Animal Track Identification The featured article today is a helpful animal tracking guide from the Farmer’s Almanac. It, fortunately for me, it includes pictures! Even though I am not an active hunter I find the information useful in just knowing which animal is wandering about on my property. It helps me protect my garden and my pets from …
Grow Rice at Home I have always envisioned rice paddies within the marshes of the Asian landscape. It never occurred to me that I could grow it at home! Rice is one of the best survival foods you can store, so growing it yourself is just an awesome project. It’s nutritious, healthy, versatile, and almost as important …
6 Ways To Boost Winter Egg Production Chickens, very much like humans, have an internal clock per say that tells them its this time of day or night or this or that season. During the winter months they too like to hunker down and just keep warm! So part of convincing the hens to lay …
Multi-Purpose All-Terrain Electric Locomotive Wow! This vehicle/sled could make heavy chores on the homestead, farm, or at bug out location a breeze. Even in the winter! It is a combo of a snow mobile and dog sled with tank tracks. I am guessing they call it a locomotive because it pulls like one over any terrain. …
Start a Self-Sufficient Homestead on 1 Acre! Visualizing a homestead usually means imagining vast acres of land. Not a single plot or an acre. Surrounded by wilderness for hunting and ranges for animals to roam. Barns, milking parlors, chicken coops, and greenhouses. Add gardens and a fishing hole and you have quite the set up going. …
Svalbard Global Seed Vault The world’s first two major seed banks The Nordic Gene Bank in Norway and Southern African Development Community combined their seed collections in the Svalbard Global seed vault . This organization preserves the earth’s seeds to be distributed across the world should there be a global disaster. Free of charge …
15 Preparations for the Wave of Collapse The featured article today deals with the domino effect of the world’s economy. Our economies are all global now and intertwined so when one thread is pulled and begins to unravel everything else also begins to unwind. Leading to eventual collapse. I can attest that one disaster can indeed …
DIY Cold Spring House – Off Grid Refrigeration With this off grid project the key is as they say in real estate, location, location, location! If you live near naturally moving water like a creek or even a small river where controlling a water diversion is possible then a cold spring house is the obvious answer …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. PVC Framed Garden Box Enclosures Garden season is just winding up in my area. So for us, it is time for reflection on what we need to try or do differently next season. One issue that the majority of us in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. DIY Converting a Pressure Cooker to a Still Whether you enjoy a cocktail once and again or not, being able to make a still is good in times of crisis. A still can make unsafe water drinkable and make alcohol for medical use or barter. Your pressure cooker is a …
