This free beekeeping course from Alison teaches hive setup, bee biology, disease, honey extraction, and seasonal management. Advanced, 1.5 to 3 hours.
This free homesteading course from Alison surveys growing, animals, energy, preservation, and handmade goods for self-sufficient living. 1.5 to 3 hours.
The idea that living greener means spending more is backwards. Most of the changes that shrink your footprint also shrink your bills, which is the whole reason they stick. Swapping one incandescent ...
Remember spring 2020, when the toilet paper aisle looked like a scene from a disaster movie? People stacked rolls to the ceiling while their neighbors went without. Here is the part nobody mentioned ...
Sanitation planning for water outages, beginner gardening and seed-saving, backyard chickens from coop to laying, hand tool selection and maintenance, and reviewed reference libraries. We cite university extension programs for growing and food-safety questions, and we’re honest about how long each skill takes to become useful.
• Six to twelve months. Roughly how long household bleach stays effective, which makes it a rotation item rather than a stockpile item.
• Two weeks of sanitation supplies. The same planning horizon as water, and far more often overlooked.
• Four to six chickens. A sensible starting flock for a family, producing more eggs than most households expect.
• One growing season. The realistic time to learn whether gardening will produce meaningful food for you — start before you need it to.
Solve sanitation this week: a bucket toilet setup, liners, absorbent material, soap, and sanitizer. Then pick one skill and do it for a season a small raised bed, a few hens, or learning to sharpen and maintain your own tools.
Build a small paper reference shelf covering food preservation, gardening, first aid, and home repair. Books don’t need power, signal, or a subscription. Current prices are on our homesteading deals page.
