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Grow and Raise Your Own Food Now So You Can Learn From Loss and Failure Now Rather Than Later

Grow and Raise Your Own Food Now So You Can Learn From Loss and Failure Now Rather Than Later

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Growing your own food is not easy. Raising your own food is not easy. Many people think they can just put some seeds in the ground and they will have food. Many more people are easily intimidated by raising animals for meat. However, they think they could do it if they had to when an SHTF happens. The fact is that the truth is very, very different. I have been gardening for many years. For a lot of those years,…

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Improving Soil with Chicken Litter

Improving Soil with Chicken Litter

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(In March, I wrote an article for the Rootsy Network where I am a guest contributor. I love what they are doing over there! If you are into homesteading, self-reliance, and do-it-yourself, you must check them out!) Most homesteaders struggle to find ways to dispose of all the waste that livestock can produce. One of the easiest ways to dispose of the waste is to add it to the garden. Gardening is fun, but gardening is a lot less fun…

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Nine Ways to Beat The Food Rationing System When It Happens Again

Nine Ways to Beat The Food Rationing System When It Happens Again

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Right now, food seems to be plentiful in America. There is plenty of it in the stores and you hear stories of how much food is wasted in restaurants and grocery stores. However, there are some factors that could lead us to a rationing system in a hurry if something happened. Those things do not even have to be catastrophic for us to be rationed. In most natural disasters such as hurricanes and flooding, Red Cross and FEMA dive right…

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Start Planning and Prepping Your Garden Now For A Successful Garden This Summer (And Years After!)

Start Planning and Prepping Your Garden Now For A Successful Garden This Summer (And Years After!)

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Gardening is a wondrous thing. You just go to the gardening center and buy whatever looks good. You put seeds in the ground and plant some plants. Voila! You have growing things and eventually, some produce to eat. Gardening just seems that easy, doesn’t it? Reality check! You spent all that money on seeds and plants. You watered. But your garden isn’t growing very well. Some of your plants have died. Whole rows of seeds didn’t come up. Rabbits ate…

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Sunday Thoughts – October 29

Sunday Thoughts – October 29

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Happy Sunday everyone!To start, I apologize for missing last week. While I realize this weekly post is not everyone’s cup of tea, it serves as a place for me to get my thoughts straight. It also helps me keep track of what I have done and not done. Let’s put more emphasis on what is not done because that is how I am feeling.Actually, let’s back up a little more. I struggle to stay focused on the best of days….

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Preserving The Bounty: How To Freeze Sweet Corn

Preserving The Bounty: How To Freeze Sweet Corn

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One of my favorite ways to deal with my garden bounty is to can it. I love canning! However, when I am putting up sweet corn, I like to freeze it. Freezing sweet corn is so easy. Let me walk you through it!How To Freeze Sweet Corn: 1.Pick and husk your sweet corn. Make sure you have as much of the silks cleaned up as possible.I tend towards picking and freezing mine in smaller batches because of my time constraints….

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