Are Grow Lights Worth it?
For those that have outdoor gardens, the thought of growing food indoors with artificial lights can seem like a ludicrous concept. Providing your plants with access to the maximum amount of possible sunlight is a basic strategy for increasing growth, and the sun is free. Purchasing and the operation of grow lights costs money, and …. Read More
How to Choose Your Bug Out Spot
If you’re not yet homesteading and would like to be more prepared for survival situations, you naturally want to have a bug out location ready just in case something happens. However, not just any spot will do. If the world starts to go south, you need to have a good and secure location that you …. Read More
Keep Your Chicken Coop Clean
When you are a homesteader, you likely have livestock. One of the most common types of livestock to keep is chickens. You can use them for their eggs, as well as their meat, if needed. Building or buying a chicken coop and raising chickens is relatively easy if you put in some time and effort …. Read More
DIY Winch (Video)
This video demonstrates and explains how you can make a powerful winch from only a rope and two strong cuts of wood. This can be used to remove a stump as the video shows, free a stuck vehicle, or assist in safely felling a tree in a direction you choose. The technique is easiest …. Read More
Pineapple
Pineapples are a fruit that requires some patience to grow, but not much else. If you buy pineapples from the store and have a spare container lying around you already have everything you need to grow your own pineapples. Here are some simple instructions for how you can grow delicious pineapples in your backyard …. Read More
Learn DIY Repair for the Homestead
If you are a homesteader, you need to invest time and effort in learning to do quite a few things that you may never have imagined yourself doing. In addition to taking care of livestock, growing food, and hunting for food, you also need to take care of many repairs around the house. When you …. Read More
Are You Making Prepper Mistakes?
If you are into learning how to survive and prepping, you read as much as you can on the subject, and you are generally willing to work hard to make sure you have everything you need when it comes to living after the SHTF. Of course, many out there do not take any steps beyond …. Read More
Cats as Pest Control on the Homestead
Homesteaders often find that they are at odds with a range of different pests, including rodents. You can find different methods to use when it comes to controlling those rodents. Some might use traps, while others might use poison. This tends to be a losing battle though. The traps are not likely to kill …. Read More
Be Aware of Bears on Your Property
When you are homesteading, and living out in a rural area, you need to contend with all the wild animals that also happen to live in that location. You could have coyotes, foxes, and plenty of other critters that might want to get up to no good on your property. However, some that can be …. Read More
Survival Skills You Need Now
Do you have all the survival skills you need? Would you be able to survive if the world as we know it were to implode tomorrow? While you might have some skills that others are lacking, you might not have everything you need to survive. Just because you know how to read a compass and …. Read More