’s going on in the rest of the world. Our news media is so focuses...
How to Trim a Goat’s Hooves in 5 Simple Steps to Prevent Infection
For some people, homesteading is scary. You have to deal with animals, plants, and a whole new different lifestyle. Well, one thing I’m learning to...
How To Find And Use Quartz For Survival
When the body of Otzi the Iceman was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps, a window opened, and that window gave us a glimpse of...
Planning Your Homestead Orchard: Benefits of Dwarf Trees
We spend a lot of time looking at annual crops and gardens, but perennials have their places. When it comes to fruit trees, we have many...
How Much Water Does Your Vegetable Garden Need?
Water is the most essential resource plants need to survive, but gauging how much water your vegetable plants need can be difficult as there’s really...
How to Make Cob Bricks For Your Off Grid Home
What are you going to do if someday you lose your home in a large-scale disaster of some sort and you have to build a...
5 Forgotten Plants Our Ancestors Used For Food
What would you say if I told you that there were between 12k and 25k different enjoyably edible things on our planet but we only...