Stockpiling vs. Hoarder. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Matter
No one knows what will happen in the future, but based on some of the things that went missing quickly off shelves last year after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, we have some idea of what we should be hoarding and stockpiling. Make sure what you store for the long term is going to not decay and go bad.
Off-Grid Homesteading: How To Create Free Heating and Air Conditioning
Having a constant flow of cool air in the summer is the best way to beat the heat, but with the ever-increasing energy prices, and in some states, rolling blackouts, it is becoming all too clear that our power grid is not something any of us should fully rely upon. A natural option is utilizing thermal energy to heat and cool the homestead.
If The Grocery Stores Are Stockpiling Food, Shouldn’t You?
In an attempt to circumvent rising food costs and the possibility of cracks in the food supply chain, grocery stores are beginning to stockpile certain foods. If grocery stores are stockpiling food, shouldn’t we also?
How To Make the Most of Your Tomato Harvest
Tomatoes are a summer garden favorite and extremely versatile. If you find yourself stuck on what you should do with your tomato harvest, check out some of these yummy recipes and tips on how to make the most of your tomato bounty.
Prepping for the Storm: 12 Tips To Prepare Your Property for Hurricane Season
Proper storm preparation can save your household thousands of dollars in landscaping and structural damage. These 12 steps are recommended to save your trees, grass, flower and vegetable beds, shrubs, and ornaments.
Cooking with Nasturtiums: 3 Tasty Recipes For the Summer
Nasturtiums aren’t just for protecting your garden, did you know that they are edible? Nasturtium leaves, stems, and flowers have a peppery taste, which makes them a great addition to summer dishes and salads.
How To Cook With Lavender
Lavender is easy to grow in your garden, and it can be a pantry staple. Once you start cooking with it, I can tell you that you will never stop.
5 Delicious Ways to Use Flour Tortillas (Plus Recipes)
Tortillas are a must-have for most pantries, and it is one of the most resourceful staples to have on hand when you are in a cooking bind. Whether you need to grab a meal on the go, prep for school lunches, plan a festive taco night, throw together a dinner casserole, or fix a desert, tortillas are there for the baking save.
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Tackle Inflammation Naturally With Blackcurrant Herbal Tinctures
Inflammation is becoming increasingly common among Americans. But there is a natural and herbal way to help relieve the pain and swelling often associated with inflammation, and that is with blackcurrant.
St. John’s Wort Herbal Tincture: For Mood Balance and a More Positive Outlook
Known for its exhaustive medicinal value, St. John’s Wort is one of the best herbs to add to your herbal medicine cabinet. In addition to its medicinal properties, an herbal tincture can have the powerful effect of balancing your mood and helping you achieve a more positive outlook naturally.
Passion Flower Herbal Tincture: Relieve Nervousness And Tension Naturally!
The passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) herb is incredibly beautiful and has been used to naturally treat ailments from gastrointestinal problem to cuts and bruises. But herbal tinctures made from the gorgeous flower are highly useful for those who often carry a little extra stress and anxiety.
Relieve Pain Gently And Naturally with Corydalis Root Herbal Tincture
Ready Nutrition herbal tinctures help those who are turning back to nature to aid their body and mood. Corydalis root is one of those herbal remedies and has been shown to be useful in the gentle relief of pain.
NATURAL LIVING
Technology Detox: The Health Benefits of Unplugging & Unwinding
If you’ve ever considered attempting a “digital detox”, there are some health benefits to making that change and a few tips to make things a little easier on yourself.
The Surprising Health Benefits Of Camu Camu Berries
Camu Camu berries aren’t widely known, but perhaps they should be! This small berry has got many purported health benefits and comes in a variety of different forms.
5 Natural Remedies to Soothe Poison Ivy Rashes
If you spend any time outdoors, you know that poison ivy can grow just about anywhere and is the bane of all outdoor enthusiasts. Here are 5 natural remedies you can use to soothe and relieve the most irritated of rashes.
5 Tips For Naturally Healthy Skin All Summer Long
The warmer, more humid weather in the summer means our skin isn’t as dry and itchy as it was in the winter; but that’s no excuse to neglect your skin. As the largest organ of the integumentary system, it’s important to protect your skin, but doing so in a natural and earth-friendly way is often difficult. So we’ve come up with five tips and tricks designed to help you get the most out of nature’s bounty while caring for skin this summer.
