Utilizing the way the forest creates soil could be the secret to growing healthy plants. Re-creating the forest floor and it’s different types of layers allows for a complex mix of essential ingredients needed to create living soil. Knowing what nutrients are needed to create living, viable soil will not only enhance the performance of the plants, but create a living soil environment for beneficial insects to thrive.
Tess Pennington
Tess Pennington is the author of The Prepper's Blueprint, a comprehensive guide that uses real-life scenarios to help you prepare for any disaster. Because a crisis rarely stops with a triggering event the aftermath can spiral, having the capacity to cripple our normal ways of life. The well-rounded, multi-layered approach outlined in the Blueprint helps you make sense of a wide array of preparedness concepts through easily digestible action items and supply lists.
Tess is also the author of the highly rated Prepper's Cookbook, which helps you to create a plan for stocking, organizing and maintaining a proper emergency food supply and includes over 300 recipes for nutritious, delicious, life-saving meals.
Visit her web site at ReadyNutrition.com for an extensive compilation of free information on preparedness, homesteading, and healthy living.
To Your Health Series: Types of Medicinal Mushrooms
Eastern medicine values preventative medicine over reactive medicine. For centuries, cultures have long considered certain mushrooms to be responsibile for their prosperity and health. Their use of these mushrooms contributed to longer lifetimes, less health issues, more youthful appearances, and increased energy levels. Read more to understand the healing properties that mushrooms can provide, as well as learn some of the most popular medicinal mushrooms available.
To Your Health Series: How Medicinal Mushrooms Can Benefit Your Immune System
In traditional Eastern medicine, mushrooms are the drug of choice and hailed for their medicinal powers. Only recently have Westerners discovered the untapped medicinal source from mushrooms. More notably, certain mushrooms, such as shiitake and reishi mushrooms have antiviral and antibiotic properties that could come in handy during a long term emergency, especially if added to a survival medicinal garden. Thus providing a person with an immense amount of nutrition and medical uses.
5 Ways to Use a Pumpkin
There is more to the pumpkin than meets the eye. The nutrition value alone makes pumpkins a vitamin powerhouse. Here are five ways to use pumpkins other than for a jack-o-lantern.
Simply Simplifying
Have you ever wanted a do-over on your life? Do you feel that there is a vital component missing? Maybe it’s time to simplify things and get back to basics. Here are 6 proven ways to simplify your life to help you find what’s missing.
Grow Against the System
Many may not be aware of a food revolution slowly growing in popularity around the nation. There are some people who feel that our food is under attack by large agriculture corporations. This revolution is advocating people to take back control over their food sources and begin teaching the next generation more self reliant practices. Rather than thinking as a group, teach the next generation to think as an individual.
Characteristics of a Survival Homestead
What characteristics go into finding a survival retreat? Author, James Rawles’ provides key characteristics to look for when searching out the perfect acerage for a survival retreat.
Make Vinegar From Apples
In the children’s classics, Little House on the Prairie, readers fell in love with the Ingall’s family, and especially Ma’s cooking. Her recipes were frontier food, where everything was used, nothing wasted. Here is a classic recipe for apple core vinegar. A recipe, every family should have on hand to use for cooking, as well as medicinal uses.
6 Ways to Recycle Water
Water is an important part of our lives, and something we take for granted. Learnings ways to conserve water will help during droughts, economic hardships, keeping the utility bill down and conserving our vital natural resources. Here are 6 ways to conserve water from the home.
The Survival Mom Preps For the Seasons
Lisa Bedford, otherwise known as the Survival Mom gave a webinar last night to help preppers get ready for seasonal prepping. Her book suggestions and preparedness tips that were provided were insightful and original. Here are a few highlights of the webinar.
Family Emergency Plan Checklist
Create your family emergency plan with this free emergency family checklist.
Survival Food Series: Secret Survival Garden
Those who have thought of long term emergency situations and how to secure their land, food and possessions, have also thought of how to grow food, yet keep it hidden at the same time. Having your garden in an inconspicuous location will not only ensure OPSEC (operational security), but also to discourage others from seeing what you are growing. Here are some tips on how to achieve the impossible.