Here you will find tips, ideas, and advice on living a DIY and practical self-reliance lifestyle. Whether you want to grow and preserve your own food, live a healthier life thanks to natural products and ingredients, embrace self-reliance by living off the grid, prepare your family for a power outage or other emergency, or simply want to “do it yourself” at home, then you’ve come to the right place! We want all of those things too, so let’s learn together.
Valuable Homesteading skills: Cold Process Soap Making
Are you trying to build up your homesteading skills? Learning the art of soapmaking is a traditional skill that all homesteaders should have.
Make Your Own Effective St. John’s Wort Tincture
St. John’s Wort tincture is a potent herbal medicine for depression, anxiety and insomnia that you can make at home.
Caring for Baby Chicks: Essential Tips for Success
Caring for baby chicks is fun, educational, and is one of the most rewarding things you will do! It can also be heartbreaking. Check out these tips to get started.
5 Amazing Environmental Benefits of Raising Chickens
Raising chickens is not only fun but is also sustainable and has many environmental benefits.
Easy Steps to Creating A Food Forest In Your Backyard
The Food Forest is an innovative new way of eating that combines organic farming with permaculture principles. Learn more about its benefits!
Composting 101: An Easy Composting How To Guide
Making homemade compost is easy with this composting how to guide. Learn how to make, use and care for effective compost that will boost plant growth in your garden, while helping you be more sustainable!
Easy Ways To Create A Pollinator Garden
Creating a pollinator garden will benefit every living creature and help keep our planet healthy.
Harvesting Lemon Balm Plant and 3 Easy Drying Methods
Lemon balm plant is an herbal ally worth preserving and harvesting. Here are some tips on how to harvest, dry and preserve this amazing plant ally.
5 Easy Steps to Making And Using Blue Vervain Tincture
Blue vervain tincture helps you find peace in your body, mind, and emotions.
Foraging For Stinging Nettle And 5 Amazing Benefits You Didn’t Know
The health benefits of stinging nettle and how to find, identify, harvest, and prepare them.
Branch Weaving: Create a Unique & Whimsical Nature Craft in a Weekend
Looking for an easy and unique nature craft for all skill levels? Try branch weaving.
Bare Root Fruit Trees—The Cheap Way to Grow Your Own Fruit
Bare root fruit trees are cheaper than container-grown trees, easier to plant and the first-year survival rate is much higher. In this article, we explain what bare root trees are, how to plant them, and how to care for them after planting.
Quick And Easy DIY Disinfectant Spray Using 3 Common Kitchen Ingredients
Make your own all-natural DIY disinfectant spray. It’s cost-effective, smells great, and is better for your health.
How to Make a Ginger Bug for Healthy Homemade Sodas
There’s no need to buy store-bought sodas when you can make your own homemade fermented sodas at home with ginger bug. This free-range culture is easy to catch and maintain so you can make probiotic sodas all year round.
12 Easy Herbal Bath Tea Recipes to Elevate Your Bath to Therapeutic Heights
Elevate your bath by taking a relaxing soak with these 12 simple herbal bath tea recipes.
