Eating & Cooking Daylilies We are all learning a lot about eating what nature provides and things that we wouldn’t usually consider food items, like dandelions and now daylilies! This is a little more complicated plant than is a dandelion. It has several medicinal purposes and can work like a laxative and a diuretic. Daylilies are also known …
MIY Cream of Chicken Soup Mix An awesome recipe for those who are busy parents or professionals. Cream of “something” soup is used in so many quick and easy meals. The baby is crying, your teen is in angst, or after a long day at work nothing is better than comfort food or easy nutrition in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What Can’t Safely Be Canned? I know when I first began canning, I wanted to can EVERYTHING! I still re-can things I purchase in bulk down to meal size portions. But I have learned over the years and fortunately without any ill effects that not everything cans well. Not only do some things not can …
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. …
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 …
3 Wild Natural Medications Being lost in itself is a major issue when it’s you who is lost! But imagine being lost and sick, especially after a SHTF event. Even being sick in the wilderness when you know where you are and what you’re doing is a real hassle. If you have suddenly found yourself …
Soak Seeds for Speedy Germination If you soak your Seeds, water will fully penetrate the hull of the seed, nourishing the germ that will bloom into a plant. Seeds get food from the nutrients in the soil once they are planted, but for a good start they need plenty of water. It can be difficult …
