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Having to subsist on a survival garden may seem like a distant reality right now. But whether you would ever have to live on the produce from your own garden is not relevant here. Your investments in the survival garden ...

Your stockpile for disaster preparedness and survival probably has a good selection of major food groups. Grains, root crops, pulses and other vegetables may provide all the nutrition you need, but it’d be quite boring to subsist on them without ...

Root cellars could be called feats of engineering dating back millennia, but very little technology, other than careful observation of nature and the trial-and-error method, may have gone into their construction and usage. Just plain need of storing excess produce ...

Fire is one natural phenomenon that shaped human culture like no other. By taming this genie, our ancestors had at least some amount of power over nature. But even today, without the fire-making devices such as matches and lighters that ...

A horse is a wonderful addition to any homestead, but owning one is a huge undertaking. Before even thinking about purchasing or adopting any equine, be sure to consider each of these seven factors. 1. Do you have enough space? ...

Does wheat form a significant portion of your regular diet? It is hard to keep track of our actual amount of consumption, simply because this grain appears in so many different forms and different names in the processed foods that ...

Many of us eat quite a few leaves and roots almost daily, and occasionally some tender shoots too, such as asparagus and bamboo shoots – but imagine eating bark! That’s best left to some borer insects, you might think. Maybe ...

Sleeplessness is a very real problem, affecting more than 20 percent of adult Americans. Insomnia may result from anything from physical illnesses to emotional issues, imbalances of hormones to a disruption in the circadian rhythm that controls our sleep-wake cycles. ...

Do you balk at the thought of moving to a rural location but are not sure of how life away from all of your conveniences would be like? Perhaps in the city you’re close to everything — be it schools, ...

Modern-day homesteading is a consciously taken, voluntary decision to live in a highly self-sufficient manner. At one time in our history, everyone was a homesteader and lived a life full of hard physical labor just to put food on the ...