Are you like me? Despite the fact that we’ve left the country to move back to the ‘burbs, that doesn’t mean that I’ve given up my dream of homesteading. If anything, my dreams are both more realistic and bigger than before. What about you? Even if at the moment there’s […]
Tag: Gardening
The First 11 Things a New Prepper Should Learn – A Refresher for the Rest of Us
So as I’ve worked through creating this series for National Preparedness Month, I’ve had to ask myself some questions – What things were the most important to me? What things did I use the most? Are there things that I think could be the difference between life and death that […]
Fruits and Vegetables to Plant in October that Will Grow Over the Winter
Have you noticed recently that food prices have been getting higher and higher? Sometimes it feels like we are at the mercy and whims of people with much more power than we have. Power to create shortages, to raise prices, to cause inflation. So what can we do about that? […]
Normal People Preparing for TEOTWAWKI – Food Systems
While we can only live for three days without water, we can live as long as 3 weeks without food. But it would be three miserable weeks, which would ultimately end in death, if we had nothing to eat. So we need to get food systems in place NOW to feed […]
What Role (If Any) Does Physical Fitness Play in Preparedness?
Does Physical Fitness Play a Role in Preparedness? I’ve had to bug out a total of three times. Living through a tornado hitting our home and through the Ferguson Riots gave me several opportunities to practice. One of the things that I learned from my experience is that bugging out rarely […]
Start Prepping Here: The Basics of Food Storage
We started this series in September and we’ve covered a bunch of different topics from sanitation, to water basics, to why we prep. Did you think just MAYBE I was going to forget to cover………….food? I mean this is A Year Without the GROCERY STORE. Yea, we’re going to cover […]
8 Types of Perennial Fruits and Vegetables for Years of Fruitful Harvests
When I talk about gardening, most people’s minds immediately head to something like the picture above. A large garden where you get down and dirty……in the dirt of course and plant your foods at least once a year, if not two or three times a year. Yes, that is gardening. […]