We're answering questions about our earthbag root cellar build as well as general off-grid questions.

A homestead is a place of production. Food, fiber, and fuel are just a few of the things a homestead can produce for a family. Most importantly, a homestead can produce a great quality of life for you, and those you care most about.

Meet John Austel of 4J Horse and Livestock a family operated cattle ranch in San Diego, California raising cattle on 100% grass from start to finish. He'll tell us all about how he raises his cows from calf to harvest, the amazing regenerative effect

Growing your own food gives you access to fresh fruits and vegetables – something that is invaluable post-SHTF. Knowing how to store seeds properly ensures that you're always ready for the next planting season. To the untrained eye, dry and brittle

Having fresh, homemade cultured butter in your refrigerator is like a luxury. But it's also SO EASY to make! In today's video, Carolyn is demonstrating three different ways to churn cream into homemade butter.

Meet Andrew of Indian Summer Farms, a one man show on his one acre farm. He comes from tractor tillage based organic farming but has transitioned to low till and no spray methods. We talk about that transition and how he manages his one acre with a B

An in-depth interview with Andrew of Indian Summer Farms. We discuss how he got into farming and his changing techniques over time and how he has adapted his farms to changes in his life.

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Providing clean drinking water in regions where the resource is scarce is a huge challenge, and one that we're seeing plenty of inventive solutions to.

Grant (Beech Grove Farm) is using animals and natural soil building techniques to create healthy soil to provide food for his community.

Gardening businesses have been booming during the coronavirus lockdowns, and nurseries have busily tried to keep up with the unexpected--and unprecedented--demand.

Fantastic swale system built on contour at 1% grade to soak and shed water. Learn all about how Grant of Beechgrove farm set it up and planted out a food forest.

Check out the two awesome mobile chicken coops over at Beechgrove Farm in Seymour Tennessee. One is for egg layers, that has rain water collection and a great egg collecting system. The other is for broilers and very inexpensive and simple to make. G

Even though bees had a 'very good year,' with the second smallest winter hive loss in 14 years, according to an annual survey released in March, agriculture experts continue to look for alternative pollination techniques. And, just in time for Na

What's it like to bring new farm babies into the world? Our author shares her experiences and tips on caring for baby goats, chicks, and goslings.

Learn how to make biochar and its many beneficial uses including greatly enhancing soil life and fertility. Discover innovative ways to maximize its uses for dynamically carbon negative farming and gardening.

Everyday I'm carrying heavy water buckets to the animals in pasture. Finally, I've put together a clever system that gets water out to pasture where it's convenient.

I'll explain WHY it doesn't stink and HOW I get free compost from it. See How I feed the Chickens from the Garden and the Garden from the Chickens.

Gordon Ramsay Hamburger recipe is an art, by using a special Gordon Ramsay burger blend of, brisket, chuck sirloin, and short rib ground beef and along with freshly grilled onion slices that add such an important component in building the perfect bur

The slowdown or even the shuttering of meat processing plants due to coronavirus outbreaks has led to meat shortages and soaring food inflation.

America's meat processing crisis, mainly triggered by labor shortages and plant closings due to coronavirus spread, is set to unleash a new wave of automation across plants to ease labor and health woes.

A thrifty food blogger has shared how to butter from scratch, as people struggle to get their hands on essentials after coronavirus panic buying left supermarket shelves bare.

...by concentrating sunlight into "hotspots" using lenses, they could boost the efficiency of solar-powered membrane distillation desalination systems by more than 50 percent.

HomeBioGas is a bacteria digester that transforms organic waste such as food scraps and manure into methane gas for cooking. It also produces liquid fertilizer as a byproduct. The device needs a warm climate for bacteria growth. -GEG

It's official: A gang of terminally online Bernie Sanders supporters has succeeded in making the hashtag "#EatTheRich" the most popular political hashtag in the US as part of a campaign to mock Michael Bloomberg's decision to 'buy the presidency' by

GM seeds and GM food carry great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably imperative these foods be banned outright. This subject is too large to be discussed here, but one aspect requires brief notice.

According to agricultural machinery manufacturer Kubota, there are now fewer farmers in Japan, trying to manage increasingly large amounts of land. With that problem in mind, the company recently unveiled a concept for helping those farmers out – a

A study released Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group found heightened levels of potentially toxic chemicals in tap water supplies serving dozens of major American cities.

A Chinese engineer reveals how he grew the FIRST EVER plant on the MOON using a mini-biosphere, which kept it alive for 9 days as its roots spread out sideways instead of downwards

NYT -- In its daily editions, the Times repeatedly proves it's a lying machine, a propaganda machine, an anti-truth-telling machine on geopolitical and other major issues -- never to be believed or trusted.

Bark pealing was a traditional practice amongst the Sami people of northern Scandinavia and of many different indigenous tribes of North America.

Recently the central banks have found themselves grasping at straws when it comes to moving the economy forward.

Two sisters who attempted to cure their autoimmune disease with veganism claim adopting a raw meat diet finally healed them of the crippling symptoms.

Three Brazilian designers Eduardo Gayotto (Designer), Plinio Ruschi (Environmental Engineer) and Pedro Heldt (Architect) have joined forces to create a four-in-one rocket stove.

Beekeepers frequently open up their hives to check on them, but doing so adds to their workload, and it stresses out the bees. A team of Dutch entrepreneurs set out to develop an alternative, resulting in the BEEP base hive-monitoring system.

Google started filtering "fake news," yet Vorhies got concerned when he discovered examples of news stories tagged as fake news that were in fact factual historical events

Rosa Koire. UN Agenda 2030 exposed

It could help address the world's looming water crisis...People have been trying to turn seawater into drinking water for thousands of years, but the process is not usually energy-efficient or affordable.

Drought-Proof 'Cooling Houses' Use Saltwater and Cardboard to Grow Tons of Healthy Produce in the Desert

American scientists have developed a new 'brain-computer interface strip'

Jacob Hornberger ((Founder & President: Future of Freedom Foundation) on POTUS Campaign - Dr Daniel Larke NMD (Chandler, AZ) on Thrive Regenerative Medicine - Dr Judy Mikovits (PhD, Molecular Biology) on her fight and focus to stop vaccine mandates a

Before you can relax on your porch and watch the sun set over your thriving garden, you'll need to put in a lot of hard work to get your property in working order.

A very long time ago, recorded in a book now known as the Smith Papyrus around 2600 to 2200 B.C, is reported to be the use of copper to sterilize chest wounds and drinking water. In another papyrus, the Ebers Papyrus, written around 1500 B.C., it's

In order to help detect spoilage and reduce food waste for supermarkets and consumers, researchers have developed new low-cost, smartphone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors for meat and fish packaging.

As a flat sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a lattice, graphene is pretty simple, and yet it keeps surprising scientists with new properties. For the latest in a long line of breakthroughs, a team from Stanford has shown that graphene arranged in a s

(Natural News) As a prepper, it's important to know about proper food storage and how to gather the necessary supplies for your stockpile. But how do you prevent food spoilage if you experience a long-term power outage? (h/t to BeansBulletsBandage

If you're like me, you're always looking for off-grid ways to cook. I found this great video that shows you how to easily make a brick over in your backyard for just a few dollars.

Amid fast escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf surrounding Thursday morning's mysterious "attacks" on two tankers which US officials are already blaming on Iran, Saudi Arabia has released CCTV footage of this week's previously reported Yemeni Hout

Technological progress is just one aspect of making the emergence of good money possible.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has quietly revealed some troubling information about a class of toxic chemicals that the agency found in significant levels in our food supply.