Have you ever wanted to preserve food with some easy canning recipes? Perhaps you are a keen gardener, and you would like to save some of that fabulous produce you have worked so hard to grow. Maybe baking is your thing, and you would like to make your own jams and preserves to use with […]
25+ PVC Projects for Your Homestead or Backyard that You can do This Weekend
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Need a project to fix a problem in your backyard this weekend? Here are 25+ DIY PVC projects for your homestead, backyard, or garden that you can tackle in a day! Sometimes, we get stuck trying to find the solution we’re looking for. If you’re like me, getting your eyes on some great visuals is […]
Introduction to Emergency Preparation: #10 Cans
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When it comes to emergency planning, many households struggle to know where to begin. Unknowns are hard to plan for, especially creating a food stockpile with limited information. Number 10 cans, also written #10 cans, are really useful to you. There’s no telling what the problem will be. Is it an earthquake? Is it a […]
How to Can Applesauce: All You Need to Know
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Whether you’ve bought or picked too many apples — or are just looking to get creative in the kitchen — learning how to can applesauce is a great way to prepare, store, and enjoy your apples. If you don’t have an apple tree or aren’t staring at apples you need to use up, we’ll tell […]
25+ Cinder Block Projects You Need for the Homestead
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You have all of these ideas, but never enough money to make them come true. But have you thought of other ways of putting those projects together with materials that might not cost as much and can be upgraded for a fraction of the cost of the original project idea? That’s one reason why I […]
How to Build a Brick Rocket Stove in No Time Flat
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Do you need an alternative cooking source that is inexpensive, quick to put up, relatively mobile, and easy to use that is more than a small rocket stove? Today, one of my friends, Bunny Wickham, is guest posting on the blog, sharing her story of how she and her husband built a concrete brick rocket […]
Redneck Air Conditioner and 15 More Ways to Keep Cool in the Summer
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Summer’s here and your air conditioning went out. How do you stay cool until it can be repaired? I’ll show you with this great hack, plus give you even more ways to keep your cool when it gets hot! A few years ago, during the worst heatwave, we’d experienced in a couple of decades, our […]
How to Make a Solar Cooker with Trash
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Thinking ‘inside the box’ and some ingenuity, a solar cooker can be made out of trash you find anywhere. Have an old satellite dish you’re not using any longer? What about that pizza box from yesterday’s lunch. Or the Amazon box that came from the UPS man…or even a Pringle’s can! All you need […]