Self-Sufficiency

If This House Doesn’t Look Like Much To You, Wait Til You Go Inside. I Love Everything About This. After spending years in the rat race, with their lives revolv...

Today was the first full day on the new batteries, we had everything hooked up to them, including the new chest freezer to refrigerator conversion, about a mont...

A while back my current deep cycle batteries began to get weak, they would charge up quickly and not hold much of a charge, unfortunately the batteries are the ...

I grew up watching gardening shows on PBS, one of my favorites was the Victory Garden, and during pledge week, they would always have Howard Garrett and Jerry B...

It’s been a while since I have written about cooking, food and recipes, if you follow me any at all, you know that food is very important to me. Perhaps i...

Part 2 of our amazing series....

Thanks to Jessica Merritt for this comprehensive guide to surviving natural disasters. This is Part 1 -part 2 tomorrow. Natural disasters affect every area of A...

I grew up watching Texas Country Reporter, back in the day it was called 4 Country Reporter, that’s when there were only a few TV stations to choose from,...

With my latest brush with a pretty major upper respiratory infection (URI), I made the decision to work on my stash of meds and educate myself as much as possib...

I continually talk about being prepared, and I mean for as many things as possible, while it’s not possible to be ready 100% for every possible scenario, ...

I have been going through one of the things that is greatly feared by the off-grid and rural community, getting very sick, I’m not talking about a little ...

As more and more people look for easy and inexpensive ways to create their own housing, one good method people have discovered are shipping containers. These ar...