Homesteading

You love to garden, but at the current stage of your life, you have the misfortune of living on the 24th floor of an apartment building in a noisy city. Grrr! Or maybe you’re limited with an extremely tiny backyard that’s keeping you from the garden of your dreams? Container gardens: everything you need to know! With all the emphasis on higher density living, I thought I’d better update this post so those needing to live in something other than a home on a reasonable-sized property can still learn to garden.

The practice of storing eggs in lime water goes back centuries, and it’s still one of the best ways to preserve eggs without refrigeration. Anyone whose kept chickens knows that egg production doesn’t always line up with demand. Historically, how did people preserve eggs to ensure a steady winter supply? The answer is, they had literally dozens of methods to preserve eggs. They stored them in wood ash, wheat bran, and straw, or coated them with butter or lard, or kneaded them into homemade pasta that was hung to dry.

Author Melissa K. Norris offers five excellent tips to save money and reinforce homesteading skills. Tip #1 Learn How to Barter and Share. I had a friend who cut hair professionally. I’ve got five kids and they need haircuts, but that’s not a skill I have at all.She needed goat milk. So we looked fabulous and she got goat milk. It was a great trade off.

Tourniquets are familiar to some and foreign to others. Some people wave off the tourniquet, thinking they can just use their belt. Others think you should only use a tourniquet for an amputation. What’s the truth? Are tourniquets helpful? And which types of tourniquets should you carry? This guide will cover three common tourniquets and list their pros and cons. Anyone carrying a firearm or spending time outdoors should understand how to use a tourniquet.

Oftentimes, the world’s best medications are not the ones developed in labs, but rather the ones made by Mother Nature. For thousands of years, mankind has relied on various herbs to treat a wide range of conditions. While the advent of antibiotics drastically reduced the popularity of these herbal alternatives, they still remain effective to this day and are starting to enjoy more popularity as many diseases have grown resistant to antibiotics.

Preserving eggs is an old fashioned skill and it’s making a comeback as more people take up raising chickens in their backyards. Believe it or not, there are literally dozens of ways to preserve eggs (both historical and modern).

Victory Gardens aren’t just an essential piece of American history. They’re still important to everyday life in the modern world. If you don’t have a garden, or even if you do, you should consider a victory garden to get you started! Here’s why you should plant a victory garden.

... With the price of groceries going up every single month, I encourage you to start a garden if you’ve never had one, and to expand your current garden, if possible. If you’re unable to garden the way you’d like because of space, I get it. Hopefully, you have some space on a deck, patio, or side yard to put plants in pots.

Baking powder is a type of leavening agent used in the cooking process to raise the dough in those baked goods. But, did you know that there are other reasons you should be stocking baking powder?

One of the Best Foods You Need In Your Pantry is baking soda. It is one of the most widely used baking ingredients in bread, cakes, and cookies. But, baking isn’t the only reason you should stock it in your pantry! You may stock baking soda for all your baking needs, but did you know that this common household ingredient has many other uses as well as health benefits? Here is everything you need to know about baking soda.

Even if you purchase the cheapest single ply toilet paper your local bargain big box store stocks, all the toilet paper you would need for a long-term SHTF even would cost thousands of dollars, and fill more than the standard size bedroom.To truly be prepared for bathroom needs, a prepper needs to go old school and grow their own. The best option for preppers is to go a far more natural and old-fashioned route when it comes to toilet paper preps – grow your own.

When you hear the word “salt” what comes to mind? At first, you may think how well it seasons your steak-cut french fries or adds flavor to your favorite cut of steak. But then you are reminded how your doctor may have told you to be careful with how much you consume. Your doctor is right. Too much salt in our diet can cause a number of different health issues. Keep reading to discover more about salt: everything you need to know.