Tag: do it yourself

Using Comfrey as a Healing Aid

Using Comfrey as a Healing Aid Comfrey has been used for centuries to assist in healing everything from wounds to broken bones. It is supposed to speed up that lengthy process. Although I personally have never tried it there are those that swear by its use particularly in broken bones. I would never advise you …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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DIY Cheese Waxing

DIY Cheese Waxing DIY cheese waxing sounds like a really bizarre process, doesn’t it?!? But once the cheese is incased in the wax it can store for years without getting moldy. Personally, a world without cheese to me is a personal SHTF scenario. I love cheese on or in just about everything. Not only does it …

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DIY Container Gardening Ideas and Tips

DIY Container Gardening Ideas and Tips There are a number of reasons why people who would like to have a full-size outdoor garden can’t or don’t. You may not have weather that is conducive to a full growing season, limited outdoor space, bad soil, time constraints or even a disability that makes it too difficult to garden. …

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Convert An Old Refrigerator To A Root Cellar

Convert An Old Refrigerator To A Root Cellar No appliance lasts forever. When the household refrigerator dies, most of us shake our heads and then open our pocketbooks and purchase a replacement making taking away the old one part of the deal or purchasing another and either haul the old one off to the dump …

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Using a Water Wheel to Actually Pump Water

Using a Water Wheel to Actually Pump Water The water wheel has been used for centuries to create power through the movement of water. But when it came to moving water, we needed power to move the water from one location to another. Now this particular water wheel design uses the energy of the moving …

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Bike Campers

Bike Campers Now this is a nifty idea combining both the most mobile of bug out locations–the camper, and the most versatile of the bug out vehicles –the bike. A bike can maneuver across debris covered roads carrying both you and supplies back to the camper. Once an area has become too populated, too picked …

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