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Owning and operating a wood stove is like many activities: easy enough when you know how, but challenging when you don’t. Having a roaring conflagration sitting in a metal box inside your house can be a little intimidating, especially when ...

Let’s face it: Prepping is an inexact science. There’s no way we can make perfect decisions on how to prep for a disaster when we don’t know what disaster we are prepping for or when it will come. All we ...

  1. Too many (or too few) roosters. It’s true that you don’t need a rooster to harvest eggs, but a gentleman tends to keep the ladies happier and helps to break up domestic squabbles between the hens. He’ll also ...

It’s the time of year when gardeners and homesteaders are scrambling to preserve our harvest in order to enjoy the literal fruits of our labors as close to year-round as possible. For a lot of us, that means canning. Most ...

For more than a decade, I’ve carried concealed and competed in area matches. Now I’m an instructor. As a practitioner and teacher of concealed carry and gun handling, there are a handful of errors that don’t surprise me anymore. Some, ...

There is more to gardening than meets the eye. From the viewpoint of one who has never tried growing their own food, it may appear to be simply a case of tilling up some soil, popping a few seeds in, ...

Gardening is one of those fun hobbies that is never perfected – and that always includes a few annual mistakes. So before you get too involved in your garden this year, why not ensure you’re not making the most obvious ...

As a concealed firearms instructor I see students come through my classes from all walks of life, and they all seem to make the same basic mistakes when it comes to carrying a concealed weapon. Here are the top five ...

There are about 319 million people living in the United States, and approximately 3 million of them are survivalists, preppers, or whatever the parlance is of our times (I prefer to call them realists). What does that mean? Well, it’s ...

During a crisis, there are no “do-overs.” You need to prepare now. You need to prepare well. Make a crisis bearable by not making these thoughtless mistakes. 1. Got water? This might be the first thing you think of storing, ...