Tag: Gardening

With the way the world looks today, there has never been a better time to plant a garden. If the SHTF, you will value every calorie you produce.

It's peak harvest time on the homestead, but our raised beds would never be enough to sustain us during an emergency.

The harvest continues and the work doesn't end. After a rainy weekend, we get outside to harvest honey, vegetables and do chores.

Have you ever checked the caloric content of vegetables? Many of them offer just a coupe hundred calories per pound. Give yourself survival options.

In our second year on the homestead, the progress we have made from last year is evident. We have not realized its full potential, but we are underway.

Raising some of your own food can help you add valuable calories to your diet and and save money, but you need to start now.

As the war in Ukraine lingers, the odds of a food crisis are growing. Are you prepared to feed your family when there is no food in the store?

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

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

Now that the beehives are set up, we need to get our fencing up before the bears sniff them out and come for a visit.