Off-Grid Foods

We eat a lot of popcorn in our house. It’s a relatively cheap snack that is still yummy and healthy. It’s also easy to fix and...

Image source: LATimes.com Ah, the joy of spreading homemade jam or jelly on hot buttered toast or biscuits. Making jams and jellies has become a fairly...

Image source: anorganicconversation.com Most of us eat fermented foods without even knowing it. Condiments you use such as ketchup and soy sauce, the sauerkraut or pickles...

image credit Wikihow.com Superfoods. Sure, we all know that we should be adding them to our daily diets for optimal health. But with seemingly “new and...

In homesteading, you are forced to relearn many vanishing arts and sciences. From heritage pigs to heirloom vegetables, and from home remedies to natural pesticides, things...

It’s fall. That means it’s time for pumpkins galore. I’m a big fan of pumpkins and gourds and pretty much any variety of winter squash. I’ll...

I love every season in the garden and in the kitchen. Now that summer is officially over and my fresh produce from the garden has started...

All chickens will be raised indoors, if the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has its way. The federal agency is now targeting pastured poultry, free-range...

Raw milk farmers are under attack once again, this time in Pennsylvania. The Department of Agriculture is being accused of filing false claims about unpasteurized milk...

As homesteaders and peppers, we tend to think that we wrote the book on preparedness and self-sufficiency. The simple truth of the matter is that the...