By utilizing passive solar energy, our ancestors could use temperate differences to heat and cool their homes. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, right? And it is higher in the summer than in the winter. ...
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7 Smart Ways To Preserve Fish For The Hard Times Ahead
Preserve fish is something a lot of fishermen don’t even consider. They may eat a lot of fish at certain times of the year but go without at other times. With all the different ways to preserve fish, you can ...
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Beginning a new vegetable garden does not mean that one has to live on a large plot of land. Vegetable gardens are possible and doable in sectioned off backyards, and even in potted gardens kept on window sills and porches. ...
Read More »8 Steps To A City-Friendly Indoor Garden
Who says you can’t grow a great variety of crops inside the comfort of your own home? For many urban and city dwellers, lack of an outside space can be a disheartening reality, and if there isn’t a community garden ...
Read More »Essential Tips For Helping That Winter Garden Survive
Are you tired of looking out at a desolate and dead yard all winter long? This year, consider starting a winter garden! Even though gardening is considered a summer hobby, the rewards don’t have to stop when the days get ...
Read More »Teaching Your Children How To Live A Homesteading Life
As I sit down to write this article, I have just come in from doing the morning “chicken chores” with my three-year-old twin boys. My older son is taking out the trash and doing the morning egg run. My youngest ...
Read More »Why You Should Add Wheatgrass To Your Survival Garden
Have you ever been at a smoothie bar, scratching your head and wondering what wheatgrass was? Maybe you read an article or saw something on TV promoting how great wheatgrass was for you, but you couldn’t exactly figure out why ...
Read More »16 Tricks To Keeping Pests Away From Your Vegetable Garden
Fresh, green vegetables are essential for the health and well-being of every person in your family. Unfortunately though, most of the vegetables that you find at the supermarket are cultivated with the help of chemical based fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, and ...
Read More »How To Ensure Your Sustainable Garden Seeds Are Pure
Living off the grid means not relying on others. This includes your garden, which should be sustainable on its own—no fertilizer or pest controls in little plastic bottles from the store or colorful little packets from a Big Ag seed ...
Read More »The Ultimate Guide To Livestock Treatment
One of the great benefits of raising your own livestock is control over what the animals are given and how they are raised. There has been a flurry of new interest in meat and other animal products raised as “organic” ...
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