Most people don’t realize that fruit peels often contain a higher concentration of nutrients than the fruit itself.
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Sustainable Lifestyle
10 Household Products You Never Have To Buy Again {With Shopping List}
Natural household cleaners are easier to make than one would think and typically use similar ingredients. Click here for recipes and a shopping list.
Sustainable Gardening: Reduce Watering by 50-75%
Our current landscaping is excessive and needs to change. Simply by changing the way you look at your lawn, you can create a low-water landscape that is both practical and beautiful.
How To Score Free Groceries (Seriously)
Here’s some excellent advice that can help you trim down your grocery bill and provide some extra cash for survival gear or preps you will make in your home.
5 Simple Solutions For Composting
Utilize these five easy ways to collect compostable materials to add to the garden. The end result is a full spectrum soil conditioner that will keep your garden thriving.
5 Ways to Re-Purpose Your Produce Bags
Next time you have extra mesh produce bags, save them up for future uses. They definitely have more than just one use.
GARDENING
3 Ways to Utilize Fallen Leaves
Utilizing natrual materials, such as leaves to use in the garden can improve your soil, naturally fertilize, create a nutrient rich mulch, as well as keep your soil moist. Leaves are a gift back from nature and utilizing them in the garden will reward you three fold. Here are three ways to make leaves work for you.
6 Fall Plants to Get Planted Now
Even though it is Fall, it does not mean you should neglect your garden. Here are six Fall plants to get in the ground now.
Improve Your Soil Naturally
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.
Trees: Natural Frost Protection
Part of the way trees protect your plants from freezing is through capturing still, warm air on a cold night.
HOMESTEADING
10 Awesome Tips You Never Knew About Using Wood Stoves That May Change Your Life
Aside from using wood stoves to stay warm and cook food on, here are 10 tips you never knew on how to get the most out of your wood stove.
3 Different Ways To Use a Whirley Pop – Prepper Style!
Did you know they whirley pop device has more than one use? Give this old fashioned device and second look and see how many other ways you can use it.
6 Ways to Get Your Chicken Coop Ready For Winter
Chicken coops need a little T.L.C. during the winter months. Here are 6 ways to winterize your coop and keep your chickens warm and cozy.
Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves
The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me. I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at. In this helpful guide, we’ll walk you through a few easy ways to use your fallen autumn leaves as a zero waste and cheaper options around your place.
DO IT YOURSELF (DIY)
DIY: Whipped Eczema Cream With Soothing Aloe
Eczema is considered an immune deficiency and requires a cure to work both inside and out. Aloe Vera is one of the few natural wonders that has been shown to reduce eczema symptoms both on the skin and in the immune system. This whipped lotion recipe uses soothing aloe vera, jojoba, as well as many other skin healing agents to create a rich cream that will help soothe eczema flare-ups and help the skin regenerate.
Five Awesome Alternatives to Duct Tape
Sometimes we’re faced with certain challenges that demand a specific tool perfectly suited for the task. If that’s ever the case, you’ll be glad you had one of these superior alternatives to duct tape.
Get Fizzy With It! Make Your Own Homemade Soda
Home brewing your own sodas are cheaper, more nutritious and a great project to do with the family. Learn how easy this skill is and use the recipes provided to make your own homemade soda.
How to Build an Awesome Mousetrap With a 5 Gallon Bucket
There’s a reason why humanity has struggled to eradicate these creatures for centuries, while never achieving any long term success. If they weren’t so resilient and smart, they would never be a problem.
REPURPOSE, RECYCLE, REUSE
9 Preparedness Uses for Rubber Bands You May Not Have Thought Of
Rubber bands are useful for many things. Here are some of the ones you may not have thought of.
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.
Homemade Paper Pots
Newspapers are typically used to add carbon rich materials to the compost pile, but they can also be used to plant seeds in. Newspaper pots are a cost effective and natural way to add nutrients to the garden and plant your garden at the same time.
How to Make Homemade Fire Starters
Carrying firestarters with you while you are away from home can be a great way to add a little survival insurance to whatever situation you happen to find yourself in. All you need are 4 household items that you would typically throw away.
SUSTAINABLE IN THE CITY
Food Freedom: Backyard Strategies You Can Try Today
If you have a yard, then you can use these steps to achieve food freedom.
You’re Wasting Millions of Gallons of Water Each Year and This is How You Can Change It
The conservation is not a mere “greening” but an exercise in supply and logistics…stretching your resources to the maximum of their conservation and employment.
20 Practical Ways to Use Bacon Grease
Do you know these twenty ingenious ways of using bacon grease? You may be surprised.
Grow Your Own Lemon Tree
With a little bit of effort, you could be using homegrown lemons in your drinks and recipes in just a few months.
MICRO LIVESTOCK
Homesteading: Ducks vs. Chickens & How We Chose
Some people will be able to have both ducks and chickens on their homestead with no trouble whatsoever. We really wanted to raise a flock of something though for the eggs, and eventually made the decision to raise ducks. This is our story of how and why we ended up with 6 ducks and zero chickens.
Homemade Chicken Suet Treats
Keeping chickens is one of the best decisions I have ever made. My chickens get to free range and I get eggs in return. To thank them for keeping my family fed, I like to make them these tasty suet treats made of their favorite snacks.
Sustainable Farming: Starting a Quail Flock
Whether you choose to get started with chicks or eggs, quail are an easy way to provide sustainable meat even in small spaces. They’re prolific layers, can be eaten without the meat becoming tough at any time during their lives, and are a great way to get into poultry for the small scale homesteader.
How To Get More Eggs From Chickens Over Winter
During winter, it is entirely possible to see your hen’s egg production slow down, but there are things you can do to ensure a steady supply of eggs.
