Don’t let anyone tell you that you must have acreage in the country to increase your personal sustainability. As long as you’re creative and refuse to be discouraged, you’ll be surprised to learn how much of your own food you can produce anywhere you happen to hang your hat.
Sustainable in the City
5 Ways Trash Helps Grow Your Garden
You don’t have to spend a fortune at the nursery or garden supply center to have a happy and healthy garden. There are a few things you probably have lying around the house that can put some extra green in your thumb—and many of them are items you might otherwise consider trash!
Self-Sufficiency Skill: Basic Vehicle Maintenance
Learning basic care car is a skill everyone should learn as part of being frugal and becoming more self-sufficient.
Simple Ways to Purify Drinking Water in Emergencies
Your water supply is a factor that must be accounted for at all times and knowing the simplest way of purifying water will save you time and money.
Straw Bale Gardening: Everything You Wanted to Know for the Best Bounty Ever
This new organic gardening method is a game changer. Here’s everything you needed to know about straw bale gardening to get the best bounty ever.
Sustainable Essentials: 8 Necessary Items for Raising Baby Chicks
It’s no wonder chickens are the “homesteading gateway animal.” Here is everything you need to know on caring for baby chicks and keeping them healthy.
Sustainable Gardening: What To Do Before You Plant Your Seedlings
Living sustainably and starting a garden is economical and will help your children learn the essential skill of growing food as naturally as possible. But there is some prep work to be done to ensure a healthy, thriving garden.
The Cheapskate’s Guide to Productive Hobbies
It is vital to take time out of the day to relax. Try some of these productive hobbies to kill extra time. Often your hobby can turn into an additional source of income.
The Crop Yields Found in Vertical Farming Will Blow Your Mind
This vertical farm is what community wide preparedness would like. If our society was serious about sustainability, and reluctant to rely on an aging and vulnerable infrastructure for its needs, greenhouses like this would be everywhere.
The Good and the Ugly: Beneficial Creatures You Need Around Your Garden
There are many beneficial insects and animals for our garden that prefer not to have around. Knowing a little more about your strange neighbors in or near your garden may help you in unexpected ways.
