Many of those living off-the-grid and preparing for an uncertain future learn merely basic survival skills, such as starting a fire or purifying water. However, there are less common skills that could come in handy if disaster strikes. Here, we ...
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Master The Art Of Foraging
There has been a lot of space devoted in the homesteading literature to the things that you can produce from the land. That’s okay, because the back bone of any homestead is the food that you can produce with your ...
Read More »Dive into Hydroponics
When you grow your own food in an attempt to sever ties with big agriculture and the mega grocery stores that sell their wares, you sometimes have to get a little creative. The traditional way to produce food is to ...
Read More »Edible Plants, Part 3: Dangerous Look-Alikes
Please read this series of articles together to make sense of the logic and information contained within it. The premise article (Part 1) is an important introduction which explains the reasoning for the inclusion of food sources in an extreme ...
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In the wild, the ability to trap, hunt, or fish with the items you have with you is an excellent tool to have in your belt, but in the most extreme situations, by chance or by (inadvertent) choice, you may ...
Read More »A City Boy’s Guide to Surviving in the Wilderness
The wonderful thing about nature is that it provides, in abundance, just about anything we might need to survive. Life in the wilderness is sustainable because, what man or beast uses to survive is replaced by nature’s power of renewal. ...
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