Tag: homesteading

How to Make Mason Jar Oil Lamps

Mason jars are a staple item for nearly all preppers and homesteading families. The sturdy jars are first and foremost used to pressure can the annual harvest, but they possess a plethora of other potential uses as well. Oil lamps are one of those items that often gets passed down from generation to generation. Unless you …

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How To Provide For Your Family And Rebuild The Community After SHTF – Trading Posts

Taking the lone wolf approach to survival is popular with some in the prepper community, but many others focused on prepping for a SHTF scenario feel a family or mutual assistance group approach boasts the best chance to live through a disaster. All preppers should incorporate a post-disaster plan into their overall preparedness activities. Making …

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Food Preservation Tips That Will Protect Your Survival Garden And Meat Supply

Survival food is always near the top of any prepper “must have” list. Growing and raising your own food as well as watching for great deals on long-term storage food are common and potentially life-saving preparedness activities. Learning how to preserve your garden crops and livestock offerings will help stretch your prepping budget dollars and …

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Make Your Groceries Go Farther with Grannie Pam [Interview]

Growing your own food is just the first step in becoming more secure and self-reliant. Sure, most preppers, homesteading families, and off-the-grid folks know how to can and dehydrate their garden produce. But turning what you grow into complete meals and using your livestock to sustain a family is a bit more involved than simply plucking crisp veggies …

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Going Off-Grid ‘Starting From Scratch’ PART 4 Water Supply

Photo: Laura Simpson © 2014 – Lakes, streams and ponds provide potential water sources as well as fish In this series, we are considering the very basic steps that would allow anyone with average skills and the requisite adventuresome disposition, to successfully establish an ‘off-grid’ homestead. Going off-grid requires some of the same ‘spirit’ that …

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Starting From Scratch

Have you even dreamed of moving to a remote location and getting set-up to live a life totally off the grid? I’m sure that some people have had that notion, given all of the unsettling developments worldwide and domestically, especially within our own cities. It’s a fact that cities have become more and more dangerous over the past decade.

That said, getting out of the city may make more sense now than ever before:

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