
Food
How to be self-sufficient eating, cooking, and living off the grid.

Commodities forecast – food, oil, farmland prices to slump
Commodities Trader Peter Brandt sees lower oil prices; bubble in grains, farmland Brandt is a technical trader, poring over charts and patterns to spot potentia...

From farm to plate
London, Ontario……For two hours every Thursday afternoon, Julie Richards-Bramhill is a conduit connecting a lone vegetable farmer with hundreds of...

Cooking under pressure
I often forget how good a pot of pintos can be. This last Sunday, I had to come up with a dish to take to church for our first Sunday after church dinner. I kne...

EPA $1m to Colleges for off-grid research
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded more than $1 million in grants to 15 university and college teams for innovative off-g...

Five tips for preppers
From food to money to to water sources – things to consider when preparing for the worst...

Early Spring Garden
It is rare for us to be able to plant our garden before April 15 but, in rather shocking fashion, spring weather is upon us here in Canada nearly a month ahead ...

Seed catalogs
It’s the middle of winter, cold, dreary, but something I start receiving in my mailbox makes me long for the warm days of spring, the seed catalogs. Those...

Supermarket Survival
Worldwide food shortages and higher gas prices continue to drive food prices up, up, up. And yet there are still massive savings to be had that most people aren...

Homesteading-book review
Homesteading, it’s a buzzword that means different things to different people, back in the day, it meant getting land for free as long as you lived on it ...

Going fridgless
Going fridgless, to most people would be paramount to going topless, many people couldn’t imagine living their lives without having a 19+/- cubic foot ene...

No knead bread
I love making and baking bread, who doesn’t enjoy eating fresh, homemade bread hot from the oven? The problem is the time it takes to make, the mixing, th...

DIY rocket stove
I like rocket stoves, these are usually small, usually portable, mini-cooking-heating devices that are very efficient. You can use twigs instead of larger piece...