Your Environment is Key To Your Happiness: Finding the Balance You Need to Simplify Your Home
Environmental wellness has become increasingly important at this stage of humanity as clutter and consumerism increasingly permeates our culture. It’s important to live a life that’s sustainable both for ourselves and our Earth, so we can pass along a less stressful, wasteful, and polluted world to our children.
Use This Trick to Keep Mice and Spiders Out of the House for Good!
One thing that we can all agree on is spiders and rodents are unwelcome visitors who do not belong in our homes! Winter is the time when these icky critters seek warm spots to hibernate in.
SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE
How To Have Zero Waste in Your Kitchen
How would you like to save a LOT of money, and benefit the environment while you are at it? There are many tricks and tips you can use to do both.
Survival Food Series: 25 Survival Seeds You Need For Your Garden
Living off the land sounds as inviting as Christmas dinner. But many have hardly had adequate experience being “farmers.” In fact, many have had no experience at all when it comes to planting anything. That being said, the day is slowly approaching where each of us may have to trade in our company identification badges for a shovel and a pair of overalls.
9 Mindful Ways to Start Breaking Up With Plastic – For Good!
Each generation faces new challenges from a system designed to follow profit-potential rather than the welfare of the people confined within it. Plastics are slowly killing us. Here are 9 mindful ways to start phasing it out of your life.
Hydroponics: The Good, The Bad, & The Necessary Equipment
You could realistically grow an entire garden hydroponically in your own home, and with a large enough financial investment, have fresh produce year-round even in cooler climates!
Sustainable Prepping: 5 Alternative Energy Types for When the SHTF
Let’s cover some methods to generate energy and provide power, and discuss the positive and negative aspects of each one.
8 Delightful Ways a Fire Pit Adds Joy to Family Night
There are so many activities that can be done around a fire pit that you and your family will never get bored.
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Off-Grid Homesteading: How To Create Free Heating and Air Conditioning
Having a constant flow of cool air in the summer is the best way to beat the heat, but with the ever-increasing energy prices, and in some states, rolling blackouts, it is becoming all too clear that our power grid is not something any of us should fully rely upon. A natural option is utilizing thermal energy to heat and cool the homestead.
If The Grocery Stores Are Stockpiling Food, Shouldn’t You?
In an attempt to circumvent rising food costs and the possibility of cracks in the food supply chain, grocery stores are beginning to stockpile certain foods. If grocery stores are stockpiling food, shouldn’t we also?
How To Make the Most of Your Tomato Harvest
Tomatoes are a summer garden favorite and extremely versatile. If you find yourself stuck on what you should do with your tomato harvest, check out some of these yummy recipes and tips on how to make the most of your tomato bounty.
Prepping for the Storm: 12 Tips To Prepare Your Property for Hurricane Season
Proper storm preparation can save your household thousands of dollars in landscaping and structural damage. These 12 steps are recommended to save your trees, grass, flower and vegetable beds, shrubs, and ornaments.
How To Cook With Lavender
Lavender is easy to grow in your garden, and it can be a pantry staple. Once you start cooking with it, I can tell you that you will never stop.
5 Delicious Ways to Use Flour Tortillas (Plus Recipes)
Tortillas are a must-have for most pantries, and it is one of the most resourceful staples to have on hand when you are in a cooking bind. Whether you need to grab a meal on the go, prep for school lunches, plan a festive taco night, throw together a dinner casserole, or fix a desert, tortillas are there for the baking save.
Four Reasons Why You Should Stash the Cash!
With inflation and gas and food shortages on the rise, it is an excellent idea to have some cash stashed for emergencies. I know we live in a world that believes that there is an ATM around the corner and keeping cash in your wallet or in your home is obsolete, but there are some events that will prove it is good to have some loose cash around.
Eight Pre-Hurricane Season Preparations You Need To Make
This past weekend Texas experienced its first tropical weather event for the 2021 season, and the season doesn’t officially begin until June 1st. These 8 items are what I personally recommend completing before the start of hurricane season.
