Rabbit A Great Meat Animal For Small Homesteads

Sorry Buggs… “Whether your homestead is in the city or the country, meat rabbits can help you feed your family with lean, nutritious meat. Rabbits breed and grow

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Gardening 101: Companion Planting

“Mother Nature is awfully ingenious; she has come up with quite a few methods to keep bugs away and plants healthy and thriving. It turns out that plants,

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How To Make Acorn Flour

Turning those bitter tasting nuts that are found all over the place during the fall into something that is not only palatable but rather good tasting is not

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How To Make Fishing Nets (Video)

Dale, from the British Bushcraft School, shows you everything you need to put together a fishing net – along with methodical step-by-step instructions on how to start, size

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How To Grow Your Own Cinnamon

“Cinnamon is well known for its culinary uses, yet it is hardly ever grown in ordinary home settings. It’s easy to grow, however. As long as the soil is

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Upside Down Fire Technique

“The upside down fire technique rocks. It’s a cleaner burn with far less smoke and better combustion, gives off more heat, needs less tending and uses the embodied

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Bottled Herb Infusions – 14 Bleach-Free Surface Disinfectants

“A mix of chlorine bleach and water is an effective household disinfectant (and it’s cheap too!), but the bleach is pretty harsh on fabrics, skin and the environment

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Building An Automatic Chicken Waterer

“Before we left on our recent road trip, we wanted to have a system in place to water the chickens so the neighbor who would be collecting the

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How To Make Black Walnut Ink

Here’s a photo tutorial that will show you how to make black walnut ink… find a black walnut tree (Juglans nigra). gather ye some nuts cover them with

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How To Grow & Harvest Wheat By Hand

“Although grain is still grown and harvested by hand in many parts of the world, in the United States this skill is practically lost. Having done just a

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Digging a Gypsy Well for Emergency Water

So, you’ve found yourself in a dire situation, stranded near a remote bog or other question water source with no clean water in sight. Fear not, for there

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DIY Wine Bottle Bird-Feeders

“I’m preparing a class for the Master Gardener chapter that I’m a member of on making bird-feeders utilizing natural sources, recycled materials and re-purposed items. Of course the

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How To Build A Radio / Drone Jammer

“Spark gap transmitters are the oldest type of radio transmitter made by man. They were first used around 1888 and remained legal until the 1920s when their use

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Primitive Survival Trap – The Feather Spear Trap

In this video I show you how to build a primitive survival trap. It is particularly effective against wild hogs. It is easy to build and it is reliable…

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Foraging – Finding Caloric Staples

“An Australian study tells us that modern day hunter gatherers get 64% of their energy from things that move, 36% from plants, basically two thirds flesh, one third

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5 Fishing Techniques For Survival…

Fish are a nearly perfect source of nutrition and in a long-term (or even a short-term) survival situation, they are not that difficult to obtain. First of all,

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Barn Owls For Rodent Control

“Barn Owls alone are not always a total solution to rodent control, but Barn Owls, used with trapping and preventative measures, can be very effective in keeping rodent populations in

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How To Make A Mason Bee Nest

“Where we live, crocuses and forsythia are the very first flowers to bloom as winter transitions to spring. That happens to be the best time to put up

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How To Make A Wood Fire Garbage Can Pizza Oven

“Last July Matt called me at the office, to ask me a very important question after spending much of the morning with Zack digging up our crab grass

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How To Make An Undershot Water Wheel

“This is a nicely done undershot water wheel project that blends in well with its setting. Much of the project was done with parts recycled from various sources. I utilize

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