Virtual Hamfest and Swapmeet

Do you use Twitter? Have you heard of the new Preppertalk hashtag?Simply add #preppertalk to your tweets and join the prepper conversation…officially from 6 – 9 pm but it can go on 24/7. Ask questions, offer advice, or simply chew the prepper fat. It’s worth a look.

Do you feel the need to start cutting back your spending/consumerism based on the economic challenges that we here in Canada face today? Are you interested in finding ways to save on your monthly food bill and all of your other household expenses? Do you worry that you don’t have enough food stocked in your…

Even with the snow still lingering on the ground, now is the time to turn your attention to the outdoors and your food production for the coming season. Growing your own food is a sustainable way to prepare yourself for hard times. With some simple storage and preservation methods, you can produce some of your…

I spent a glorious summer many years ago working in the Waterton National Park. A local family graciously offered me an opportunity to live in a cute little homestead house on their ranch at the base of the mountains. It was a dream come true…. until the second night. I was sitting on the couch…

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…