Don’t Lose What You Store: 6 Tips To Protect Your Prepper Pantry
I don’t know about you, but sometimes it is difficult to use all the food I have stored. This year I have been placing a lot of emphasis on organizing my food storage and acquiring more food because I am concerned with the economy.
How I Disinfected My Home After Having Covid-19
Covid-19 viscously descended upon my home in March, and all seven members of my household contracted it. It was an unseen enemy that kept spreading, and I felt defenseless at protecting my family from it. I was determined to eradicate that germ from my home so no one else would contract it. I armed myself and attacked with the following products and technologies.
How To Start a Pallet Garden and What Vegetables Grow Best With It?
A pallet garden is an easy and frugal way to grow compact vegetables and herbs. But before you get your pallet garden started, here are a few important facts I discovered.
YUMMY RECIPES FOR ANY OCCASION
Yogurt Berry Popsicles
These treats are sure to please kids of all ages. Best of all, you can feel confident knowing that you are giving your kids treats that are absent of dyes and corn syrup. It’s just pure, tasty goodness.
Cook Like Grandma: Nothing Goes to Waste
Vintage cookbooks and recipes from around the world can open up possibilities for delicious recipes that allow one to use every part of the animal for human consumption and to reduce waste. So, before tossing these bits to the dogs, spend some time exploring these lesser-known or forgotten recipes.
10 Delicious Zoodle Recipes You Can Make From Your Summer Harvest!
Here’s a new way to make fresh garden salads and an easy way to take your healthy meals to the next level!
11 Healthy Fire Pit Meals You Can Make This Summer
While sitting around an outside fire over conjures up images of roasting marshmallows to make tasty treats, there are many other things you can cook over a fire with your family.
COOKING AND FOOD PREP IDEAS
The Fine (and Frugal) Art of Repurposing Leftovers
In these times of budget cuts, rising food costs, job losses and ever-increasing expenses, we can’t afford to let anything go to waste. Learn how to combine your leftovers to create delicious and frugal meals the entire family would approve of.
The Sweet Life: Sugar Alternatives for Your Homesteading Needs
Sugar is an essential food staple that should be in every emergency pantry. Learn about different sugar alternatives there are for your long-term needs.
Whey Has More Uses Than You Think
Whey is considered a “waste product” from cheese making, but it has more uses than you think; including dietary uses.
7 Delicious Ways To Use Your Summer Vegetable Harvest
We wanted to share some of our favorite ways to use up the bounties of our garden including our favorite salsa and bruschetta recipe for those warm night where you don’t really want to cook.
How To Make the Most of Your Tomato Harvest
Tomatoes are a summer garden favorite and extremely versatile. If you find yourself stuck on what you should do with your tomato harvest, check out some of these yummy recipes and tips on how to make the most of your tomato bounty.
A Beginner’s Guide to Sausage Making (Recipes Included)
Sausage making is a great way to use up an abundance of meats in the home and this basic tutorial will take you step by step.
FAMILY PREPAREDNESS
Supply Chain Collapse: 6 Ways To Secure Essential Resources In An Emergency
With so many disasters that threaten our supply chain, it’s time to take steps at creating your own. In an emergency, if you’ve already established local contacts, you can contact them immediately before they are overwhelmed with orders or shut their doors.
Is Your Car Bug-Out Ready for Summer Emergencies? These 8 Items are a Must!
The summer sun can also be a deadly furnace with deadly consequences. Get your vehicle ready for summer disasters with these preps.
A Personal Account of Surviving the New COVID B.1.1.7 (British Variant)
For a year, my family of seven was successful at keeping Covid-19 out of our home. We limited where we traveled and who we were exposed to; we washed our hands and always carried hand sanitizer on us; we wore our masks; we took our vitamins, elderberry syrup, and fire cider, and then in March everything changed.
Hurricane Preparedness for Tech Gear
These seven useful tips can help keep your data, electronics, and your sanity intact during a stressful situation.
Family Preparedness Essentials: Assessing Your Emergency Medicine Supply For the Home
Emergency medical supplies require planning and inventory of supplies to ensure there is enough during major medical emergencies.
Rip Currents: How To Survive This Hidden Danger At The Beach
These currents often cause drownings when they sweep unsuspecting swimmers away from the shore.
