As we approach the end of summer, it is time to start thinking about fall crops. While most fruits and vegetables require too long to mature, there are many that you can plant now and still get in at least one harvest before any hard frost, or, if you live in an area that does…
Survival Plants That’ll Help Prevent Dehydration
Water and hydration are and should be at or near the top of any survivalists priorities when it comes to preparation – or in the event of a survival situation. Lack of hydration can start to degrade a person’s ability to cope in as soon as two days, depending on the environment they are in.…
(Video) Survival Gardening: Focus on These Foods for Success
As we have become more survival conscious, many of us have learned how to grow a lot of our own food in a garden. While in one sense, that is great news, too often, because of ignorance, we have focused on growing the wrong kinds of food if the goal is long-term survival. Instead of…
How to Grow and Utilize Lavender for a Variety of Survival Uses
Lavender is an extremely common and highly effective plant that can be used for just about anything. If you’ve ever wanted to grow your own lavender at home, it’s a lot easier than you think. In today’s post, you’ll learn how to grow lavender in your garden and even get a lesson on drying it.…
Create This AWESOME Worm Tower to Feed a Garden
Whether you are homesteading, preparing for a possible survival incident or even just growing for fun, gardening can be really difficult work. One of the major challenges is keeping your growing space fertilized and aerated. You can resort to chemical fertilizers, but if you do it wrong, you can do almost as much bad to…
Garden Tools a Survivalist Can’t Live Without
Growing your own food is one way of gaining a measure of self-sufficiency, provided you have the tools you need to match the space you are growing in. You can grow some food virtually anywhere – for years, for example, I had a rooftop garden in an urban area on a spare porch roof where…
(Video) Survival Gardening – How to Maximize Yield in a Smaller Space
One of the mainstays of self-sufficiency is growing your own food – the more you grow, the more food you get, the less you have to rely on traditional grocery stores for sustenance. A lot of us, however, do not have the space for a massive, in-ground garden, or we do not have the time…
Farmer Came Up With a Genius Solution to All of His Problems by Covering His Plants With…
Growing a garden is life affirming. Honestly, if you are successful the satisfaction you receive while plucking up those carrots, peas, tomatoes and rhubarb is awesome. You can say: “I did this! I created life!” Admittedly, it’s life you will soon consume but that is the whole point, after all! Still, there are obstacles…
Bad Buds: Plants That Inhibit Other Plants’ Growth
When we think about plants we probably theorize they are all the same thing and planting them together may not help but certainly, cannot hurt them. Unfortunately, that is not altogether true! As it turns out there are some chemicals in various plants and trees that can indeed harm and even kill their brothers and…
(Video) How to Collect Wild Mushrooms That Are Actually Okay to Eat!
Living off the land and providing good food for you and your family is just one of the perks of living off the grid and living on a planet full of wild plants that are available for us to eat. Do you ever worry, however, that you might not know what kinds of plants are…
If Near a Homestead, These 15 Trees Should be Removed Right Away
While many may believe that trees are harmless to their surroundings, there are some exceptions. In most cases, trees can provide shade, oxygen and much more in their natural settings. However, in the case of a homestead setting, there are trees that should be removed as soon as possible. If you’re living off the grid…
How to Grow Turmeric and Ginger While Living Off the Grid
There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own garden. Many of us dream of cultivating a nice patch of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Who needs to go to the market to pick up ingredients last minute when you’ve got food growing in your backyard? If you’ve ever wanted to grow fresh turmeric or…
(Video) How to Make a Wicking Bed Survival Garden
Whether it’s homesteading or prepping, gardening is an important part of sustaining ourselves. It does not matter if you are thinking about the present or future! Having a good, sustainable outlet of fresh vegetables, which depends on how good your soil is will prolong life indefinitely. Still, there are things to consider, especially if you are…
(Video) How to Put Together a Homemade Vertical (A-Frame) Hydroponic System
Hydroponic farming is one alternative to traditional, soil-based farming that utilizes enriched water to provide nutrients to plants while avoiding the need for massive amounts of garden space and soil. With a little innovation, just about any vegetable can be grown hydroponically in just about any setting – even in many urban backyards. Since self-food…
(Video) How to Build a Strawberry Herb Tower for Off Grid Living
If you’re new to gardening, you might not know that strawberries need to be planted in a certain way to grow. They are mostly needed to be hung in some sort of tower or above the ground. In this video, you’ll not only learn the correct way of growing strawberries in your own backyard, but…
How to Feed a Family Without Having the Soil or Space
You don’t have to have a soil-rich garden or large backyard space to feed your family well. We’re about to introduce to you to hydroponics, a type of hydroculture that helps plants grow by using mineral-based water solutions. With this concept of gardening, the plant roots aren’t binded by soil. With hydroponic growing, the roots…
Herbal Recipes Every Survivalist Should Know to Maintain Good Health!
It is easy in a day and age when synthetic drugs, treatments, and ointments can quickly address just about any illness, injury or ailment to forget that nature has given us a very powerful way to treat all of the above naturally. Herbal remedies in some cases are more effective than the fake stuff and…
They Show Us How to Test Our Soil. Learn What the Necessary Components Are to Ensure a Bountiful Harvest!
We all want great soil for our vegetables and flowers. The more nutrients the better the crop, right? The problem comes when you think you’ve got some great dirt there in front of you, looking rich and ready for planting, but then you discover it is not as fertile as at first determined. What results…
10 Gardening Tricks Not to Miss so Everyone Can Become a Successful Homesteader
We remember as a child, pulling up a pot in our backyard, finding a stick – broken on both ends – and pushing it into the soil. We then watered it every day, sure that something special would grow. The adults told us not to bother, nothing would grow from a broken stick, yet…
7 Delicious Edibles a Person Can Grow This Winter in Their Indoor Winter Garden
We think one time or another we have all wanted to try our hand at an inside the house garden. Granted, we were thinking more along the lines of spices, in small pots, but when that was successful it did amp up the motivation a bit. There are a lot more things out there to…