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DIY Homesteading Project - PVC Pipe Chicken Coop
If you are looking for an inexpensive alternative to house your chickens, a PVC pipe chicken coop may be the solution.
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Producing and Selling Honey for the Backyard Beekeeper
Try your hand at successfully selling honey with advice about artisan honey production and sales...
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Bee Ready with Honey
Honey can be used in hundreds of recipes, can be used for different purposes and has an amazingly long shelf life. Below, we’ve listed just a few of the benefits of honey and explaining why you should have honey in your food storage!
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Raising Quail in Your Backyard!
Raising quail in your backyard can be both fun and profitable. I mainly do it because it is the highest form of farming my city allows on my small lot. It provides meat and eggs for my family and gives me a hobby...
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One Simple Piece of Advice for Raising Livestock
There’s a survivalists’ adage: If you haven’t done it yourself, it doesn’t work. That may apply more to raising livestock than any other endeavor I can think of...
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10 Uses for Salt You’ve Never Used
Salt is one of the most amazing elements in nature. It can be used for many purposes including food preservation, cleaning, cooking, and more!
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Grow Your Own Cooking Oil
You want to be more self sufficient? Well here's a way to grow your own cooking oil. Here's what you need...
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Build a vertical aquaponic veggie & fish farm for small yards & houses
This low-cost vertical aquaponic system can grow leafy greens, herbs and raise fish for a small family year round, and it fits in a 5' by 3' space...
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What Expired Coffee Tastes Like
am rotating my stock by using up this expired batch within the next few days and replacing it with a fresh box. Do I recommend making a habit of drinking expired coffee?
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Vitamin Supplements Guide
Vitamins are necessary for our general nutrition and good health. A prolonged lack of vitamins results in serious health problems...
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Rabbit Starvation … Fact or Fiction?
Bottom line, if you’re eating rabbits you raised yourself, or wild rabbits that aren’t starving themselves, you’ve got NOTHING to worry about from the ‘Rabbit Starvation’ problem...
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Beekeeping – The Many Benefits of Raising Bees
Bees play an essential role in pollination and fertilization of many crops and can be a great way to help your vegetables, flowers, fruits and other garden plants thrive. And then of course, there’s the added benefit of being able to extract your own honey and beeswax.
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Pet Food Alternatives for Long-Term Emergencies
Dogs and cats will have vital roles to play during a long-term emergency and we want them on their A-game!
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Homesteading Project - DIY Chicken Nesting Boxes Using Kitty Litter Buckets
RW, Jr. and Medicine Man spent some time yesterday finishing up their DIY nesting boxes for the main chicken coop. The raised nesting boxes will make it easier to harvest the eggs.
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Goats and Springtime on the Homestead
Spring on the homestead is my favorite time of the year. It is a busy season, but one with much purpose. Its time to begin planning your garden and the delicious vegetables that are going to be planted for your family...
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Do You Have What it Takes to Raise Backyard Chickens?
So let’s go back to assuming that you do at least want to have and raise chickens, whatever your reason may be (and the reasons can be many). There are a few more requirements that cannot be overlooked in this hobby, so let’s take a look at each one...
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Dehydrated vs. Freeze Dried Foods
We are sometimes asked, what is the best food for my survival storage, dehydrated or freeze dried? Let’s start with a basic understanding of what each process does to the food Dehydration simply means, the process of removing water from a substance or a compound. This is something you can do right in your own home with extra food from your garden.
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When Your Food Can’t Sustain You
Nowadays the food we get from the store is, shall we say, a bit deficient. It doesn’t contain all the nutrients and minerals that it used to. One of the big reasons for this is the fact that our soil is depleted of nutrients, which obviously prevents plants from converting nutrients to the building blocks of our body
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Can I Keep Chickens in My Backyard?
If you have made the decision that you would like to try your hand at keeping some chickens in your backyard, there are a few considerations that you might want to make first...
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Lightweight Cook Kit
Whole kit weighs less than 10 ounces and has some solid versatility. The alcohol stove will run off a variety of fuels and gets water boiling pretty quickly. The hardware cloth pot stand isn't a must have, but it's useful and enables me to cook over twigs, fuel tablets, and so on, in addition to the pop can stove.
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