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What to Know About Adding Animals to Your Homestead
Homesteaders everywhere choose to add animals to their property. Animals make excellent pets, companions, workers and even food sources. Sometime along your own homesteading journey, you may think about adding your own animals to your homestead. There’s a lot to know before adding animals to your homestead, though. Multiple animals mean that you have numerous…
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Can Liberals Survive the Apocalypse?
I needed something funny to lighten my mood today, and this was it. Enjoy!
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Food Buckets and Canning Scams?
I think the lesson here is to be careful where you buy from. Just because it sounds like a deal that’s too good to be true then, well, it probably is!
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Common Misconceptions About Heating and Cooling Your Homestead
Deciding to live off-the-grid means you begin sustaining your life without all of the modern technologies. You find ways to source your own water. You plant gardens and harvest fruit from trees. You begin to source your energy from more renewable sources than those that deplete the earth. Plus, you likely have a few animals…
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How Preppers Prepare for a Second Wave
The novel coronavirus first emerged in late December 2019, which has profoundly changed our world and day-to-day reality. During the spring and summer of 2020, communities began to reopen bars, restaurants, and stores. People were eager to go back to their normal daily activities. A few of us may have imagined (or just hoped) that…
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Parabolic Mirror Solar Cooking
Makes me want to do solar cooking again…and to have a grilled cheese sandwich, lol. Just be careful where you aim that mirror because it could start a fire!
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9 Crucial Items Preppers Recommend In Case of Another Lockdown
Covid-19 has taught the world that we aren’t typically prepared as individuals or as a society to cope with sudden, massive upheavals. In order to avoid widespread shortages of food in the future, one would do well to seek the advice of those who have planned for events of this magnitude for years, if not…
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13 Exercises to Strengthen Your Mental Fortitude for Survival
Have you ever wondered how some people become billionaires while others slave away at a 9-to-5 job their entire lives? While opportunity may have something to do with their achievement, success stories like Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma aren’t merely the result of smarts, physical strength or leadership potential. Rather, these people used perseverance, grit…
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Why It’s Important to Build Roads and Trails on Your Homestead
Roads and trails get you where you need to go every day. Millions of people drive for miles on the streets that shape their region to get to work, school or the store. Throughout national and local parks, marked trails tell hikers where they’re going so they can see main attractions and enjoy nature without…