Wild Game Jerky Who doesn’t love jerky? We have a number of recipes for various sauces and flavorings on the site. But I don’t think that a whole lot of us have tried to many wild game jerkies. Here in my local area the common jerkies are made from beef, turkey and deer. But if …
Cooking With Mud Sounds horrible doesn’t it? Cooking with mud sounds really unsanitary. But if you do it right, it’s actually not. Cooking with mud was probably the advent of pottery to begin with (just my ponderings) It gets hard and then when done you break it away from the food. There is a bit …
Why Another Great Depression Will Be Very Different Many of my generation know the stories of our parents and grandparents who lived through the great depression in the USA. I am no different, but my parents and grandparents had very different stories I was raised prepping because of those stories and the scars they left …
Sow Bugs… Taste Like Shrimp? All survival and prepping sites at one time or another has talked about eating insects. I know they are considered almost a delicacy in some places. But for me they are desperation only food! Cheryl over at Homestead Off Grid Prepper decided since sow bugs are edible and she had …
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Gardening Hacks Will Change the Way You Garden! We want to be as self sufficient as possible, many of us also would like to go as natural as possible as well. Gardening is a big part of doing that. But gardening is time consuming and takes more energy and knowledge than one might first assume. …
Hiding Food While Bugged Out Everyone talks about a bugout bag. It’s what we are able to take with us if we are forced to flee our current location. Many have and many are searching for a bugout location. A safe place to land and begin again. But what if that safe place isn’t truly …
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Benefits of Duck Eggs I was surprised to learn the benefits of duck eggs outside of the fact that they are larger. Chicken eggs are pretty much the standard for the majority of us all around the world. But then they are a bit harder to market because they do take a little more work …
Grow, Cure And Store Garlic Garlic is one of the most popular vegetables out there. Especially to preppers, homesteaders, chefs, and herbalists. It has so many popular qualities from flavor to tincture production. You will find garlic as a topic on just about every site for all of the above uses! It’s versatile, easy to …
