The Harried Homemaker Preps

As you may remember, Hubby Dear and I decided to try two different ways of ripening the green tomatoes we were left with when frosty weathe...

After I posted about an interesting alternative to bouillon cubes that used nutritional yeast , I quickly ordered a can of the mysterious...

We began our survival orchard by planting pecan trees.Why pecans? I'm glad you asked! I think nuts are really important survival foods ...

We've made a lot of progress towards self-reliance on our little homestead this year. We converted our vegetable garden to a square foot...

I hate bouillon cubes. First of all, I can never open the stupid foil papers they are wrapped in. When I finally get the cube out and pop it...

Homemade bread - including my successful Sun Oven experimen t Please allow me a bit of a brag: I have stopped buying bread at the store...

Honey is a major part of most food storage plans and for good reason. It is versatile, has a very long storage life, and is a compact source...

Sometimes I feel like I live between two different worlds and I can't tell which one is reality. The first world is the one explored i...

When I saw this recipe in the American Profile  insert in our local paper, I immediately knew I had to pass it on. Not only is it based arou...

I bought The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times  by Carol Deppe several months ago. Right away, I knew...

Is it just me or did October go by in the blink of an eye? I can hardly believe it is November and that Christmas is just around the corne...

I've been actively preparing for well over a year now and my list of things to get and to do never seems to get shorter. It gets overwhe...

We just had our first hard frost of the year. Although we were sad when it happened, we were thankful that it occurred a bit later than is...