Best LED lantern for kids and adults general power outage preparedness

What’s the best LED lantern for kids and all around emergency lantern? In this video, I show how our kids have been using the best LED flashlight lantern for the price. Along with the battery operated lanterns, they use our PowerX AA/AAA battery charger daily. Check out the LED Lanterns on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2RIYUYI **** Item List and Resources **** …

Learn How to Make a Comfrey Poultice With a Blender

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What Is A Comfrey Poultice? Simply put, a comfrey poultice is moist ground up comfrey (usually leaves but sometimes root as well) applied to a wound and covered with a cloth. This natural healing method has been used for a very long time and is not limited to comfrey. [well type=””]If you’re new to comfrey, check out this article. What Is …

Rice Knife Review – Growtech KNK-HTS1200

Rice knife review for homesteaders

I Love This Rice Knife! Jenn gave me a rice knife / grass sickle for Christmas this past year. I love this thing so much I wanted to let y’all know about it. The best part is that it sells on Amazon Prime for $10 to $12 bucks! In my opinion, this is an essential homestead hand tool. If permaculture …

Building a Raised Garden Bed With Wood Sides From a Pine Tree

Building a raised garden bed with wood sides from a pine tree

3 Part Video Series on Building a Raised Garden Bed Now that our house is mostly finished and we are living on the homestead, It’s time to put in a garden. We would love to go big but the truth is, I haven’t managed a garden in almost 20 years. We decided to start with a single raised garden bed …

Help Installing Dryer Vent in Middle of House

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See how we installed a dryer vent in the middle of our house During our mobile home reno, figuring out how to install our dryer vent in the middle of our house proved to be a bit of a challenge. Before giving up and changing the house layout, again, I found a product that allows you to go down through …

State of the Homestead 2015

An organic peach grown on our homestead. It is a few weeks from being ready for harvist

East Texas Homestead Update (Mid 2015) Can you believe that this year is just about half way over? Me either! It this post, I’m going to give an overview of what’s been happening on the homestead. In some ways it feels like very little has happened in 2015 but when I start placing it all on paper, I realize how …