Homesteading

Apparently 30 million working-age men are managing to survive without a paycheck. Here's how they do it and what you can learn from them.

I've never installed an electric fence before, and it showed. Sometimes watching YouTube can't replace trial and error.

We face our second hurricane in two weeks, prepare for cooler temperatures and ready our bees to get through the winter.

I enjoy watching YouTube videos, especially those I can learn from, but too often YouTubers make mistakes and give bad advice. Use discretion.

Adding a good-size dog to our prepper property has been a goal of mine since Day One.

After looking at Rottweilers and investigating a few other breeds, we have selected a large livestock guardian dog for our homestead companion.

We added two raised beds as we continue to build infrastructure to support a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Our first experience at raising chickens continues to go well. These ladies are about halfway to early adulthood and should be laying in a couple months.

I don't want to live on grains an greens alone. I am a omnivore unless given the opportunity to be a carnivore. But that's difficult to accommodate when prepping.

The Western U.S. is experiencing a record-setting drought. How can you survive if your water source dries up? What options are there?