Survival Foods: Plants – cattail, conifers, grasses and acorns
Ever wondered what kinds of survival foods you could eat if you were caught in a survival situation? When I first came to Washington state...
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Tick Bites – Symptoms and Treatments
Ticks need blood meals in completing their complex life cycle and humans are often the victim of tick bites. There are about 800 species of...
Poisonous Spiders – How to Identify Them
Poisonous Spiders: The Black Widow <img alt=”black-widow-small” src=”http://natureskills.wildernessawaren.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/black-widow-small-300×200.jpg” width=”300″ height=”200″ /> When considering poisonous spiders and spider identification, the first one that comes to mind is...
How to Build a Coracle
Once humans developed a need to travel on water in order to fish, trade and explore, cultures worldwide created lightweight boats consisting of the skin...
Make Your Own Pantry-Fridge Basics
Has it ever occurred to you that instead of habitually buying pantry/fridge ‘basic’ items at the grocery store – things like ketchup, mayonnaise, chicken/beef broth,...
Cooking After The Collapse
How will I cook without electricity or gas if it ever comes to that? Here’s one way… Solar Oven Cooking Solar energy can be very...
Rookie Preppers: 8 Mistakes To Avoid
As some of you know, I’ve been prepping for a little over 3 years now. Believe me when I say that I have probably made...
Homemade Probiotic Salsa Verde Recipe
I love a good salsa verde sauce, especially over enchiladas. In my quest to eliminate commercial bought products and make my own healthier foods, I...
Home Grind – The Art Of Making Your Own Flour
Another quite small and frugal tool that can provide health benefits far beyond the modest monetary savings that can be had, is the grain mill....
Turn your empty beer bottles into reusable glassware using string and lighter fluid
Obviously, your beer bottle glass will have previously contained better beer than this. Business Insider may think that canned beer is better than glass-bottled beer. And...
Supersizing Food Storage with BUCKETS
I was asked to give a class one time on storing food in buckets and I definitely could relate to Brian Regan with his cup...
This Week’s Harvest: Peaches
Nothing says summer like taking nibble from a peach, still warm from the sun, that is so juicy it runs down your chin when you...
The Art of Dehydrating Foods
It takes some work, depending on the amount of food you are looking to preserve by dehydrating, but the pay-off is definitely worth it. A...
What the study forgot to mention: Organic food can save the world from devastating climate change
In the wake of the release of the infamous “Stanford study,” which claims there is no substantial difference between organic food and conventional food, many ...
DIY: Solar Powered Food Dehydrator
Harnessing the sun’s energy is not as difficult as one may think. Solar power is a huge untapped energy source that can be used to...