DIY Self Watering Rain Gutter Garden Our lifestyles today are not real contusive to always providing our gardens with the love and care they need to thrive. We take business trips, vacations, and simply don’t always have the time to water and weed as we would like. I admit that after a long day at …
Urban Food Forests: Demonstrating City Permaculture World hunger has become a phrase heard so often it has lost its impact. We hear it, we know it, we even see the results of it on TV along side extremely sad pictures of hungry children. However too often we expect someone else some place else to take care of it. …
Build Your Own Raised Garden Beds For space saving and high yields, it’s hard to beat a vegetable garden grown in raised beds. Raised beds can improve production as well as save space, time, and money. They also are the perfect solution for… dealing with difficult soils such as heavy clay and can improve your …
Growing Your Vegetables Organically If you would like to grow your Vegetables Organically, this information will help you. One of the things you need to do is to select plants for your garden that will help control insect pests. Certain plants either invite beneficial insects or repel harmful insects. Beneficial insects’ prey on pests that cause …
DIY Root Cellar It wasn’t too long ago that every home had a root cellar. Before supermarkets and electronic cooling, a root cellar was how people stored their garden goods for the year to come. They had the dual purpose in some areas to serve as a storm shelter as well. Many of the self-sufficient …
Vitamin Deficiencies & the Foods that Prevent Them The featured article speaks specifically to vitamin D deficiency however, the author also talks about foods that prevent a wide variety of vitamin deficiencies. For preppers the natural method of staying healthy through what we eat is critical. We realize medical care, supplements, and many pharmaceuticals will not be …
What is Aquaponics? We keep hearing aquaponics is the garden of the future. But what exactly is it, how does it work and why should we care? Food is an essential to all of us It doesn’t matter what political affiliation you are, where you live, how much you earn or even how you choose to …
STARTING YOUR COMPOST PILE With all the rains we’ve had this Spring and early Summer, you should have quite a bit of “Greens” ( grass clippings and prunings from trees ) that you could add to some of the ” Browns ” listed below to ge…t your Compost Pile off to a early start. Anything …
DIY Beehive In A Jar With some research on types of bees and the right materials even if you live in an urban area you can have your own beehive and home canned honey! Nature’s own sweetness and one of the most common ingredients in home remedies, unlimited honey would be nice for now and …
MIY Powdered Eggs Eggs are literally the glue of baked goods and an excellent source of protein. Unless you have your own livestock and assuming your livestock survived whatever disaster scenario has befallen you, they will become more difficult to obtain. Choices may also have to be made egg vs chicken if things get difficult enough. The …
