Discussing Preparedness With Co-Workers as We Return to Work Especially now as many of us are returning to work after a pandemic shelter in place order, preparedness is on a lot of people’s minds. This could mean one of two things; your co-workers will be thinking about the topic and many wondering where to begin. …
Home Canning Meatballs (With Recipe) Canning meat can be an option to storing protein in ways other than jerking or salt curing. This meatball recipe also gives you the convivence of canned and the goodness of homemade. See the recipe and the canning instructions from The Iowa Housewife at the featured link below Home Canned …
Barter Better In a Crisis, In Intervals, With These Stockpile Items Bartering is a system that has always been used. We just made it easier when we as human’s began using precious metals, then coin, paper and electronic transfers backed by precious metals. That in it’s self is actually a form of barter but for …
DANDELION the “Medical Weed” Bothersome weeds, stir fry veggie, or wine base, the dandelion has been around and used and abused for ever. They are an evasive species so if you’re trying to create a pristine green lawn they can be your nightmare plant. However, if you are a frugal forager they are an easy …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Fruit Salad Trees: What They Are & How to Grow Them I have never had enough space to maintain both a garden and fruit trees. So when I first heard of a fruit salad trees I had no idea what they were but they certainly peeked my interest. One …
Asian Hornets AKA Murder Hornets found in US Wow these hornets are huge and honestly a bit scary. If like me you are allergic to bees I can only imagine the reaction I would experience if stung by just one of these monsters! Factually they are more dangerous to our bee population than to us. …
Coronavirus Parties-Immunity Building or Deadly? Years ago some parents had what was called pox parties. Thinking that because the chicken pox are more dangerous to adults than to children that they were immunizing their children from a more dangerous case of the illness. Back then there was not a vaccination for the chicken pox. I …
Quaranteaming to Beat Isolation Blues What is “quaranteaming”? It’s now the name for what folks are doing to prevent themselves and/or family and friends from having to hunker down alone. How it’s done and a bit about those that are doing it is discussed in our featured article linked below. Here on the Homefront we …
How (and When) to Prepare for Another Possible Lockdown This featured article is not about whether there will be nor whether there should be another pandemic lockdown. It’s not about the politics of any said lockdown nor your personal views on where the virus came from or even how well your government reacted. It’s about how …
Safely Doing Laundry During a Pandemic, Especially as we Begin to Re-Open Or During and After Any Airborne Crisis Recently our world was hit with a viral pandemic. Passed through the air and upon surfaces from one person to the next and in sadly too many cases particularly among our vulnerable population deadly. Most of …
