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One of the annual challenges on the homestead farm is keeping a fresh water supply available to livestock during freezing temperatures. Depending on your climate, this can be for a few days of freezing weather — or months of sub-zero ...

Drilling a well is a rather expensive operation, often costing several thousand dollars. But if you’re going to drill your own well, the first question you’re going to need to ask yourself is: Where? Where is the best place on ...

Did you know that run-off from road salt can affect soil and water in a similar way as acid rain? According to a study by University of Maine researchers, road salt run-off at concentrations of 220 milligrams per liter can ...

There’s no doubt that there is a lot of helpful information out there about wilderness survival from experts and those who made it out of a crisis situation themselves. Unfortunately, there’s also a lot of false survival information out there ...

January 25th, 2016 Video courtesy of The Good Stuff An Earthship is a home that captures its own water, recycles its own sewage, and produces all its own electricity and food. It’s meant to function completely independent of the power ...

Survival cement has been used for thousands of years, and it’s still in use on a daily basis in some undeveloped parts of the world. But let’s begin with the basics: What is “survival cement”? The simple answer is a ...

There are people in the world preparing for every kind of disaster.  Possible doomsday scenarios include economic collapse, biblical Armageddon, cyberattack, polar shift, enemy invasion, irreversible climate change, and electromagnetic pulse — just to name a few. To some, it ...

It finally happens … the crisis you’ve been preparing for. All that training and stockpiling you’ve been doing is going to start paying off. What you do during the next few days might decide whether you and your family make ...

The subject of off-grid living often conjures images of a two-story homestead, lush rolling hills, and a bountiful garden. But that’s not the only path to living off the grid, and on this week’s edition of Off The Grid Radio ...

Earth’s potable water reserves are depleting fast, and while we hope for the best, we must prepare for the worst-case scenario. So today, let’s look at a few DIY desalination projects. Water desalinization really works, and you don’t have to ...