Back To Basics: Making And Canning Homemade Butter
Butter: you use it to make baked potatoes delicious. You smear it on your biscuits and you make finger-licking sauces with it. But what on...
Category: Self Sufficient
How I Feed My Family of 5 for Practically Free Every Month
Have you ever thought, “Man, I wish I didn’t have a grocery bill every month?” I felt the same way a couple of years ago....
10 Benefits of Hydroponic Gardening You Never Knew About
Hydroponic gardening is becoming all the rage. Indeed, there are restaurants like New York City’s Bell, Book, and Candle that grow their food from hydroponic...
14 Cheap Ways To Feed Your Chickens
Owning chickens can be an expensive venture if you rely solely on purchased feed. Obtaining the feed will also be a problem if the transportation...
Stacking Functions: Increasing Efficiency with Multi-Function Spaces
Stacking functions is a quick term for the concept of planning things (elements) and areas (space) to perform the most services for us with the...
The Easy Way To Preserve Meat & Canning Meat Off Grid
Though there are many different methods of preparing meat for long-term storage, without a doubt, canning it is the easiest way to store large quantities...
How To Generate Energy In The Desert
When people think of deserts, they picture extremely dry terrains with intolerable heat in the day that is quickly changed to extremely cold temperatures at...
How To Make Hens Lay More Eggs In The Summer
Unless you live in the far Northern United States (and sometimes even then), summer can be absolutely sweltering. When temperatures soar to the high eighties...
Making Your Own Laundry Detergent: A Detailed Visual Guide
About a year ago, I posted a general description of how to make your own laundry detergent that proved quite popular. That article basically described in a...
How To Build A Walipini Greenhouse
We use cellars because they maintain a more constant temperature than structures that are built above-ground. We use greenhouses to extend the growing season because...
Revolutionary Wood Chips Gardening: No Tilling, No Fertilizer, Less Weeds and 90-95% Less Water ( Food On a Little Land Using Sustainable Organic Methods, While Keeping Costs And Labor At a Minimum)
You will discover how Paul is using Wood Chips and Manure to build the soil and feed the plants instead of using chemical fertilizers. First,...
The Greenhouse Of The Future – No Extra Heating Needed
The Greenhouse of the Future is an innovative and strategic design, built of recycled and natural materials, that interacts with the natural phenomena of the...