Pros and Cons of Planting Survival Garden Crops in Containers

When it comes to your survival garden, one of the most common questions people ask is if it’s best to plant your heirloom seeds in the ground or in a container, as you would in a greenhouse. As with most things in

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30 Perennial Vegetables You Can Plant Once and Enjoy Forever

It’s about that time to start your survival garden for the spring and summer seasons. And wouldn’t it be nice to be able to plant a crop just one time and enjoy it season after season? Well, with these 30

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How To Create A Simple and Inexpensive Rain Water Collection System

Do you think it’s possible to water your entire garden with reclaimed rain water? Well, if you said yes, then you are 100% right. Assuming it rains at all where you live, a simple and inexpensive rain water collection system

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6 Tips To Eliminate Weeds From Your Survival Garden

It’s no secret that weeds are the enemy of gardeners around the globe! They are responsible for choking the life from vegetable and flower gardens, while stealing life-giving nutrients away from our plants. Weeds are also the reason many gardeners

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How To Make Stackable Fruit Crates From Old Pallets

Here’s an ingenious way to crate your picked fruit so your collection doesn’t bruise and go bad fast. Take some old pallets and re-purpose them into these stack-able fruit crates. This is a really cool DIY project and you show

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Survival Garden Seed Germination

Growing your own Survival Garden, similar to the World War II era ‘Victory Garden’, is not only a rewarding experience that builds a key survival skill, but it enables you to be less dependent upon today’s modern food systems, is

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How To Build A Hugelkultur Garden Bed

Hugelkultur (from the German, hill culture) is a method of building a garden bed.  It hails from the permaculture world and means building a bed either by piling up wood and branches on the surface of the soil or digging a

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Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Then Bans Them

Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to

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A Prepper’s & Homesteader’s Guide To Buying Seeds

Being that spring is only a few weeks away, it’s time to start thinking about your survival garden. And in the spirit of self sustaining and being frugal, growing vegetables from seed is a great option. Why? Seeds are a

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Inexpensive Easy To Construct DIY FIFO Can Rack

If you’re ready to get into canning for long term food storage, then make sure you read this article on how to build your own inexpensive and easy to construct FIFO (first in first out) can rack. The purpose of

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