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“It’s the end of the world as we know it” – at least that’s what the popular 1980s band REM reported in one of their biggest hits of the same name. TEOTWAWKI is a much talked about and much prepared ...

Illness and disease in animals can be very serious. If you keep animals on your small farm or homestead, you are responsible for keeping them well, both for their sake and your family’s. Your animals are a part of your ...

Finding shelter in an urban environment actually gives you the advantage over shelter in a wilderness environment. Shelter is one of the most important parts about survival, as it will keep you warm in the cold, cool in the heat, ...

For some homesteaders, preparing chickens for spring is as easy as throwing open the barn doors and letting them run. However, there are a lot of little things that go into getting things ready for your chickens to make the ...

Spring is a time of birth around a homestead—baby lambs, calves, foals, kids, chicks and a whole lot more. It is also a time of rebirth of things not so nice: weeds and poisonous plants. There are a lot of ...

Sadly, the world is not a perfect place.  Because of this fact, there are many people who do bad things to their neighbors.  It is important to keep yourself well defended against such people.  First, you must keep your loved ...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a coalition of Muslim states in northern Africa (Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and Tripoli) carried out a sustained military campaign directed against the Christian nations of western Europe, specifically England, Spain, France, and ...

Many of you might be quite concerned about protecting the property that matters most to you: your home.  Your home is where you keep your possessions, it is where your family sleeps, and it should always been seen as a ...

Many of us are saying “Good Riddance” to 2011 – but it’s not at all clear what 2012 has in store for us. Predictions are all over the map. Sometimes it seems as though analysts are determined to make the ...

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should be concerned with protecting us from the greedy agribusiness interests that are responsible for the rampant contamination of our food supply, this organization has much smaller fish to fry. At the urging ...