So you’ve resolved to try living without electricity for a period of time, but how do you survive without the ever-present electrical grid that seems to be sewn into our lives? Here are 13 tips that will help you go off the grid successfully. 1. Consider food preservation options  If you’re serious about this experiment,… Continue reading How to Live Without Electricity: 13 Top Technical Tips

With these helpful tips, you will be able to provide for your family and make sure nothing goes to waste. 1. How To Prevent Weeds From Spreading Weeds are very destructive in any garden, but there’s an easy way to keep them at bay. All you need is a black plastic bag (a garbage bag… Continue reading 10 Superb DIY Gardening Hacks Everyone Should Know

Everybody has heard of self-sufficiency and self-reliance, but it’s surprising how little most people know about self-sufficiency gardening. A self-sufficient garden can be a self-reliant gardener’s best friend, providing him with fresh vegetables every day of the year. By growing your foods in a self-sufficient garden you get to control what goes into them. You… Continue reading Tips for How to Build Self Sustaining Garden

The wine cap mushroom is a fungus in the family of Hymenochaetaceae. It grows on trees and wood. The mushrooms are characterized by their funnel shape caps that are brownish-red in colour. They have long stalk with no ring or veil under their caps, unlike other mushrooms. This kind of mushroom is very easy to… Continue reading Tips to How to Grow Wine Caps Mushroom

Getaway is a small house built in the middle of little cabins in the woods. The little cabin in little cabins in the woods houses plants and animals and provides shelter for people. The little cabin has windows facing all directions, to provide light inside without letting too much light in during the night. By… Continue reading Getaway at Little Cabins in the Woods

When deciding on where to live and what to do, many people come across an option that seems like a great idea: homesteading. Homesteading is the process of moving to and living off the land and it can be done anywhere in America; however, some people choose homesteading more than others because of farmland.   People… Continue reading How to Start Farm In Connecticut

The word homesteading is a very old term, with established laws circling it. In the United States, homesteading has been around since 1862 when President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. To break down what homesteading means from an American perspective, a home place is a location where a person lives and works on a particular… Continue reading 15 Homesteading Grants for Farm

The quest for self-sustainability is not an easy one. And if you’re aiming to live a simple life on your property, it’s even harder. You can cut down on the amount of work and energy needed to sustain yourself by following homestead blogs and learning from others’ experiences. If you want to start your homesteading… Continue reading Best Homestead Blog Sites

Welcome to this start-from-scratch homesteading guide! There are many reasons one might decide they want to change their lifestyle to something more self-reliant. Maybe you feel like society is becoming too consumerist, or that future generations will need to be much less dependent on others for support. Or maybe you think it’s simply fun and… Continue reading Beginners Guide to Homesteading

A cold room can be built to store anything you like, but the most common use is for storing food. The general concept of a cold room is simple: cool air lowers the temperature and it also keeps things cold as time progresses.  Building a cold storage room requires some preparation and planning beforehand, but… Continue reading How to Build a Cold Room In Your Garage