Tea tree oil is both nature’s antibiotic and disinfectant. The list of medical uses for this essential oil is nearly endless. A homesteading, off-the-grid, or prepping family should keep at least 24 bottles of essential oil on hand for every ...
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4 Simple Animal Traps For Off-Grid Survival
Survival snares and traps will help feed the family during a long-term disaster or simply if you’re looking to supplement the menu choices when living off the grid or on a rural homestead. Traps and snares hang, trap, crush or ...
Read More »Six ‘Lost’ Off-Grid Lessons From The Amish Community
Several years ago we had a week-long power outage in my region. We live in a fairly old-fashioned rural community. Nonetheless, panic still set in somewhere around hour 12 of the weather-related disaster. It was summer, a really, really hot ...
Read More »11 Winter Survival Skills Every Child Should Know
Are you attached to your child at the hip every minute of every single day? Your children have a far greater chance of survival if they possess some basic self-reliance skills and have practiced the emergency disaster plan with the ...
Read More »7 Home Fortification Tips For Anyone On A Budget
Home fortification is likely at the top of the preparedness “to-do” list. If you have very deep pockets, building a fortress is feasible, but for most of us, budget-minded tasks will have to do. Evaluating a home’s strengths and weaknesses ...
Read More »How To Make Dirty Water Crystal Clear With A Simple Survival Still
Making a simple survival still is not an extremely complicated task. Even the old-fashioned and low-tech devices can take undrinkable and foul-smelling water, even ocean water, and turn it into safe drinking water. When Louis and Clark spent years exploring ...
Read More »Amish Farmer Sold Herbal Salves. The Feds Sent Him To Prison For 6 Years
Making money by selling your off-grid homemade products apparently can land you in prison. An Amish farmer in Kentucky discovered this the hard way when he was sentenced in late June to six years in prison for selling homemade herbal ...
Read More »Couple’s Floating Homestead Boasts Greenhouses, Gardens, Garage, Bedrooms … And A Lighthouse
May 19, 2017 A Canadian couple is celebrating 25 years living off-grid – and they don’t even live on land … or on a boat, either. Wayne Adams and Catherine King built an entire floating homestead they lovingly refer to ...
Read More »Obama Approved One More Anti-Gun Rule Before He Left Office
WASHINGTON — The Second Amendment rights of some of America’s most vulnerable citizens are now under attack. During his final days in office, President Obama’s administration ushered in a federal firearms rule deeming tens of thousands of disabled citizens “mental ...
Read More »Russia Building ‘Dozens’ Of New Underground Bunkers – ‘Getting Ready For A Big War’
MOSCOW — Is a nuclear war looming on the horizon? Russia seems to be preparing for just that, as a shocking new report reveals that “dozens” of new underground bunkers are being constructed throughout the former Soviet Union. Citing ...
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