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Looking for a productive way to grow food that requires less work? Utilized in Germany and Eastern Europe for hundreds of years, hugelkultur (literally meaning “mound culture”) is a method of growing food that can be built using locally available ...

One of the first steps in bringing chickens to your backyard homestead is building a coop. The size of the coop depends on how many hens and roosters you intend to house. Opinions differ on the amount of space needed, ...

If you’re living off the grid or in any area that requires you to heat the house in the winter, chances are you use firewood as one of your heat sources, if it’s not the main source. Heating with wood ...

If you’re anything like me, then you probably don’t throw out a whole lot of your building scraps. But then they sit around the shed or garage and they get burned, or they rot, or they’re possibly used in some ...

If you live in an area where wood stoves are a main source of heat, you have probably already heard or taken part in the common argument over which type of wood burns best. Everyone seems to have their own ...

Being placed in a survival situation is an event for which many people simply are not prepared. Skills that may be irrelevant for everyday use – like knowing how to build a fire without matches or purifying water without tablets ...

One of the most common occurrences in any disaster scenario is for the power to go out. Let’s face it: Our country’s electrical grid is in sad shape. Even the American Society of Civil Engineers gave it a D+ in ...

A lot of people are looking at getting off the grid these days. Some are doing it for the purpose of saving money, while others are looking down the road and thinking that going off-grid is a much more secure ...

With the arrival of cooler months, cutting and storing wood for winter burning is once more brought to the forefront. While there may be no “wrong” way to go about selecting and splitting wood, some options are easier and faster ...

My father’s way of live has always been living mostly off the land and being independent. He is a practical man who prefers function over form, who despises buying grocery when he knows he can grow vegetables and hunt and ...