Category: Homesteading

DIY Soup Can Forge

DIY Soup Can Forge The featured video shows you how to make a simple inexpensive DIY forge from a soap can lined with plaster! Operated by a torch the is fueled by a common fuel such as propane or if you make your own bio-gas, this could also be a fuel source for your torch. …

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The Basic Principles of Biogas

The Basic Principles of Biogas

The Basic Principles of Biogas Biogas is an old method of off grid power that is once again being used by many to replace the expensive mainstream alternatives. It recycles waste to make power and you can do it yourself! A small bit of set up can save you a ton of money over the …

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MIY Aspirin from Willow Bark

MIY Aspirin from Willow Bark

MIY Aspirin from Willow Bark Long before we began getting our medications out of a bottle, people learned which plants and trees provided relief or assistance in over coming human ailments. In a SHTF situation this would be useful information to have and share. The pharmacies and the pharmaceutical companies may not be open or producing …

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Top 5 Reasons People Don’t Catch Fish

Top 5 Reasons People Don't Catch Fish

Top 5 Reasons People Don’t Catch Fish If every time one of your buddies tell his latest fish tale you’re jealous and don’t have one to match or better his (even if you know his is exaggerated!) Then the featured article is for you. There is more to fishing than most people ever realize outside …

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Fire That Lasts All Night

Fire That Lasts All Night

Fire That Lasts All Night No matter why you have built the fire, if its to keep you warm during the night whether, camping, backpacking, bugging out or even bugging in your fireplace or wood stove the last thing you want is to be getting up every couple of hours to tend the it. Or worse …

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Reducing Your Need to Store Power

Reducing Your Need to Store Power Storing the energy you have created with alternative methods is not an easy task and is fraught with waste losing power both when converting it to be stored and then again when converting it  back for use. The featured article gives some tips on making some simple changes to your …

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10 Tips on How to Have a Successful Desert Vegetable Garden

10 Tips on How to Have a Successful Desert Vegetable Garden

10 Tips on How to Have a Successful Desert Vegetable Garden Growing any garden in a desert climate is quite different than in other climates and in my opinion much harder! That your garden is a food source only makes it more important and more difficult to get through to harvest. Especially when the heat …

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Reconditioning & Re-Seasoning Cast Iron Cookware

Reconditioning & Re-Seasoning Cast Iron Cookware Cast iron has been a favorite of cooks all over the world for years. Long before things such as Teflon coatings were ever even thought of. They are a particular favorite of preppers and homesteaders because they can be used in the oven, on the stove top, and over …

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6 Important Things to Know How to Improvise

6 Important Things to Know How to Improvise

6 Important Things to Know How to Improvise We live in a modern world and many of the items we use day to day are based upon that world. But tomorrow we know the comforts of that world could disappear before our very eyes. In order to comfortably survive the loss of those items and …

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Prepping is Only a Band-Aid

Prepping is Only a Band-Aid

Prepping is Only a Band-Aid If you injure yourself a Band-Aid is an important part of your first aid kit. In a minor injury it may be all you require to stop the bleeding and begin the healing process. In a few days you rip it off and go on with your life no worse …

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