When you think about living green and sustainable harvesting, there is often one resource that is overlooked. In fact, unless you live in an arid desert, it’s also something you may take for granted. Water is one of our most plentiful resources, and one that is hotly debated by environmental groups … [Read more...]
Is There a Right Time to Start Homesteading?
A question we've asked ourselves several times over is "When is it the right time to start homesteading?" The answer to that question will be as different as the people who ask it. Everyone has their own circumstances and challenges that need to be overcome. It can be very hard to break out of the … [Read more...]
7 Primitive Tools to Increase Skills and Survivability
It seems that every person, at some point in their life, wants to go 'back to basics.' To something more simple, more rugged. While most people don't necessarily want to go back to being a nomadic hunter/gatherer, there is something to be said about the ability to make what you need to … [Read more...]
Pioneering Skills that Modern Folks Need
If all of the modern appliances were taken away from you, could you survive? Would you be able to cook food, wash and dry clothes, and haul water? Many people have limited knowledge and even less experience with how to live like this but for many of our great grandparents grew up exactly the way … [Read more...]
Fighting the Biggest Food Storage Enemies
Since the beginning of time, humanity has been learning about how to preserve food to last through the winters and hard times. Starting with simple drying or smoking, we worked our way up to freezing, canning, and vacuum sealing. All of these methods have one thing in common: they remove the … [Read more...]
Making Sauerkraut in a Mason Jar
I really don't do much in the way of fermenting, other than pickled food, as a food preservation method. Kombucha, kraut...we don't really eat any of it so there was never a need to learn how to do these things. Recently though, an opportunity came along that pushed me into making my first batch of … [Read more...]
The Story of Freedom Point: Gardening
Living remotely and off grid brings with it numerous challenges that one needs to overcome. Doing so sometimes requires simply adapting to the new circumstances until you are in a better position to overcome but no matter which way you go, relying on yourself and your own skills is a cornerstone to … [Read more...]