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How To Hook Up A Generator To Your Home The Correct Way — Winter is coming. Don't be without power during an outage. Check out how to hook up a generator to your house so all you need to do is click a switch and you're whole house will have power.

How to Hook up a Generator to Your Home the Correct Way

Learning how to correctly hook up a generator to your home should be a core component of your emergency preparedness plans. It is sad to …

These 5-gallon bucket mouse traps are cheap and easy to build, easy to use and easy to service. I know the regular mouse traps are cheap but this trap can also catch rats too.

How To Build A Self-Resetting Mouse Trap

When it all goes sideways, and the SHTF, pest control will be a significant challenge. A mouse can squeeze through an opening the diameter of …

This Little Weed is One of the Most Useful Medicines on the Planet - This weed is one of about 100 plants that clean and correct impure conditions of the blood and the eliminative tissues and organs.

This Little Weed is One of the Most Useful Medicines on the Planet

Do you know that you are surrounded by wild medicines? There are little weeds all around us that can both feed us and heal us. …

5 Weird Homesteading Hacks That Will Make Your Life Easier!

7 Things Rabbits Absolutely Hate (So Put These In Your Garden!) - This article is full of great ideas about how to deter these rabbits from coming into your yard. There are some great ideas in here

7+ Things Rabbits Absolutely Hate (So Put These In Your Garden!)

Survival is all relative. The threats in survival are as well. If you are hurting for food and the only source is the garden, rabbits …

Worm Farming with John Moody - One of the most important parts of worm farming is to get those great worm castings that are like garden steroids. They are gold for your soil. Of course, you have to have a method to separate out the castings from the rest of your worms and their living environment.

Worm Farming with John Moody

It is rare that I post a podcast but this is such a great look at a powerful practice. There are so many benefits for …

How to Get Free Solar Panels for Your Home

We’ll let you in on a secret. Did you know that you could possibly get free solar panels for your home? What’s in it for …

How To Can BUTTER For Food Storage - Butter isn’t getting any cheaper so if you find a good deal at the supermarket buy it up and can it for use later down the line.

How To Can BUTTER For Food Storage

I have been reading a lot of canning articles and looking at a lot of canning websites as I want to start canning my vegetables …

How To Can Yummy Beef Stew - Beef stew is packed with protein and carbohydrates that will fuel your body in times of joy and times of SHTF. This is a great recipe and set of instructions that show you how to make this meal in a jar.

How To Can Yummy Beef Stew

Beef stew is just one yummy meal to have on hand any time of the year! Its packed with protein and carbohydrates that will fuel …

Home Remedies / Pain Relief For Sore Throats & Tonsillitis - In a SHTF situation there will be no doctors quickly available so these home remedies may help. Please note that I am not a doctor; you should always check with your health professional and read my disclaimer.

Home Remedies / Pain Relief For Sore Throats & Tonsillitis

Most cases of tonsillitis are caused by a virus, but they can also be caused by a bacterial infection. Tonsillitis caused by the streptococci bacteria …

How to Build a 12×20 Cabin on a Budget - Are you struggling financially? Do you have land but no money for a bug out cabin? If you can save $2k you could have this 12 x 16 cabin. Plenty of room for living, work and play. :)

How to Build a 12×20 Cabin on a Budget

Are you struggling financially? Do you have land but no money for a bug out cabin? If you can save 2k you could have this …