Want Healthier Chickens? Try Feeding them These Herbs One of the biggest things that we can do for homestead chickens is to give them healthy food. Even if you are letting them forage on insects, in your garden, or around your back yard, it’s important to supplement and round out their diets. Remember, whatever the …
How to Make a Delicious Batch of Black Walnut Liqueur We’re not here to promote moonshining or the illegal manufacture of alcohol. However, if you are lucky to be in an area where you have access to fresh walnuts, then you can convert that into a tasty liqueur in a few easy steps. Whether you …
How to Dry or Cure Fish With Sea Brine Imagine that you have the opportunity to set up camp somewhere and store a good amount of fish. However, you don’t have access to material or resources to smoke or encase the fish in salt. You may be able to take advantage of a trick …
How to Make an Emergency Compass Out of Duct Tape You never know when you will need to make an emergency compass to orient yourself in a wilderness survival situation. This is why it’s so important to know about as many tricks as possible, so you can use them if and when they become applicable. …
How to Split Firewood With a Knife Not a lot of people have an axe with them as they are hiking or moving through the wilderness with their bug out bags. This usually comes on the heels of encountering one of the more unexpected challenges that tends to crop up out of nowhere: How to …
How to Make a Simple Forced Air Composting System Air is often considered the compost pile’s best friend. It provides oxygen to microorganisms that help to break down organic matter into nutrient-rich soil. It also helps to sustain little critters that also aid in the process, particularly worms. Traditionally, air gets introduced into compost piles …
How to Process Beeswax the Easy Way Not everyone is inclined or equipped to raise bees and harvest their own honey. However, learning how to process beeswax is something that we call benefit from knowing. The wax in its raw form is not suitable for use in one of a million different projects, and there …
How to Make a Simple and Effective Dog Washer Anyone who has tried to wash a dog who doesn’t like standing still knows how messy the process can be. Not only that, but a lot of water can get wasted even under the best of circumstances. Let’s take a look at a way that you …
How to Build a Self-Watering Tomato Planting System Tomatoes are one of those plants that can be grown almost anywhere and under different conditions, including planters. You can take this to a whole new level of convenience and flexibility by creating a planter that is also self-watering. Not only will this save you time and …
Top Poisonous and Venomous Fish to Avoid We often don’t think of fish as being toxic to humans, but there are a handful of species that can inflict serious pain or inject a fatal dose of venom. Fortunately, incidences of attacks by toxic fish are not as common as jellyfish stings, but they do happen. …
