You can find the first three parts of this Financial Preparedness series here, here, and here. Pretend with me that it’s August 20th. You head to your pantry to see what you can make for dinner and realize that the pantry is rather sparse. Since you don’t want to dig […]
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September Is National Preparedness Month!
You’ve had those times, haven’t you? You have one month to get some kind of big project done. Maybe you are helping organize a wedding. It’s the last month before the wedding and you feel like there’s so much to get done in just a little time. Maybe you remember […]
Homesteading in the Burbs – Fall Is on its Way
I saw a meme on Facebook the other day. Something along these lines: I have a love/hate relationship with fall. I really do adore the cooler temperatures, the beauty of the falling leaves. Yes, I do love sweaters, and (*gasp*) pumpkin! But I hate what fall represents. Fall means that […]
A Prepper’s Best Friend! How to Prepare, Season, and Cook with Cast Iron
You know who your best friend is. It’s the person that you spend all your time with. It’s the person that you’re careful to guard that relationship, to nurture it. You do things for your best friend that you wouldn’t do for just anyone. You buy gifts for that person if you […]
Homesteading in the Burbs – One Aspect of Prepping that Looks “Normal”
According to Wikipedia, homesteading is “a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve small-scale production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale.” Self-sufficiency It’s an important thing to consider when we’re talking about homesteading in the suburbs. […]
Family Sanity Preparedness – Boredom Busters
I’m a mom of five children. And even though we homeschool and we limit our kids time on media – both games and movies, it is amazing how when the electricity goes out summer, winter, or in between, the phrase out of several of my children’s mouths isn’t, “Mom, I’m […]
Do You Believe in Financial Preparedness?
Financial Preparedness and Good Friday Seven and a half years ago I was sitting in church on Good Friday. Dutiful Mom that I was, I had all four of my little ‘ducklings’ in a row (#5 was still in the middle of brewing) because my husband was in front of […]
Homesteading in the Burbs – Creating A Homestead Plan
Have you ever heard of Joel Salatin? He’s the author of books like Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal – War Stories from the Local Food Front, Folks That Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a […]
Technology Vs. Skills and Basic Equipment
Okay, I’ll admit it. I appreciate my time-saving devices and my stress saving devices! Who wants to have to build a fire in an old outside oven, let the heat and coals sit in it for hours BEFORE you get to bake your bread? Sometimes, the five minutes that it […]
Homesteading in the Burbs – Dream Big, No Matter How Small Your Property
I just finished being interviewed by a reporter for Vice. The subject was on food storage, preparedness, and homesteading. One of the questions that the reporter asked me was something along the lines of do I consider myself a prepper, a homesteader, or a mixture of the two. My answer was […]
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