Look at any package of store-bought bread and you’re likely to turn up your nose in disgust after reading the ingredients. From artificial flavors to preservatives you can’t pronounce, there are a lot ...
Seed Stratification: A Comprehensive Guide to This Seed Germination Trick
For many years I stuck to growing plants from seed that were easy to germinate. But, as I started getting into more exotic perennials, I kept coming across instructions to stratify seeds. ...
The Secret to Improving Clay Soil, It’s Easier Than You Think
Clay soil can be frustrating. It doesn’t drain in the spring and cracks like the Grand Canyon in the summer. Red clay soil makes it difficult for many southern and northwest coast farmers to produce a ...
13 Survival Food Perfect for Your Bug Out Bag and Emergencies
To quote Ahmed Mostafa (with a slight modification): "It's not the stuff we face that defines us, it's how we deal with it." And with that in mind, how well prepared are you if some disaster were ...
18 Winter Vegetables and the Best Varieties for Cold Climates
Where I live, the winters leave us in a deep freeze, rendering the growing season shorter than I'd like. I also have to deal with a lot of unpredictability in terms of weather. A snowstorm can crop up ...
Winter Homesteading Activities To Fill Your Freezing Cold Days
I love to work outside even on freezing cold days…unless it’s windy. There is something about the cold wind that cuts to your core and chills you to the bone. In truth, those bone-chilling ...
Survival Garden: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
Everybody has a theory on what to do to prepare for survival should something tragic happen. People wisely prepare for natural disasters, war, economic collapse, or smaller events like power outages ...
Burying Food for Preservation – Is It Still a Good Idea?
Would you ever consider burying your food out in your yard like a squirrel does his beloved nut? We might find this a little odd now, but our ancestors did this to preserve their food over the ...
13 Smart Ways to Make Money at the Farmer’s Market
Farmer's markets are a way for homesteaders and gardeners to make money from all of their hard work. The problem is that all of the local farmers in your area will be at these farmer's market, and ...