Month: January 2016

  It’s surprisingly easy and will keep you warm for months Whether you’re living in a homestead and your entire household is self-sustained, or you face a civilization

  Learn how to transfer your newly arrived bee colony to their new home With bee-keeping growing in popularity, it’s always a good idea to consider it yourself,

  Learn how to prepare before you order your first bees More and more organic gardeners and homesteaders consider adding bees to their homestead/gardens. With the bees disappearing

  Learn how to properly take care of your beehives so you keep the bees fed and warm After each year about 1/3 of all your bees will

  Our ancestors had a much harder time staying warm during those cold winters in the past, yet they made it. Here’s what they did. Today, we have all

  Use these tips to make your homestead more appealing to wild animals If you live in a homestead you may want (or hope) to see more wild

  Cattail is a wonderful survival food, apart from the fluffy parts which are used for starting a fire. The rest of the plant is perfectly edible Survival in the

  Have you been preparing for events that are less likely to happen, and neglected those with higher chance of occurring? The internet is full of survival and

  The answer is short – assign them farm chores As unfortunate as it is, today’s kids have little contact with nature. They don’t learn anything about how

  A wise step towards more and more independence Being a truely independent homesteader means everything is under your control. It means you’re responsible for your family’s and