food storage
Root Cellar Alternatives for Storing Winter Harvests
Explore root cellar alternatives for your home and learn how to store winter vegetables to maximize your harvest.
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Treating and Diagnosing Illnesses Afield
Stomach upset can put crimp in your camping fun. Learn the common causes of illness while afield and how to prevent them.
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The Underutilized American Acorn
For those with an eye to see, the acorn is very likely the most underutilized food source in the United States.
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How to Make a DIY Barrel Smoker
Barbecue competitors know all about building a DIY barrel smoker. Smokers can be built from many different humble beginnings.
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How a British Family Constructed Their Own Root Cellar
In Buckinghamshire, England, Ali Freeman and her family, farm an impressive eight acre smallholding with a menagerie of animals and abundant vegetable plots. I went to meet them last August and was very impressed by the root cellar, which they’d built themselves.
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How Zombie Culture Shaped Homesteading Today
We can thank apocalyptic fiction and zombie mania for a giant surge in self-reliance and homesteading today. It’s amazing how people grow when they question, “What if?”
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A Guide to the Best Survival Foods
Emergency survival and preparation is a hot topic right now. You’ll find many articles online regarding what foods should be on your survival items list.
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What Should be in an EDC Bag?
Every Day Carry or EDC bags are about prepping on the smallest scale. You’re more likely to use what’s inside this kit than your food storage or bug out bags.
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Justifying Extreme Survival Supply Lists and Toilet Paper
I watched a preppers show where a man used methane from his own poop to cook his food. It made me reconsider my own survival supply list.
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Tips for Tiny Living on Your Land
Add to Favorites By Molli McGee of the Tiny House Society — Have you heard about tiny living? Tiny living refers to living in a tiny house typically no more …
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Gift Guide for Those Favoring Self-Sustaining Living
Standard holiday gifts and baubles don’t work for homesteaders and a self-sustaining living.
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Water: The Most Important Emergency Essential
Add to Favorites By Lauren Clark – When people discuss emergency essentials and preparedness, many think of food storage first. Water is usually an afterthought, if a thought at all. However, water …
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A Guide to Using Steam Canners
Steam canners have been around since at least the early 1900s, but for many years the USDA maintained that steam canning is unsafe.
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Choosing and Using Canning Lids
Lids for home canning come in one of two diameters, depending on whether they fit narrow-mouth jars or wide-mouth jars.
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How Does Freeze Drying Work?
Add to Favorites Freeze-drying has been around more than 100 years. But how does freeze drying work? And why is it better than simply dehydrating? People have developed many food …
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