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Homemade, Healthful Granola In 7 Easy Steps
Granola has long been a food proclaimed by health nuts to be nutritious, delicious, and beneficial for the body. Some forms of it have been looked at with disapproval, due to the fat and sugar content...
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Make Your Own All-Natural Pet Shampoo
Storing up on supplies and learning how to become self sufficient impacts the whole family. Sometimes, this means the furry four-legged family members as well. Making your own food supplies is actually...
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Make Your Own Gel Candles
If you are like many people these days, you are cutting back on unnecessary expenses. This does not mean you have to cut out all of life’s little luxuries. Many people are learning to make products at...
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How To Color Homemade Soap
If you enjoy homemade soap making, you’ll no doubt be interested in experimenting with your soap—from the oils to the molds to the colors and probably much more. Soaps will naturally turn out different...
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How To Make Homemade Pectin
Grandmother’s jellies and jams made use of the various fruits available to her and were the perfect addition to add flavor to a cold-weather meal. I don’t know if all grandmas serve homemade jams and...
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Avoid Dangerous Toxins By Making Your Own Homemade Lotions
No matter the season or the climate, skin can get dry and irritated. And if you are living off the grid and working with animals and soil, you also likely know all about dry cracked hands as a result...
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Survival Candle Making 101
Before the advent of electricity, candles and oil lamps provided light indoors and out. Candles are still valued for their soft glow, although they’re rarely used for utilitarian purposes these days....
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Bug-Out Ready Weapons And Tools
In most desperate survival situations, you won’t have much on you. If you’re lucky, you’ll have a knife. (I’ve made it my own personal rule to always have a knife on me—nothing fancy, but at least a...
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What Will I Need to Make My Own Ammo?
Being ready for an emergency situation that could make living in the wilderness a necessity for you and your family involves a lot of time and planning. It also involves a lot of preparation so that...
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Best All-Natural Soap Recipes
A few years ago, tired of the cost and potential environmental hazards of commercial laundry soap, I started making my own detergent from washing soda, borax, and Fels-Naptha bars. It wasn’t long...
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How To Pick The Best Butter Storage
Prepping food plans commonly call for the token beans, rice, canned goods, and dried food products you can purchase online and at the grocery store. However, one thing that might be overlooked is a...
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5 Herbal Remedies For Respiratory Ailments
Make an herbal cough syrup to have on hand when colds, sinus infections, or flu appear. Syrups care is also an excellent way to administer herbs to children. I use maple syrup as the sweet base, as...
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5 Herbal Remedies For Respiratory Ailments
Make an herbal cough syrup to have on hand when colds, sinus infections, or flu appear. Syrups care is also an excellent way to administer herbs to children. I use maple syrup as the sweet base, as...
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26 Unbelievable Ways You Can Use Vinegar
These days, vinegar finds itself mainly as an ingredient in salad dressings and various types of pickles, canned or otherwise. Did you know that there are other uses for vinegar, many of which go...
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Top 7 Great-Tasting Zucchini Recipes
Most of the time, I like my neighbors and they like me. We chat over the mailbox or sit on the back porch discussing politics, our kids, and our work. But come August, something mysterious happens....
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7 Recipes For Your Summer Tomato Bounty
Gardening on the high plains of Colorado is an unpredictable effort. Last year, hail destroyed my pumpkins, flea beetles ravished my broccoli, and corn smut attacked my corn. This year, my...
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3 Secret Native American Foods To Keep You Alive Off-The-Grid
When the white man arrived on the shores of North America, the folks who already lived here had been thriving for hundreds of years, using foodstuffs that were available to them. If we are smart, we...
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How To Find And Use The Best Summer Peaches
Few summer treats compare to fresh, locally grown peaches. Sweet, juicy, and absolutely delicious, peaches appear in local markets for only a few weeks in the summer, depending on where you live. Get...
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How To Make All-Natural Yogurt In Your Own Home
Yogurt is full of healthy bacteria which keeps your digestive system running and provides calcium for healthy bones. It is a tasty way to start your family’s day and simple enough to make at home....
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How To Stockpile Full Meals For Emergency Situations
You’ve probably canned peaches or made your own freezer jam, but have you ever thought about canning actual meals? Forget commercial canned stews and soups, which are usually full of sodium, MSG and...
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