Food, Water & Garden 🥕

If you ask around about food storage you will find the same answer more often than not about eating what you store and rotating your food.  Rule number one: store what you eat and eat what you store. Rule number two: rotate your stock from oldest to newest as to eat your older rations first. Well this can be a daunting task if you (like so many others) simply stuff your canned… Read more

An empty fridge and hungry stomach may lead you to eat some crazy things. We don't need a SHTF scenario in order for this to happen. Lets keep in mind that nothing will stay good for ever if not kept in the proper environment. Lets take a look at 11 foods that never expire. Some of these foods need to be kept in their original packaging. The list of foods below will… Read more

I don't know a lot about bee keeping and wish I knew more. I know a lot of the positives however: A lot of tasty honey. Raw honey is one of the most nutritious foods out there full of vitamins and antioxidants. You also help the struggling bee population and they become healthier for it. I wish I knew a bit more about this fascinating art. I know of a few people… Read more

Here is a quick and easy way to make a self-watering, sub irrigated planter out of a handful of things you can pick up locally in just a few minutes.  Keep in mind this is my first attempt. I expect it to work well. I believe this method will conserve your water usage as well as the time you spend watering your plants, giving you time to do other things such as… Read more

Water. In tough times it is easily the key between life and death. Most disaster preparedness plans consist of bleach to use as an emergency method in making your drinking water safe to consume. Bleach does destroy most (not all) organisms that cause disease by chemically disinfecting it. While bleach works well enough it degrades over time and eventually loses all potency. Its sad to think of how many people probably have… Read more

Eggs go bad after a few weeks even with refrigeration right? Or is that just what we are lead to believe? Keeping eggs fresh even in a refrigerator for months at a time is hard to swallow I know. With a little time and some mineral oil you can preserve eggs for up to 9 months with no refrigeration needed. This is one of life's simple little tips that everyone should know… Read more

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 in the winter months. Below is a very cool article about living on a island in South-East Alaska known as the Prince… Read more

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 few things people race to purchase would be bottled water, batteries, generators but only after they get their foodstuff. There are a… Read more