No matter what stage of life you’re in, it’s always a good time to become more self-sufficient. Here’s how to get started homesteading.
Food Storage
Food Poverty: Malnutrition Diseases on the Increase
Storing food at todays prices to use tomorrow is a way of protecting yourself and your family from price hike shocks. Starting a vegetable garden as well as storing food is better still. If you have no experience now is the time to get it, before you actually need it.
Food Preservation at Knowle Cottage
Not having electric power the job of preserving a portion of the harvest to help us out in the winter was a long one.
Food Storage Demystified
Storing food for long-term emergencies is not without it’s challenges. Many preppers who are beginning this task want to ensure they are packaging foods correctly. Listed, are 8 common food storage questions asked by beginning preppers. Perhaps these questions can help you.
Frugal Living: Using Up Fish Scraps for Broth and Other Recipes
Finding ways to find natural food sources and using up every bit will not only enhance our preparedness skills, but also help us create a more frugal lifestyle in the process. Fish is one of the most readily available wild protein sources and homesteader, Ruby Burks provides some very sound advice on how to add these last food bits to make delicious meals.]
Getting The Most From The Cottage Garden
As I’ve said before the garden at Knowle cottage was big, but not huge. It took some creative planting to make sure we produced enough to feed the family.
How can I preserve my oxygen absorbers?
A reader asks if there a secret to keeping oxygen absorbers active.
How to Make Hard Tack Biscuits With a 50 Year Shelf Life
Even if you prefer canned or freeze dried food for your prepping supplies, you should still try making hard tack sometime. It’s a simple but useful skill that can use to make your flour supplies last forever.
How To Save Perishable Food In An Off-Grid Emergency
When the grid goes down, it’s a race against time to save your perishable food. Writer, Jeremiah Johnson shares his advice on how to save it all and get it shelf stable when the you-know-what has hit the fan.
Food Waste: A Way of Life That Needs to Change
I hate food waste. I loathe spending good money on decent food and then seeing it go into the garbage. For that reason food waste has been banned from my home.