by Steve Nubie | February 13, 2019 | Hacks, Homesteading, Steve Nubie, Survival, Tools | 0 Comments

Wood-stoves are Space Heaters.  Here’s How to Get the Heat into Those Hard to Reach Places. Many of us enjoy the warm, direct heat of a wood burning stove.  At times they over-heat a room and we have to adjust dampers, flues and stove-vents to manage the...

by admin | February 6, 2019 | Homesteading, Steve Nubie, Tech | 0 Comments

Here’s What You Need to Know About Home Solar Power and How to Get Started How many of us think solar power is a good idea but just never seem to get around to it?  Well maybe it’s time to take the first step towards solar.  It doesn’t have to be expensive...

by Steve Nubie | January 29, 2019 | Foraging, Hacks, Homesteading, Preppers, Steve Nubie, Survival, Survival Gear, Wilderness, Winter | 0 Comments

When it Comes to Insulation, Goose Down is the Champ.  Here’s How to Find Natural Substitutes that are Just as Good. There’s a reason Goose Down is found in so many sleeping bags, parkas and pillows.  It has proven over centuries to be one of the best...

by Steve Nubie | January 19, 2019 | Homesteading, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills, Tools | 0 Comments

It’s Time to Get Those Antiques Off the Walls and Back into Our Hands Believe it or not, there was a time with no power tools.  Everything was done by hand and the only power was muscle and intelligent leverage.  It was the only way to get things done at a...

by Steve Nubie | January 11, 2019 | Food, Homesteading, Preppers, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills | 0 Comments

It’s Not Just for Beef Anymore.  Here’s How to Explore the Jerky World. It’s hard to say where and when jerky originated.  We’ve been drying food for millennia in the sun, the wind and over variations on a fire.  One idea attributes the actual word...

by Steve Nubie | December 24, 2018 | Emergencies, Food, Food and Shelter, Hacks, Preppers, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills | 0 Comments

Hobos Mastered the Craft of Tin Can Cookery and You Can Too. It’s one thing to forage in the wilderness for wild foods, but cooking them in a way we're accustomed to can be a challenge.  Fortunately, there are some old...

by Steve Nubie | December 24, 2018 | Food, Food and Shelter, Homesteading, Steve Nubie | 0 Comments

Perhaps the Oldest Food Preservation Technique and One That We Should Understand as Another Step Towards Self-Reliance. It’s impossible to establish how food dehydration emerged as a food preservation process but it’s a good bet we have the sun to thank for it. ...

by Steve Nubie | December 12, 2018 | Emergencies, Fire, Food and Shelter, Steve Nubie, Survival, Survival Skills, Wilderness, Winter | 0 Comments

A Shelter can be Critical to Wilderness Survival.  But What Can You do When Time Isn’t on Your Side? Critical needs for effective winter survival make a short list.  Fire, water, food and shelter.  While fire and water may be the most important, shelter...

by Steve Nubie | December 3, 2018 | Emergencies, Fire, Food and Shelter, Hacks, Steve Nubie, Survival, Winter | 0 Comments

Any Temperature Below Freezing in the Wilderness Can be Life Threatening. Here’s How to Survive When the Odds are Against You. Fire and water don’t mix. That’s what makes building any fire on snow and ice so difficult. Any fire in the vicinity of snow covered or...

by Steve Nubie | November 26, 2018 | Food, Food and Shelter, Homesteading, Steve Nubie | 0 Comments

Smoke Cooking is an Ancient Food Preservation Method but Today It’s All About Flavor. The first foods to be successfully smoked were probably the result of a happy accident over a smoldering fire.  In ancient times food never went to waste even if it looked burnt and...