Food / Water / Gardening

Most people get most of their food from the supermarket. Even most of your homesteaders. Sure they may grow a few rows of corn, or raise a few chickens and provide a fair portion to supplement, but even then a lot of our food still comes from the market, especially …

Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to the store to buy bread and milk at even the mention of a bad storm.  Can you blame them? Statistically the next …

Your family has an overall water consumption need. Potable water for drinking and hygiene as well as non potable water. The average recommendation is to have enough water to last two weeks. Lets go over a breakdown of the water your family should require. This is a general rule of …

Challenge: An oil crisis hits overseas and American truckers eventually lose the ability to access fuel here in America for their vehicles due to shortages. After two weeks our nation’s food transportation system is completely disabled due to lack of fuel. Grocery store shelves are emptied after 48 hours of …

Vinegar is a liquid composed of water and the key ingredient acetic acid. Vinegar is used mainly for cooking but in days and ages past it had a great uses in several sectors of daily life. Use ranging from medical, industrial and even domestic have been excellent though long forgotten. …

You don’t need acres to grow hundreds of pounds of potatoes. All you need is a small 4 sq ft box! That’s right! Great things can come in small packages. If you are tight for space or just want to try something very cool this can be an amazing option. …

Are you tight on space? Can not grow a large garden? Cant grow a small garden? Cant grow anything?  The dog tramples your garden yearly? Rabbits eat your stock? Clay soil? Torrential downpours or floods wash away your garden? Have you looked into growing vegetables in containers? This is a …

Article originally posted at Mother Earth News By: Linda Holliday During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we went. Creeks and ponds dried up (some never recovered) and the water table dropped, forcing a few neighbors to …