Category: Tutorials

MIY Rum

MIY Rum We have posted a number of times about the uses for our own distilled spirits in a SHTF scenario. Most of the recipes we share with you can be deemed illegal in some areas as is stated at the very beginning of the featured article. I feel it does indeed reduce the value …

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DIY Wood Stove Water Heater Attachment

DIY Wood Stove Water Heater Attachment This is not a project I would recommend for a beginner do it yourselfer. It is also one I wouldn’t scrimp on parts for either as the results of poor-quality metals etc… could lead to a real dangerous scenario or a real mess in your home. However, if you …

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Grow Your Own Apple Trees From Seed

Grow Your Own Apple Trees From Seed

Grow Your Own Apple Trees From Seed Some of you may know that this past year I had a couple of serious Health issues It really killed my gardening for this last year. My kids are not great gardeners although they do know the basics and my health just wasn’t up to the job this year. …

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MIY Dehydrated Broth

MIY Dehydrated Broth This is just an awesome tutorial! No bottled, canned, or pre-dehydrated store-bought broth is as good as homemade. I always have frozen any leftover homemade broth I have and am always sad to see the last of it used. Then until I get a chance to make another batch, I use the dehydrated …

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Free Crochet Slipper Boots Patterns

 Free Crochet Slipper Boots Patterns My grandmother used to make each of her grandchildren a pair of slipper boots very much like thee, every year as part of our holiday celebration. After her passing the tradition was gone. None of the adults at the time knew how to make them. I myself was only 12. …

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Easy Off-Grid Projects

Easy Off-Grid Projects  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am of an age that as much as I would like to do it all myself and get off-grid, I can’t do it alone and all at once! Perhaps you are in the mist of raising a young family, caring for a …

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Turn Salt Water to Drinking Water

Turn Salt Water to Drinking Water If you live near a body of salt water this could be an important process for you to learn! Drinkable water is one of the first necessities that we humans must find in a crisis scenario. The human body must have water within three days to survive, sooner to …

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Building A Wattle Shelter W/O Tools

Building A Wattle Shelter W/O Tools When I think of a shelter built in the woods without the use of tools what comes to mind is not what you can watch this young man build in the video below! My first thought is a debris shelter with just enough room and protection from the elements …

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DIY Canned Bacon

DIY Canned Bacon I was thrilled when the first precooked bacon came out on grocery shelves. Bacon quick and easy? It doesn’t get better!! I tried to throw a few packages in the back of the pantry, but those things were just too easy, and my kids would have them gone before the end of …

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Planting Cherry Pits

Some posts may contain affiliate links.</pre Planting Cherry Pits I currently have an avocado pit soaking on the windowsill , a pineapple top growing on the bathroom counter and 2 and a half pounds of cherries in the fridge! I bet you can guess what I am going to do with some of the pits …

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