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DIY Solar Panels with Pop-Cans
DIY Solar Panels with Pop-Cans I would have thought that building a solar heater would have been a huge undertaking. But as it turns out, it’s not as hard as you might think! The featured article below shows the step-by-step instructions using recycled soda, pop or even beer cans! Who would have thought that pop-cans could …
Eating & Cooking Daylilies
Eating & Cooking Daylilies We are all learning a lot about eating what nature provides and things that we wouldn’t usually consider food items, like dandelions and now daylilies! This is a little more complicated plant than is a dandelion. It has several medicinal purposes and can work like a laxative and a diuretic. Daylilies are also known …
1,000 Year Old Remedy Fights Antibiotic Resistant Bugs
1,000 Year Old Remedy Fights Antibiotic Resistant Bugs The featured article speaks to an old eye salve that is said to actually work wonders on infections like MRSA which are usually antibiotic resistant. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK found the remedy in a 9th century they were translating in hopes of …
MIY Cream of Chicken Soup Mix
MIY Cream of Chicken Soup Mix An awesome recipe for those who are busy parents or professionals. Cream of “something” soup is used in so many quick and easy meals. The baby is crying, your teen is in angst, or after a long day at work nothing is better than comfort food or easy nutrition in …
Avoid 6 Common Prepping Mistakes
Avoid 6 Common Prepping Mistakes Like with most things in life prepping can be a live and learn proposition. However, unlike many other life lessons, you may not get the chance to change the plan or get a re-do as the only mistake could be the only one that mattered. So, in this instance we …
Budget Home-Defense Techniques from a Green Beret
Budget Home-Defense Techniques from a Green Beret I recently read a post online from a woman who was hopping mad. Someone had put a rock threw her window in order to gain access to her home unaware that she was at home. She announced that she intended to sit and wait for this person to …
Food Preservation And Sustainability
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Food Preservation And Sustainability One of the most important parts of prepping or homesteading is sustainability. You can save and store a huge number of supplies only to have them wiped out in a disaster, taken from you by marauders or confiscated and eventually no matter how much you …
10 Basics For Your Armorer’s Kit
10 Basics For Your Armorer’s Kit Almost every prepper site talks about having a personal armory for the day when you must hunt for food and or protect yourself and your family from those who would take what you have or simply want to do harm. But they don’t talk about the fact that just …
2 Dozen Uses for Your Crockpot
2 Dozen Uses for Your Crockpot Here, I thought I was the sultan of the crockpot or slow cooker! I use mine more than any other appliance in my kitchen. I even make cakes (which are wonderful BTW) in a slow cooker. But the featured article has put me to shame by coming up with …
Some States Require a Permit to Trade Seeds
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Some States Require a Permit to Trade Seeds It appears another simple homesteading, prepping, and gardening common practice has found its way into the law maker’s crosshairs. Seed libraries, friends, neighbors and even relatives may soon and are already in some states required to have a permit to gift …
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