When and if Stuff Hits the Fan (SHTF), having printed books on hand is absolutely vital for everyone's well-being. Digital reference books are great and all, but if you don't have a means of ...
Food Security Garden: Smart Ways to Supplement Your Food Budget
Food prices keep skyrocketing, but our incomes aren't necessarily increasing to match them. Cultivating a food security garden at home is an ideal way to keep food on the table when money's tight. ...
A Basic Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Homestead Herbalism
Knowing how to heal yourself and your family members with plants that grow around your home is an invaluable skill to have. This is especially true in rural locations where medical care is scarce or ...
Improve Your Food Security With These 12 Tips
If there's one factor that has influenced every single human society since we first began walking upright, it's food security. Food is life, and civilizations have risen and fallen based on ...
10 Essential Knots to Learn for the Homestead
When you think about all of the tools and resources used on a farm or homestead, knots may not be at the top of your list. After all, most of them are used unconsciously rather than with focus and ...
19 Edible Plants In Your Yard That You Didn’t Know You Could Eat
Have you ever wondered what you would do if you couldn't buy fresh food, and your vegetable garden couldn't keep up? A lot of us know about common foraging plants that we look for when out and ...
13 Important Things to Do During a Heatwave
Any homesteader, farmer, or avid gardener who has deal with a sudden heatwave knows about the havoc they can wreak. Animals (and humans) can keel over from heat exhaustion, crops can fail, and ...
How to Forage and Use Nightshade
If you’re anything like me, the word “nightshade” conjures images of witches’ sabbats, bottled poisons, and intrigues. It’s hard to see "nightshade" on the page and not write "deadly" in front of ...
7 Brilliant Uses for Tree Resin Around Your Home
If you're trying to be as self-sufficient as possible, you're probably familiarizing yourself with materials available to use around your home and property. For example, you might be interested in ...