What is Safe Canning?

Is canning safe? If you’ve done any reading on social media about canning, you’ll find a whole lot of strong opinions on whether or not canning is safe and a good thing to do. There are two extremes on the spectrum of whether or not canning is safe. On the one side is the Nervous…

Raising Chickens

[Part One of a three-part series. In this first installment I’ll help you decide if raising chickens is right for you and what breeds you might want to get.] Even though I’ve had chickens for eight years, I’ve never really pushed the idea of raising chickens as a part of prepping or self-reliance. Until now.…

Are You Ready?

Experts are predicting food shortages world wide. So… the question is: Are you ready? Just when we think we’ve weathered the worst of the Corona storm, now we are hearing reports that some sectors of food production are shut down and others are hampered by worker shortages. More and more it appears that food shortages…