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Those of us who have run a farm or homestead also know how important it is to conserve resources. If you manage your land properly, you won’t have to worry about poor soil quality or the erosion problems that many ...

I’m sure many of us remember hearing at one time or another that a goat will eat just about anything. A fellow I once knew told me you can never trust a goat around farm equipment because they will eat ...

I remember the day I first saw her. There I was in a large crowd amongst merchants peddling me the latest and greatest inventions and innovations, and that’s when I saw her. She was rather plain, almost homely in appearance, ...

Starting to prepare for a long-term crisis can seem daunting. It can be even moreso when you only have a couple hundred dollars to put toward survivalist preparation every couple weeks or every month. So what can you do to ...

Lately, I have been very concerned about what is happening in this world. Terrorism around the globe, political games in D.C., and devastating natural disasters fill news reports every day. As a husband to my lovely bride and a father ...

Anyone who has grown up in farm country is probably familiar with the fact that pigs can be stinky. In fact, they can stink way worse than the neighborhood kid you knew growing up that never took a bath or ...

When I first began to prepare an emergency stockpile, I was dismayed at the cost of emergency food. Freeze-dried food and ready-to-eat meals (MREs) can be expensive for those on a budget – myself included. So how can you quickly ...

If there is one thing I hate, it is not having the proper tool for a job. I compare it to asking a girl to marry you, and then asking your future mother-in-law to accompany the two of you on ...

Before the age of modern refrigeration, most people relied on what we would consider primitive methods to preserve meats. If you were wealthy, or had the means, you might have relied on ice to preserve some foods. The extremely wealthy ...

Like many farm kids, I grew up with fresh eggs every morning. I remember heading out to the chicken coop in the cool, early morning hours. Creaking open the door, I would sneak inside and move a hen out of ...