Some posts may contain affiliate links. Why Your Healthy Garden Should Include Tomatoes I personally can’t imagine a garden that didn’t include tomatoes! I love the fresh picked tomato on a warm BLT or the cool crisp of the right off the vine tomato in a salad. Then there are the wonderful sauces that can …
DIY Milkcrate Composter Good soil is the corner stone to any successful garden. Compost is an essential part of creating good healthy soil for your plants and making it yourself the ultimate in recycling of kitchen waste. From kitchen waste comes new crops to reenter the kitchen as produce to feed your family. It sure …
DIY Raised Planter Stand A raised planter is a perfect solution for those avid gardeners who have developed a bad back or rusty knees and shouldn’t stoop as much as an ordinary ground-based garden requires. They can also solve a multitude of space issues, soil issues and provide a garden spot for renters who may not be …
14 Off Grid DIY Projects Everyone not just preppers and homesteaders want to lower or if you’re really determined eliminate your utility bills. Not everyone worries about the day when power and water may not be available at the turn of a nob or the flip of a switch. We all should be, but truth …
This is a great time to start working on your Spring gardening plans, even though Spring doesn’t officially start until much later in the month. Quite a bit of the country still has to contend with cold weather spells in March, but in some of the Southern areas, things are already starting to heat up. …
Principles of Self-Sufficiency Self-sufficiency actually means different things to different people depending on their individual situations. To one of my daughters, it means supporting herself and her child without assistance from anyone. To another child it means being able to live away from home on her own, and to yet another it means being able to …
When to Start Planting Deciding when to start planting vegetable Seeds depends on your climate and conditions — and the vegetable itself. Vegetables differ not only in size, color, shape, and taste, but also in their preferred growing conditions. There are two groups: cool season and warm season. PLANTING COOL SEASON VEGGIES… Cool-season vegetables grow …
Get Your HAM Radio License in a Week! Being a HAM operator is something the majority of us agree would be ideal during a time of crisis long or short term, local or global, any time communications are interrupted or down. Information is not only the key to surviving in some situations but needed for …
Heat Your Greenhouse Without Power This almost sounds like a no brainer. Greenhouses are intended to convert solar power to heat. But what if you want to grow during the winter months or if the weather is rainy and gloomy for a long period of time? Unconverted solar just isn’t enough at that time. Unless …
Unavoidable Homesteading Challenges All homesteaders have their own unique challenges in their location and individual lives. They all have their own skill sets, weaknesses, varying financial abilities and personal physical abilities. But there are also common issues that apply to just about everyone who chooses the homestead lifestyle. The featured article talks about these shared …
