All posts tagged "gardening"
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How We Created An Off-Grid Market Garden And Sustainable Business
Have you ever considered creating your own off-grid market garden? Our contributor Ken has put together a guide on how he did it and the...
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10 Spices With Health Benefits You Can Start Growing Today
While spices are excellent cooking ingredients, they are also well known for their health-boosting properties. More than that, they are free and easy to grow in...
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Homesteading Skills – 5 Old Time Practices You Need To Know Now
Bringing back the old ways of homesteading Homesteading is becoming more and more popular as people learn some of the homesteading skills used in the...
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8 Medicinal Plants You Can Grow At Home – And How To Use Them
Grow your own medicine with these medicinal plants Part of taking charge of your health is knowing what herbal remedies you can use instead of...
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What Should You Prepare For? The 5 Levels Of Preparedness
When people ask “what do you prepare for”, I really cannot provide any more of an answer than “anything”. This is the same for many...
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4 Methods For Rainwater Harvesting For The Self-Sufficient Home
Rainwater is the best resource for any homestead. Rainwater harvesting, directing, and storing rainwater for use later is a great way to be self-reliant as...
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How To Can Food: 5 Steps To Get Started With Canning
Canning, it’s easy to preserve your food for a rainy day We all work so hard to bring in bumper crops of fruits and vegetables...
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5 Lessons I Learned Building A Backyard Vegetable Garden
Have you ever tried to make your vegetable garden? We did, and while ours wasn’t quite as successful as we hoped it would be, it...
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7 Things You Should Know To Run A Food-Providing Greenhouse
In the modern world, most people get their meals thanks to a massive, global food economy. In your local grocery store, you’re likely to find...
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Homesteading Principles Could Stop A Fatal Food Crisis In Venezuela
The writer of these posts is a middle-class Venezuelan father, in a country which has the world’s highest inflation rate at more than 4000%. Venezuela is an economic collapse...
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Sunflowers and Radiation: Nature’s Answer To Clean Contaminated Soil
In this very informative post from preparedness writer James Ryan, we find out how the humble sunflower removes radiation from contaminated soil, and how it...
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City Farming: If Your Yard Looks Like This You Could Make USD$950/wk
Making money out of your own parcel of land, whether it be five square meters, or 10, is easier than you imagine and as we...
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The Complete Guide To Getting Started With Homesteading
Homesteading, the practice of self-sufficiency, farming and making your own things, is not only a weekend activity, it’s a lifestyle and it is becoming very...
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6 Best Vegetables To Grow In An Urban Garden
Whatever you do it for, urban farming is a trend that is becoming more and more popular as backyards, rooftops and small apartment balconies are...
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Winter Is Coming: 10 Things You Should Do To Prepare For Winter
Winter is just around the corner, and while it is a distracting season with preparations for Christmas holidays and that well-earnt vacation time within reach, there...
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Self-Sufficiency And Jobs: How People Are Preparing For Automation
IN SHORT: – Preparing for an automated future with self-sufficiency – We asked on Reddit and Facebook what people were doing to prepare – Three...
