Preparedness is about covering all the bases. If and when you find yourself in the middle of a crisis, you want to make sure you’ve got it all. Food, water, medical care, a means of protecting yourself — these are considerations that you may have already taken care of in your prepping plan. But, there […]

Tomatoes are one of the most delicate plants to care for, especially when it comes to pruning. Pruning has tremendous benefits to offer. Properly pruning your tomato plant helps improve their form and prevent fungal growth and bacterial disease. Left unpruned, tomatoes produce dense growth that prevent the leaves from drying, which in turn may weigh […]

What if you could build an inexpensive, energy efficient, self-sufficient home for as little as $30,000 and kiss monthly bills and mortgage payments goodbye? Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, one couple from Bisbee, Arizona, made this little fantasy come true. Karen and Bill, both in their fifties, started building their 600-square-foot house […]

Although sweet potatoes are an important staple food for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, this versatile, orange root tuber can be added to many other meals all year round. While sweet potatoes have been used for ages by many cultures around the world, until recently they weren’t a regular sight on American kitchen tables outside of […]

Officials in Jackson County, Oregon have again shown their disrespect for private property rights, telling a local couple they must tear out a 40-year-old two-acre pond located on the property they bought two years ago. Jackson is the same county that recently imprisoned and fined another area landowner, Gary Harrington, for illegally collecting rainwater – […]

Preparation is key for the survival of a social and economic crisis which can lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation. An epidemic with a significantly increased mortality rate could come as a direct consequence of a widespread disaster, economic collapse or nuclear attack. These risks are growing in the United States. People who are prepared […]

The Federal Government, more specifically, the Bureau of Land Management, are again coming under close scrutiny for their involvement and handling of the ongoing saga with Cliven Bundy and his family. The newest allegations, against an agency with an already somewhat tarnished reputation, state that the BLM used an FBI infiltration team, posing under the […]

It’s no secret that housing in San Francisco remains outrageously expensive, but if one recent Craigslist ad is to be taken seriously, it seems that the situation could be reaching a new low. A pair of self-described 20-something start-up guys placed an ad offering up their crawlspace for the bargain price of $500 per month. […]

Backyard chickens have exploded in popularity. They can provide your family with a delicious source of protein from their eggs and/or meat. They can also provide a life lesson for your children in the care and keeping of a flock, their poop can enrich barren soil and, due to their intricate social network, you can enjoy hours […]

Cow dung and clay have been combined into an art form, but this isn’t the first time. According to the BBC, the rich blue gazes, “dating from the late fifth millennium BC,” may have had cow dung as ingredients. Today in Italy, a farmer has taken his pedigreed bovines excrement, mixed it with clay and […]

(Homesteading.news) There are lots of good reasons to have free-range chickens on your homestead, but one of the best reasons may be because generally speaking, they stay healthier than factory-farm chickens. Remember last year’s bird flu outbreak, when thousands of chickens were affected? Free-range chickens weren’t. The outbreak that devastated the U.S. poultry and egg […]

(Homesteading.news) In a world awash with pharmaceutical drugs for everything from dandruff to toenail fungus, it’s refreshing to have do-it-yourself home remedies and trusted old wives cures to heal a wide range of ailments. Baking soda is a staple in most homes and is useful for cooking, cleaning and in many home remedies. Although it’s […]

(Homesteading.news) (BPT) – The months of summer are a perfect time to hunt for hidden one-of-a-kind treasures buried in neighborhood yard sales. Whether it’s an old wooden dining chair, coffee table or bookshelf, there is beautiful potential in what others view as old and outdated. And with just a few handy touch-ups, it’s easy to transform […]

(Homesteading.news) If you’re shopping for an all natural toothpaste, the list of ingredients to avoid includes diethanolamine, propylene glycol, fluoride, aspartame, saccharine, sodium lauryl sulfate, Triclosan, glycerin, sorbitol, and microbeads. After careful examination of the ingredients, the discerning shopper will see the similarities between food products and other body care products. There are a lot of […]

(Homesteading.news) If time is a teacher, one thing we know is that apple cider vinegar is good stuff. The Babylonians used it as a tonic in 5000 B.C. so its been around for a while. It was also used in ancient Egypt (3000 B.C.) and by Samurai warriors in Japan (1200 B.C.), so it’s grandfathered in […]