Homesteading: Beginners

Tips and advice for beginning homesteaders. Homestead hacks, life hacks, survival hacks, and other tips and tricks that would be helpful to homesteaders starting out.
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Hardtack Recipe and Instructions
Hardtack is a survival food that can sit on the shelves for years. Check out these 5 steps to making your own hardtack. This hardtack recipe is simple and easy to make.
How to Make a Black Walnut Tincture
Explore the ancient wisdom of using black walnut tincture as medicine. Learn how to make it and use it to treat health problems like infections, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, sore throat, cold sores, and more. Here you'll find a step-by-step recipe for making a black walnut tincture.
How To Build A Fire In The Rain
Building and sustaining a fire is one of the most valuable survival skills, but it can be challenging, especially if you can't find any dry tinder or kindling. Here's how build a fire in the rain.
60+ PVC Pipe Projects
Discover the endless possibilities of PVC pipe projects. From home improvements to prepper tools, unleash your creativity with PVC.
Survive The Next Disaster With This FREE Survival Plan
The One Year Urban Survival Plan is a simple, step-by-step guide designed to help you build 3 months of food, water, and survival supplies—while also teaching you the survival skills you need to handle almost any emergency. Each month, you'll get checklists, practical tasks, and easy-to-follow instructions to make preparedness manageable and stress-free. By the end of the year, you'll have peace of mind knowing you’re ready to face disasters, power outages, economic uncertainty, and more.
How To Build A Fire In The Rain
Building and sustaining a fire is one of the most valuable survival skills, but it can be challenging, especially if you can't find any dry tinder or kindling. Here's how build a fire in the rain.
35 Best Survival Foods for Beginners
Instead of panic-buying, get a few extra foods every week, and slowly but surely build a stockpile of survival foods. In this article, we list the best survival foods you can find in a typical supermarket. Some of these foods aren't just for eating. Many of them are on the list because they have alternative uses, such as cleaning and deodorizing. If you haven't started gathering these survival foods, it's time to get started.
How to Survive a Winter Blackout
Winter is a terrible time for a power outage, but it happens to millions of people every year. In fact, freezing temperatures are one of the biggest causes of death. Here's how to prepare for and survive winter blackout.
How to Dry Can Food for Maximum Shelf Life
You can preserve low moisture foods like rice and dried beans with the dry canning method, where you use the heat of your oven to seal the jars. However, you need to do it the right way. Learn how to dry can food with these tips.
How to Make Hasty Pudding (Classic Pioneer Recipe)
Experience the taste of tradition with hasty pudding, a comforting porridge-like dessert that has been enjoyed for centuries. This recipe was made by the pioneers, and it still tastes great today.
25 Pioneer Skills That Will Make You Self-Sufficient
If the off-grid way of life is calling to you, you already have an adventurous spirit. However, to succeed as a self-sufficient homesteader, you also need to learn these basic pioneer skills. Our forefathers and foremothers did not consider this list to be anything other than ordinary, but knowing them will set you apart from the average American today. Here are 25 pioneer skills you need to know in order to be self-sufficient.
100 Recipes from 100 Years Ago
This collection of 100 recipes from 100 years ago offers a delightful journey into the past, featuring dishes that are very rare nowadays. You'll find recipes for things like bacon muffins, graham pop-overs, hot cross buns, peanut butter pancakes, lemon citron cake, Cornflake fancies, squash pudding, fish loaf, poorhouse soup, sour cream pie, breakfast apples, tomato fritters, and many other recipes few people make these days.
25 Frontier Recipes You're Going To Love
Just because frontiersmen didn’t have much doesn’t mean they ate poorly. Here are 25 frontier recipes you are going to love. These are recipes the pioneers made all the time, and they still taste great.
100 Things You Should Stop Buying and Start Making
Once you know how to make cleaning products and your favorite kitchen condiments, you’ll save yourself tons of trips to the store, reduce your carbon footprint with less waste, save heaps of money, and remove tons of chemicals from your day to day life. With more money in your pocket and less reliance on store-bought products, you are free to live the self-sustainable life you’ve always dreamed. So, let’s stop buying and start making with these easy tutorials, recipes, and how-to guides!
20 Winter Homestead Items To Stockpile
If you're going to live on a homestead this winter, especially one deep in the country, you need to do some prepping. Here are some items you should stockpile.