How to Tell Your Food is Spoiled

As a homesteader, much of what you do throughout the year involves preserving, preparing, and conserving food. Therefore, it is important to know the...

How To Calculate Your Water Needs For Survival

I’m really trying to emphasize storing water big time because I don’t want my readers standing in line to get water from their local...

The Power of Feijoas

Hooray, it’s feijoa season! Perfumed green fruits like no other, and the final harvest of our autumn. Here are a few tips for growing,...

How to Grow and Dry Your Own Herbs

As a new gardener, I often found the task of growing prize-winning tomatoes and succulent melons very daunting. Can I say succulent melons here?...

Recipe – Roasted Poblano Salsa

I’m feeling decidedly uncreative this year… …as far as food preservation goes. Am I allowed to say that? There I go, losing my homesteader status points again… I’m...

Great Gardening Books for Preppers

Winter is the season of soup, long nights, and at our house – great gardening books! It’s this time of year when we plan,...