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Above Ground Root Cellars – Enjoy Your Local Produce Longer
Over the years I’ve received many inquires about what above ground root cellar type options might be available for people in cold and warm climates. For those in warm climates – sorry, the physics are...
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Fuel-less Portable Solar Generator by Humless and a One Month Supply Kit...
I’ve teamed up with sixteen other preparedness/self-reliance bloggers and SurvivalBased.com to offer you this awesome giveaway worth over $3700 as a way to say thank you for your support! This...
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How to Harvest, Cure and Store Onions – Root Cellaring, Braiding, Dehydrating...
You can enjoy home grown onions for months after the growing season has finished with just a little extra time and effort. In this post we’ll cover onion harvest, curing onions, and several different...
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What’s Your Threat: Rising Food Prices
It’s hard to step foot into a grocery store and not notice the rising food prices. Packages are getting smaller, too, as I’m sure you’ve noticed if you use any older recipes that include any sort of...
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Getting Started with Home Food Drying
Want an easy way to store and preserve food? Need a food storage method that doesn’t take up much space and requires very little equipment? Want to make healthier snacks for your family to enjoy at...
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Preserving the Bounty
The boys and I have been busy preserving the bounty on our homestead, so I thought it was a great time to team up with some of my favorite self-reliance blogging friends for another food preservation...
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The 5 Easiest Vegetables to Store and the Awesome Root Cellar Makeover
Our recent blast of cold, wet weather has been replaced by wonderful warm, sunny days this week, which is a real blessing. The heat loving crops did not like the “Summer That Never Was”. Production...
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Pickled Dilly Beans with Garlic and Cayenne Pepper
Our green bean season is all but finished here in northeast Wisconsin, but a friend of mine down in Texas mentioned that she just planted her fall crop of beans and it is coming along nicely. So, for...
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5 Uses for Honey Everyone Should Know
I’m lucky enough to be able to purchase raw honey in bulk from a local apiary, so we always have it stocked. The many uses of honey make it one of my first “go to” home remedies, and a delicious...
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5 Uses for a Vacuum Sealer Everyone Should Know, Plus a Review and Giveaway
I’ve owned a Foodsaver® Vacuum Sealer of one type or another for a couple of decades now, and I can’t imagine my kitchen and pantry without a vacuum sealer. Okay – that’s not really true. I can...
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How to Can Green Beans
How to Can Green Beans Canned green beans are one of the boys’ favorite veggies, so I try to process about thirty quarts each season. Our last round of “green” beans actually started out mostly as...
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Almond Pears
I discovered these almond pears with almond liquor many years ago in the Ball Blue Book. I used to make them up as a special treat for my husband’s great uncle, Bill. Bill wasn’t a big fan of fruits...
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How to Make Pear Candy
This post was inspired by my friend, Julie, who commented as we were sampling the pears from the dehydrator, “These taste like candy!” Because of their natural sweetness, dehydrated pears make an easy...
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Prepping Food Storage – Top 10 Foods to Stockpile
Prepping Food Storage – Beyond Freeze Dried Meals More than one group of experts are talking about increased risk of soaring food prices and economic instability. With recent droughts and other...
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How to Can Food at Home – 8 Steps for Safe Canning
Home canning allows you to preserve almost any food – even entire meals. Once your jars are sealed, all you need is a cool, dark space to stash your bounty. No electricity is required for storage...
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How to Homestead – (Not Quite) Like Grandma Used to Do
There’s a growing interest in how to homestead and become more self-reliant. While the days of earning free land by farming it for a period of years is long gone, there are still many ways that most...
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25+ Asparagus Recipes Plus 4 Ways to Store Asparagus
Spring asparagus is a wonderful blessing after a long winter. Those first tender stalks are absolutely delicious raw, straight out of the garden. If you have large home patch – or want to take...
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5 Best Freeze Dried Foods – Quality Long Term Food Storage
With extreme weather – heat, fires and floods – hitting much of the country and civil turmoil keeping semi trucks from making their deliveries, there’s never been a better time to build up your food...
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Homemade Pickle Relish Sweetened with Honey
Homemade pickle relish wasn’t super high on my food preservation list, but I’m glad I decided to make some since the homemade version tastes awesome! Even my husband, who is not a relish guy, likes...
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5 Ways to Preserve Peaches, Plus the Easiest Way to Peel Peaches
My youngest loves peaches, so we make sure to preserve peaches for year round use. We always get a case or two of peaches for a local fundraiser. We’re still working on trying to get peach trees to...
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