Do I Need to Dig My Vegetable Plot or Allotment Every Year?
The answer to this question is: not necessarily. It might surprise those of you who are used to digging over your vegetable allotment religiously every...
How to Remove a Large Tree Stump in the Lawn
A tree stump in one’s lawn isn’t exactly the most aesthetically-pleasing object to have around. In fact, it can be downright unsightly. However, how exactly...
Surviving Off-grid: Use Pipes And Ducts To Generate Electricity
A prepper’s mind will always find ways to survive when others won’t see any way out of the crisis. When it comes to generating electricity, there...
How to Find Direction Using the Sun and Stars
Editor’s note: The following excerpt was taken from FM 21-76: Survival Evasion and Escape, an Army field manual published in 1968. Guiding by Sun and Stars...
Permaculture Zone Planning for When Winter is Coming
Something that can be of value to any prepper at any stage of development, even urban preppers in tight dwellings, is planning. Permaculture’s sectors and zone maps are...
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...
What You Don’t Know About Raising Pigs For Survival
Have you noticed the price of bacon lately? How about pork chops? Pork prices are soaring. Besides costing an arm and a leg, grocery store...
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,...
Kids on the Homestead: 57 Age Appropriate Chores to Keep Everyone Busy
There is something to be said about kids being raised on a farm. They learn things that they need later in life whether they realize...
Dew Collecting Greenhouse to Fight Water and Food Scarcity
In many parts of the world, droughts and an increasingly dry, arid climate have lead to water scarcity and in tandem, food scarcity too. A...
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...
How to Safely Chop Firewood With the Correct Ax
If you have never chopped firewood out of need, or if it seems you are never finished out of need, here are some helpful hints...