Love the taste of pickled veggies, but don’t have all the necessary tools or a lot of vegetables to preserve? Try this yummy summer salad you can make and store in your refrigerator for up to 2 months, if it lasts that long! We took one 1/2 gallon jar to a...
Reader's Digest "Back to Basics" Raising livestock is an every day affair. It may only take a few minutes a day, but you can never skip a day. Cleanliness is the single biggest contributor to livestock health. Feeding and shelter requirements vary from one animal type...
Selco During the recent Prepper World Summit 4, speaker Selco discussed what he needed to do to survive the 1990’s year long Yugoslavian conflict in a city that was surrounded by an enemy army. The former Soviet controlled country was composed of several ethnic...
“Back to Basics” Reader’s Digest Nearly any garden fruit or vegetable can yield juice to make tasty drinks. Grains, flowers, roots and bark can also add flavoring. Want a little fizz? Add bicarbonate of soda with tartaric acid, carbonated water or use water kefir...
Botanical Name: Gingiber officinale Common Name: Ginger root Family: Zingiberacae Ayurvedic/TCM Name: shringara/vishwabhesaj Parts Used: rhizome Native Region: Asia Geographic Distribution: India, West Indies, Jamaica, Africa, Florida & US, Spain Botanical...
Glen Meder Glen Meder, pure water specialist extraordinaire, gave a presentation during the 2017 Home Grown Food Summit on drinking water purity. Here are notes I took from his presentation. Pure drinking water protects your family from water contamination. We live...
When we visit second-hand stores, one of our favorite places to search is the old books section. Recently we found a 1981 Reader’s Digest book, “Back to Basics.” There were directions on building cabins, digging a well, installing a wood-burning stove, building...
Prepare - Protect - Survive Join 24 of the World’s Leading Prepping and Survival Experts as they reveal their best strategies to prepare for any threat! Consider this: your worst fears have come true, disaster is here and there’s nothing you can do to protect your...
Botanical name: Salvia officinalis Common name: Sage Family: Labiatae Parts used: Leaves, whole herb in culinary and medicinal recipes Native Region: its natural habitat being the northern shores of the Mediterranean. Sage is found in its natural wild condition from...
There are over four thousand species of aphids known to exist. Around 250 species are considered harmful to garden crops. They are among the most prominent and successful garden pest worldwide. These insects pierce the tender new growth of plant stems in order to suck...
