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Wood Stove Vs Pellet Stove: Which One is Right for You?

by Steve Nubie | February 20, 2019 | Fire, Food and Shelter, Homesteading, Tools, Winter | 0 Comments

Both Types of Stoves Have Advantages and Disadvantages. Here’s How to Weigh the Options. The idea of wood heat is appealing to many people. In many ways it...

10 Ways to Maximize the Heat from Your Wood-Burning Stove Across the Whole House

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. ...

Home Solar Power 101

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...

Natural Materials You Can Use in Place of Goose Down

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...

How to Restore Early American Lumber and Carpentry Tools

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...

Mastering the Craft of Making Jerky

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...

8 Ways to Turn Tin Cans into a Kitchen

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...

Food Dehydration Methods

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...

Instant and Natural Winter Survival Shelters

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...

Building and Maintaining a Sustainable Fire in Winter

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...

Natural Materials You Can Use in Place of Goose Down

by Steve Nubie | January 29, 2019

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 insulating materials to keep the heat in and […]

Eat Your Trees: How to Wild Forage from the Largest Plants in the Forest

by Steve Nubie | November 13, 2018

When you wild forage you tend to look down to the ground, but maybe it’s time to look up and eat your trees. If you know what to look for you can find a virtual bounty of wild foods in fields and forests. But our focus always tends to be on plants underfoot. There are […]

Where To Find Water In The City When There’s Not A Drop To Drink

by Steve Nubie | October 4, 2018

When the faucets don’t work, and the toilet won’t flush, and the bathtub is a desert – here’s what to do. Life in the city can be tough. Life in a city without water can be a whole lot tougher. People in Flint, Michigan have lots of experience with that reality. In fact, many parts […]