Composting doesn’t have to be difficult and although it may seem like a daunting task to get started, this helpful guide should help walk you through any rough patches.
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Sustainable Lifestyle
5 Fertilizers You Can Grow
There are many options for feeding your plants in a crash… start with these 5 fertilizers you can grow yourself and you’ll be on the path to grid-down survival gardening.
5 Must-Have Garden Tools For the Lazy Gardener
Let’s just be honest for a minute. As much as we enjoy gardening and the fruits of our labor, learning some shortcuts along the way to cut down on time and sweat equity is always a plus. These are some of our personal favorite garden tools for the lazy gardener.
5 New Year’s Resolutions To Get a Jump-Start on the Garden
Before you put in your next garden, it’s important to think about the goals you have for the coming growing season. And, now with the new year, comes new garden resolutions!
5 Reasons Why There is Security in Seeds
Seeds are an invaluable commodity and hold the key to long term sustainability, and survival in some cases. Here are 5 reasons why investing in these meager seeds can hold the power to sustained health.
5 Ways Coconut Oil Can Bring Out Your Natural Beauty
Most expensive luxury products can be completely replaced with this miracle oil.
GARDENING
How To Prepare an Herb Garden in Winter
Spring will be here before you know it, so get those green thumbs moving! Here is some great information for starting your herb garden indoors to get a head start.
10 Expert Tips To Help You Create Your Dream Garden
To help you make your dream garden a reality, here 10 tips and tricks master gardeners have shared to help your garden grow.
10 Simple Hacks for a Successful Vegetable Garden
Recently, I wrote an article listing essential gardening laws to give your plants the best chance at providing you with a big harvest. Taking that advice and using these ten quick tips provided by experienced gardeners can help you save time, increase your growing space and reduce costs.
It’s All Flower Power: 10 Popular Plants That Repel Mosquitoes
Start repelling those pesky mosquitos by strategic flower placement! These 10 popular herbs and flowers will keep the mosquitos away and your yard looking beautiful!
HOMESTEADING
Homesteading Basics: How To Dehydrate Herbs for Long-Term Storage
We are all looking for frugal ways to bulk up our preparedness pantries. Using herbs is a great way to do that. Some of our favorite herbs we love to grow in our garden can be utilized to make long-term herbal seasonings to use year round.
Hedgerows: A Modern Take on an Ancient Homesteading Practice
This modern take on ancient homesteading practices uses hedgerows as a way to use natural resources to create borders, contain livestock and can provide habitat to wildlife and a screen from pesticide drift, and control soil erosion.
Seed to Plate: How To Grow Bread-Worthy Spring Wheat From Seed
Wheat is one of those staples that’s been getting a bad rap lately. With the current diet trends leaning toward eating carbohydrates, wheat and bread aren’t on the radar of many gardeners. But there are some benefits to growing it, especially if you select the “hard red spring wheat.”
10 Simple Hacks for a Successful Vegetable Garden
Recently, I wrote an article listing essential gardening laws to give your plants the best chance at providing you with a big harvest. Taking that advice and using these ten quick tips provided by experienced gardeners can help you save time, increase your growing space and reduce costs.
DO IT YOURSELF (DIY)
DIY: Recipes For Everyday Products
In order to save a few dimes in my pocket, I’m starting to use my emergency pantry items in other ways ranging from deodorant to furniture polish.
50 Things You Should Stop Buying & Start Making
Making things yourself not only saves you money and helps the environment, but it lets you know where your products are coming from and exactly what’s in it.
Cleaning Your House May Be As Bad For You As Smoking 20 Cigarettes A Day
A recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine claims that regularly using house cleaning products could be as bad for your health as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Although it’s difficult to imagine cleaning could be just as detrimental to one’s health as smoking, the research suggests that the chemicals in cleaning products that get inhaled are actually just as bad.
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.
REPURPOSE, RECYCLE, REUSE
Peg Looms: A Simple Way to Create Home Furnishings
All the rugs at Knowle were made on a peg loom, as were cushion covers and the thick toppers that we used on the beds in cold weather.
No Cash Required
The supermarkets are VERY expensive compared with getting stuff for free.
Post-Collapse Bartering: This Overlooked Item Will Be a High Commodity
In a post-collapse scenario, everything will appreciate in value – even our trash. Having a stash of different forms of metal could be very valuable barter items. Read more here!
Survival Uses of Everyday Items
Our homes, cars, offices and even dustbins are full of stuff that we barely give a second glance to. Many of those items are multi-purpose and can be used for prepping and/or in situations where our survival is challenged.
SUSTAINABLE IN THE CITY
The Benefits of Hydroponic Gardening: An Infograph
In the aftermath of a event where going outdoors could be dangerous or life threatening, this gardening technique could be your lifeline for fresh vitamins and nutrients.
Buy Local and Help Your Community Survive
Here are just a few reasons why you should buy as many locally grown and produced products as possible.
Extending Your Growing Season in Winter: Can Your Garden Survive the Cold?
If you live in cold weather regions, extending your growing season with hoop houses and cold frames could save your crop and even your life, if it means the difference in whether or not your family has enough food to eat.
Foraging Edible Weeds in Urban Food Deserts
Looking back out at my backyard, I’m wondering how much more food is really out there that I have no idea about.
MICRO LIVESTOCK
How to Ferment Feed for Healthier Chickens
Fermenting chicken feed is an inexpensive and easy way to promoting good gut health. The process is so easy, you will wonder why you haven’t done this earlier!
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