PREPAREDNESS CHECKLISTS
Don’t Fly Without These 20 TSA-Approved Items in Your Prepper’s Carry-on Bag
Here are 20 items you can bring onto a plane without getting tackled to the ground by 3 TSA goons while sirens blare ,lights flash, and the PA system announces that you are a terrorist who was planning to hijack the nearest 747.
11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last a Lifetime
Many see storing food as a necessary investment for themselves and their family. Knowing which foods to store and how long they will last are the key elements to making the most on a food investment. These 11 food items can last a lifetime if properly stored.
Road Side Medical Care Kit
Leaving home means venturing away from the safety of your home where necessary items are waiting to be used. If an emergency occurs while in the vehicle, having the necessary items in place can save essential time, money and provide relief.
Hurricane Preparedness for Tech Gear
These seven useful tips can help keep your data, electronics, and your sanity intact during a stressful situation.
Pet First Aid Kit
During times of disaster, our pets need a little extra TLC to help them cope with the stressful situation at hand. Having some first aid supplies set aside for your pets may help ensure they are as safe as the other members of the family.
Inferno: How To Get Ready for a Rapidly Spreading Wildfire
What if you are in one of the states that is experiencing wildfire activity, or if a fire should break out in your locale? Let’s go over a few things that you can do to give you and your family a better chance.
ARE YOU READY?
Every Prepper Should Have Multiple Bug-Out Bags. Here’s Why.
The you-know-what can hit the fan when you least expect it to and having multiples of your most essential items will ensure you have all you need no matter where you are.
These Off-Grid Summer Strategies Could Save Your Food Supply and Keep You Safe
In the coming months, the power grid will be pushed to extremes and can force homes off the grid if temperatures reach maximums. Keep these tips and considerations in mind to help you become more resilient to the lasting effects of power outages during extreme heat events.
Rally Point – Getting Your Family or Group Safely Together Again After a Crisis
Creating a rally point for a SHTF scenario can help loved ones reconnect sooner. Learn the ins and outs to create this crucial shtf plan.
Plan B: What To Do When Your Survival Shelter Has Been Compromised
No home is an impregnable fortress, but at the bare minimum your preparations can buy you some time. Get your home defense plan where it should be with these essential tips.
Are You Ready Series: Heat Safety
Heat related deaths are the number 1 weather related killer in the United States. Learn how to keep cool and safe during hot weather and summer power outages.
The Single Most Important Thing You Need To Know About Solar Storms
Solar storms are no joking matter; however, with the proper precautions you can protect against them as you protect your home, family, and supplies with any other disaster, be it natural or man-made.
Do It Yourself Tips (DIY)
DIY: Soy Citronella Candles
Citronella candles are a natural alternative to repelling those annoying insects and provide a pleasant scent at the same time. They also are very adaptable to what you have on hand.
Ollas: Ancient Low Tech and Low Cost Sub-Surface Irrigation System
Sometimes our ancestors really did know best. Learn about ollas, an ancient, but very effective irrigation system to add to your garden.
How to Make a Battery That Lasts (Practically) Forever
If only there was a cheap and simple way to supplement a solar panel array on those cloudy days.
How to Make Lucky Sherpa Plantain Salve
Harness the healing powers of plantain with this Lucky Sherpa Salve recipe.
10 Natural Uses For Liquid Castile Soap
Liquid castile soap is one of the most versatile products out there! Although there obviously, more uses for castile soap than those listed, however, these ten are reason enough to stock up!
Take the Frustration Out of Chopping Firewood With This Quick Tip
Both of these methods are pretty useful for making your firewood chopping session a little shorter, and a lot less tedious.
How to Make Gunpowder the Old Fashioned Way
Knowing how to make your own gunpowder means that you can keep on shooting no matter how long it takes for society to be rebuilt.
A Prepper’s DIY: Building Your Own Cleaning Kits for Firearms
Bottom line: your weapon can’t take care of you unless it is properly taken care of. You can be smart and use some of these tips to lessen the bite to your wallet.
DIY: Repel Bugs Naturally with this Homemade Bug Balm
Next time you are outdoors, give this natural balm a chance. The smell is much more pleasant compared to insecticides and it’s just as effective.