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Remember to Work on These Important Fall Garden Tasks
One of the reasons that people have difficulty with getting their gardens up and running in the spring is because they forgot to take some important steps to prepare it during the fall. Properly tending to gardens following a harvest can help it to rest, absorb nutrients and make the soil easier to work with …
Home Remedies for Treating Urinary Tract Infections
Urinary tract infections can range from minor annoyances to potentially-serious medical conditions, and they can also crop up with little or no warning. While most infections can be easy to treat if they’re caught early enough, it may be a challenge to get prompt medical attention during a survival situation. Fortunately, there are a few …
How to Make and Store Delicious Lemon-Based Fruit Drink Concentrates
A great way to incorporate the flavor and nutrition of some of our favorite fruits into a long-term stockpile is to turn them into a concentrate. While juices don’t have the same level of nutritional potency when compared to whole fruits, they can still provide us with an excellent supplement. Not only that, but having …
How to Make a Safe and Gentle Soap from Goat Milk and Honey
You have plenty of options to choose from if you want to make your own soap, and most of them are healthier alternatives to what you can find in stores. Many recipes involve using things like coconut milk, shea butter and a variety of essential oils to produce a gentle and effective soap that can …
The Importance of Curing Potatoes for Wintertime Storage
The Importance of Curing Potatoes for Wintertime Storage Potatoes are resilient by nature, and they can keep for months as long as they are stored under the right conditions. However, it’s necessary to cure them beforehand in order to make sure that they are in optimal condition to hold up during the long winter ahead. …
How To Signal For Help
Anyone who likes to get away from the city and go out into the wilderness is taking their lives into their own hands, each and every time they do so. While it may seem that you are going for a short hike in the woods, you never know what could happen during that hike. For …
DIY Waterproof Survival FIRE Kit for Bug Out Bags
Check out this NEW Waterproof, Survival Fire Kit – EDC – YOU Can Build and Take with You Anywhere! This Fire Kit has 3 Sources of Ignition and Tinder to keep you alive. Great for camping, hunting, survival, emergencies, bug out bags, get home bags and for including in other emergency or survival kits. Check it …
Choosing Appropriate Footwear for Wilderness Travel
It is incredibly important to choose footwear that will fit the conditions that you expect to encounter. Some shoes and boots are ideal for walking along trails while others are designed to be used in rougher terrain. Let’s take a quick look at some characteristics of popular footwear options in order to help you to maximize …
How to Make Chimney-Jet Alcohol Stove
Chimney stoves work by creating an updraft through the stove that feeds the flame with oxygen and by having the flame start inside the stove which causes it to really heat up and vaporize more fuel. The simplest versions are singled walled while others are doubled walled. The heat output can be adjusted by …
Primitive Fishing Tool – The Gorge Hook
The Gorge Hook is a highly effective and simple to make primitive fishing tool… In this episode I demonstrate how to make, bait, and use the gorge hook in an actual fishing situation. This tool is among the simplest of the primitive fishing hooks. It is in essence a straight bodied device tapering down to points on each …
