Things Not To Do In Your Garden Gardening isn’t as easy as sticking some seeds in the ground and dumping water on them now and again. Don’t I wish it was! I have made more gardening mistakes than I care to admit. I do learn from my mistakes and I try to learn from the mistakes of …
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160 Uses for Coconut Oil
160 Uses for Coconut Oil Offering a myriad of health benefits, coconut oil is affordable, readily available and completely natural. You can use it for EVERYTHING. I buy it in 5 gallon increments and keep it all over my house. It is one of my staple prepping items because of its incredible versatility. It doesn’t …
MIY Dutch Oven Bread
MIY Dutch Oven Bread Every preppers kitchen needs to be outfitted with some cast iron cookware, especially a Dutch oven. These dishes are true multi-taskers and are capable of cooking on a stovetop, in an oven, or over a fire, which obviously makes them extremely useful in case of a power outage or if shtf. …
DIY Portable Woodstove
DIY Portable Woodstove A woodstove can be a handy thing to have on a long camping trip or when ice fishing. Great for your backyard as a focal point for outdoor entertaining or for use in a SHTF scenario. It is very easy to make one on your own and out of easily found materials (often recycled) …
DIY Solar Panel Tracker That Follows The Sun
DIY Solar Panel Tracker That Follows The Sun This is a pretty neat tutorial. Make the most of a sunny day by making a DIY solar panel tracker. The project it’s self is pretty simple. You just need a basic idea of electronics. Trust me, I know nothing and I understood this tutorial… The LED sensor …
DIY EarthBag Roundhouse
DIY EarthBag Roundhouse Roundhouses are perhaps the simplest, fastest, easiest earth bag structure to build. The other key advantage of earth bag is cost. Owen Geiger has been designing and building these natural earthbag alternative homes for years. Low cost and economically easy to maintain they could be the ideal off grid and with some small …
DIY Light Bulb From Plastic Soda Bottle
DIY Light Bulb From Plastic Soda Bottle Now this is just pure genius… this alternative light bulb would work well in smaller rooms, sheds, cabins places like that. You can’t just fill a bottle with water and expect this to produce 55 watts equivalent of light. You have to mix a solution to put into …
12 Smart Uses for Bleach
12 Smart Uses for Bleach You know it’s a great cleaning product, but you’ll never guess what else bleach can do! Like most people including myself, you most likely have a jug sitting in your laundry room at home. If you don’t this article will show you why you may want to start buying it …
Anti Itch Spray For Humans or Pets!
Anti Itch Spray For Humans or Pets! Dogs itch for the same reason we do, did you know that dogs actually can have dry skin? Some dogs like my own have allergies that effect the skin. Or some dogs skin gets dry and itchy for the same reason humans do. Humans get bites and irritations just like …