Welcome to Part Two of our Bee-Tastic Series! If your love of bees has extended to beekeeping, check out a few amateur tips for maintaining a colony of the little black and yellow insects: Check With Local Ordinances Before doing anything else, check with your local ordinances to ensure beekeeping is legal in your area, …
Category: Self Reliance
How I Survived 3 Years of Living Overseas
I was lucky to live overseas for three years on a little island called Grenada in the Caribbean. It was a really unique experience, and I made some life long friends there. There were not a lot of luxuries in Grenada, and even simple ones like air conditioning came at a very high price. Still, …
Alternative Sources of Energy for Your Home
It is a well-known fact that our homes take energy to order to sustain modern living. We need electricity to complete all sorts of tasks around the house. We use it for powering our televisions, wash machines, kitchen appliances including stoves and dishwashers, vacuums, and computers. Just about everything we do around the house in …
Emergency Food Storage Tips
When the SHTF the last thing you want to worry about is where you’re going to get your food. As Hurricane Katrina proved, the government and FEMA can’t be relied upon to save you in time of emergency, so it’s up to you to keep yourself and/or your family fed for as long as it …
3 Ways to Become Financially Prepared When You’re Young
If you’re young and in high school or college right now, it’s very likely that you haven’t had to think too much about being financially savvy or prepared. In fact, you may be looking at hefty student loans or other financial decisions that could affect your entire future. However, don’t fret because starting a budget …
Choosing the Right Vegetables to Grow in Your Garden
For first timers, getting a garden started can be challenging. Having a successful garden depends upon a wide variety of factors including what vegetables you decide to plant, where your garden is located, dealing with pests, the time and effort you have to put into your garden, the weather and much more. In addition, there …
What will make your garden grow? Black gold!
If you are giving more than lip service to being prepared (assuming you have a decent yard), then you almost certainly have planted a nice garden to supplement your family’s supply of vegetables and fruits. A garden has so many things going for it, not only can it reduce your food bills, you can preserve …
Small Garden Ideas | Gardening in small places
I’m a lucky guy. Like many Americans, I have a modest suburban home, with a decent sized yard. A yard big enough that a 15×30 patch in the back corner, separated by old railroad ties from my lawn, serves as a vegetable garden. We also have a few cherry and peach trees and a small …
Are You Suffering From Radio Waves?
Sounds crazy huh? Well that question and questions related to it are now being studied by some leading scientists around the world. The study of electromagnetic energy covers a lot of ground, and this new field of study relates to what is known as ‘frequency pollution’. Have you ever wondered how a microwave oven actually …