Season’s Greetings

The time has come once again to stop and think about everything we have to be thankful for. Some will be thankful for family, a home, a job and all the usual things. But as for myself, I am thankful that I didn’t have to dip into preps this past year. Another year without a…

Updating Your Emergency Preparedness Plan From time to time, people are reminded that their comfortable lifestyles could be torn from them by societal catastrophes or natural disasters. This has led many Americans to create emergency preparedness plans for themselves and their families. They often stash several months’ worth of food, medicine, ammo, and other supplies….

So what happens when SHTF and you run out of yeast? Well there is yeast in the air we breathe all around us as well as in the flour we use to bake bread. All you need to do is set out a bowl of food to capture and grow it. This is called sourdough….

Prepping 101  (formerly ‘The Living Sustainably and Independently, Sensible Prepping & Transitioning, Hands-on, Solar-Powered, All You Can Grow’)  WORKSHOP Saturday May 7, 2016 Sunflower Farm Renewable Energy Retreat Tamworth, ON Local authors Cam and Michelle Mather provide a complete overview to living a typical North American lifestyle powered entirely by renewable energy and prepping for…

The bestselling resource for modern homesteading, growing and preserving foods, and raising chickens, The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove, and…