How to Can Fresh Small Potatoes
How to Can Fresh Small Potatoes Canning is an easy and quick process that requires some fresh products, such as tender and young vegetables or fruits.When you plant your own veggies… Read more »
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Do You Have What it Takes to Raise Backyard Chickens?
Do You Have What it Takes to Raise Backyard Chickens? The simple fact that you even find yourself reading this article probably means that you satisfy the first requirement of raising… Read more »
Growing Potatoes in Straw: A Labor-Saving/Better Harvest Technique
Growing Potatoes in Straw: A Labor-Saving/Better Harvest Technique As a preparedness-minded person (& chief cook / bottle-washer), I often evaluate foods based on their shelf-life, ability to fill the eater… Read more »
A Time to Stop and Think about Survival
Who are the great thinkers of history? Aristotle. Newton. DaVinci. These names quickly come to mind. There were many, many others as well. Some names we may recognize. Others may… Read more »
Raised Bed Gardening, part 2
Probably the best known system of raised bed gardening is Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening method. About 30 years ago, he began to question why “traditional” gardening is done in particular ways,… Read more »
Raised Bed Gardening, part 1
Every year since we’ve owned our farm, we’ve delightedly tilled up the soil and lovingly poked seeds into the ground, envisioning the beautiful garden to come. We’ve put up fencing… Read more »
Choosing a Home Defense Weapon
You awake with a sudden jerk. Did you hear something? Was it glass breaking or were you dreaming? Silence. Maybe your mind was playing tricks on you. No! There it… Read more »