Food preservation methods go way beyond the modern techniques we use today. Older techniques like salting, fermenting, and dehydrating have their place, even in modern kitchens. Learn about all the different ways you can extend
Food preservation methods go way beyond the modern techniques we use today. Older techniques like salting, fermenting, and dehydrating have their place, even in modern kitchens. Learn about all the different ways you can extend
The summer solstice is a perfect time for harvesting and preserving herbs! Here's the complete guide to preserving the culinary and medicinal bounty of the herb garden. (This post was contributed by Melissa Keyser.) If I
There are several different methods for food preservation and we are going to cover what mechanisms are at play for nine of these methods.
The practice of infusing herbs in oil dates back thousands of years to ancient civilizations around the world, & to this day, especially for gardeners.
The summer solstice is a perfect time for harvesting and preserving herbs! Here's the complete guide to preserving the culinary and medicinal bounty of the herb garden. (This post was contributed by Melissa Keyser.) If I
Curing your own meat is not only delicious and rewarding, but a great SHTF skill and just a super cool lost art that it ready for a revival!
Food preservation methods go way beyond the modern techniques we use today. Older techniques like salting, fermenting, and dehydrating have their place, even in modern kitchens. Learn about all the different ways you can extend
Food preservation methods go way beyond the modern techniques we use today. Older techniques like salting, fermenting, and dehydrating have their place, even in modern kitchens. Learn about all the different ways you can extend
Whether you’re an experienced prepper, new prepper, or not even into prepping, you’ve probably heard that some people dehydrate foods. Maybe you know why it’s important to know which foods you can dehydrate and you’ve finally decided to give it a try. But in case you aren’t aware of all the great reasons to dehydrate ... Read more
These 10 Old-Fashioned Money-Saving Skills will help you to live more frugally and be more self-sufficient all while learning to appreciate a simpler life!
It is very difficult to make activated charcoal, but if you're patient and respect the process, it can be done.
Drying fish is one of the oldest ways of preserving meat. Learn how to make your own dried fish using a variety of different methods.
This recipe for pine bark bread comes from Sweden and uses the outer bark of a pine tree ground into a fine flour. The resulting bread is more like what most people would consider crackers.
Citrus fruits are a great natural pectin source for home canning, and many "no added pectin" recipes actually add natural citrus pectin in the form of lemon juice. While citrus juice has a good bit
Canning meals in a jar is a great way to have delicious homemade prepared food ready to heat and eat, all right from your pantry shelf. It's one thing to use canning to put up
Foods that are converted into powder are easy to store, transport, and use as ingredients in meals. Plus, they still have all the nutrients.
There are many ways to store meat without a refrigerator. Smoking, curing, brining, canning, dehydrating, freeze-drying, and more.
Master the art of cooking without cookware. Experience the freedom of using nature's tools and your creativity to prepare delicious meals.
Common canning mistakes need to be fixed before you or someone else gets sick! I see a lot of these canning mistakes repeated over and over!
Awaken the joy of creating useful things from nature’s resources with The Art of Bushcraft.Many have forgotten how to use the resources of nature to produce the things we need in our daily lives. The Art of Bushcraft introduces this forgotten skill to both beginners and more experienced bushcrafters, with more than fif
Vintage skills have a place in our modern life. These skills are not just about homemaking skills, they can save you money and time. Some of these skills are sewing, cooking from scratch, natural remedies, home repairs, and preserving food.
Acorns are an abundant wild food source around the world, and a single tree can produce more than 2,000 pounds of nuts. Rich in calories and micronutrients, eating acorns was once a part of life
How did primitive potters harvest clay? People have been making pottery for millennia, and convenient hobby shops have only been a thing for a few decades at best. Before that, people harvested their own clay
How to Process Acorns and Make Acorn Flour: In this instructable I will show you how to process acorns and make acorn flour. You will learn how to prepare acorns to eat. Acorns are a very abundant food source but it seems few people know that they can be eaten. I have talked to several people…
These 11 ways to be more self sufficient are very important! Are you prepared for a natural disaster? If the power goes out for days and...
Basil is a fabulous summer time herb grown in the garden. Learn how to dry basil, and make use of this wonderful herb all year round.
Fishing is one of the easiest and efficient ways to get food when you’re in a survival situation. This means that having a way to preserve fish in the wild…
Flour made from wild plants existed long before agriculture, and many of them have a lot more flavor and nutrition than storebought flour. While leavened bread is a product of modern agriculture and civilization, flour
Sustainable foraging should always be at the forefront of your mind when you go out to harvest wild plants. Learning to forage ethically and sustainably is one of the first things any forager or wildcrafter
Family food security is attainable, but you have to be intentional. Learn how to have sustainable food security in this step by step guide.
Beef tallow is fat that's cooked down from rump roast, ribs, steaks, or any other cut of meat of the
Drying and preserving herbs guide for retaining all the flavors. Drying and preserving herbs is a time-honored practice that allows you to enjoy the flavors
Learn about what to forage in fall! Autumn is an abundant time for foraging and wildcrafting. Fall foraging includes berries, nuts, roots, and mushrooms.
These survival recipes are nutritious, easy to make, and have a long shelf life. Hardtack, pemmican, jerky, biltong, bannock, and more.
If you could only grow one food as part of your emergency preps, which one would it be? If you ask me, it would most assuredly be this.
Learn how to grow sugar beets & make your own sugar at home- avoid processed & refined chemicals and have an endless supply of fresh sugar
Dandelion greens have made their way into the supermarket, but what about the roots? Dandelion roots are both nutritious and edible. They can be foraged in the early spring before the plants send up flower
Canning meals in a jar is a great way to have delicious homemade prepared food ready to heat and eat, all right from your pantry shelf. It's one thing to use canning to put up
Tips and instructions on how to find, harvest pine nuts, specifially the American pinon nuts Pinus edulis or Pinus monophylla.
There are many ways to store meat without a refrigerator. Smoking, curing, brining, canning, dehydrating, freeze-drying, and more.
Self-reliant living starts with re-skilling, and unless you have a mentor handy, there's no better way than hitting the books. These are my favorite books for self reliant living, and they're taught me more than
Flour made from wild plants existed long before agriculture, and many of them have a lot more flavor and nutrition than storebought flour. While leavened bread is a product of modern agriculture and civilization, flour
Whether you are gluten intolerant, or you simply cannot grow wheat where you are, there are several plant that you can grow and turn in to flour. Home grown
Want to learn about wilderness survival food? Start by looking at this hierarchy of survival foods you can find in the wild based on level of difficulty.
Here are some thoughts about possible food shortages coming up. Every time I go on YouTube, I see someone talking about it, and City Prepper, who is well-researched, seems to believe that terrible food shortages and supply chain issues are coming. Normally, I don't listen to all the fear-based tal
