Soaking Secrets to Master the Art of Cooking Beans

Here is a short but good article from Preparedness Mama on soaking beans.  Good information for the beginning scratch cook.  Enjoy!

DIY Spice Mixes And Herb Tips

     A good post from Are We Crazy or What? about DIY Spice Mixes and herb Storage.  A lot of really usefull information and a couple of good Ball products featured in the article.  Enjoy!

Make a 3-Legged Stool

     Another good article from Mother Earth News, this time instructions about making a 3-legged stool with concrete and scrap wood.  Enjoy!

Meatless Recipes for Hard Times

     Here is a concise article from Preparedness Advice Blog containing three meatless recipes for when times get hard.  Enjoy!

10 Household Products You Never Have To Buy Again {With Shopping List}

An informative article from the Ready Nutrition website:  10 Household Products You Never Have To Buy Again {With Shopping List}.  I wonder if the recipes are as easy as the site says...

Break the Bank: Build Your Local Economy

     Another good article from Mother Earth News on "getting back to the basics" of economy.  Bartering is making a huge resurgence all around the country and is a good way to get what you need and help out a neighbor at the same time.  A site you can go to if you'd like try bartering is Barter Quest (non-affiliate link), check out the "meet you half way club" while you are there.

Crockpot Chicken Corn Chowder

     This looks so tasty!   And the weather is getting to that cooler time of year when a mug of hot soup is a good warm-up after being out in the cold all morning taking care of the animals.  Good Eats!

Accountability in Charity

     Excellent post about being accountable for how you assist others.  Please read!

Preppers To Freeze Without A Crosscut Saw

     A short article about the advantages of having a crosscut saw to assist you in cutting firewood.  Also has a link to buying a crosscut saw as well as sharpening guide.  Enjoy!

7 Ways to be a Better Prepper

     An article with some very good ideas.  Take a look!

Sew by Hand: Build Your Own Sewing Kit

     A good article on getting together your own sewing kit so you can repair your clothes instead of buying new ones just because you get a hole in them. Enjoy!

     The book offered at the end of the article is no longer available from their website.  You can however, find it here (affiliate link):  Sewn by Hand: Two Dozen Projects Stitched with Needle & Thread

The Pantry Primer

     A good series of articles about building up your pantry and efficiently using the items located there including getting started, meal plans, home canning, and much much more.  Read them all as a good source of excellent information.

Living Fences: How-To, Advantages and Tips

     Another excellent article from the folks at Mother Earth News.  This one is about growing living fences.  If I had a larger homestead and could keep livestock larger that chickens and ducks, this would be a project I could see undertaking.

Step-by-Step Plan to Fill Your Pantry Using Only Your Grocery Budget

     A quick three minute read from Family Survival Planning with a basic strategy for getting your food stores on a budget.  I think this is a method everyone can use to prepare. 

39 Fantastic Prepping Tips

     Another excellent article from Backdoor Survival with thirty-nine preparedness tips submitted by readers of the blog.  The last one on the list is very simple, I'm suprised I never thought of something similar.  I'm going to be using that tip every time I go on vacation.

Top 10 Items for Modern Homesteading Kitchen

     A list of items of use in any kitchen, not just a homesteading one.  See what you have on the list, are there things you are missing?  This would be a good weekend to hit a yard sale or a thrift store to see what you can pick up.

Poor and Prepping : 5 Ways to be Prepared

     This one is from a guest blogger at thesurvivalistblog.net.  It contains five good strategies for getting prepared if you, like most of us don't have a ton of cash to throw at getting prepped.  I think my favorites were the "1+1=stockpile" and "K.I.S.S. & Thrifty" methods.  Of course I think the author intended all of them to be used at the same time, but none-the-less, those were my favorites.

The Best Preparedness Moves You Can Make Right Now for FREE!

     For those of us prepping int the no or low budget mode, edthatmatters.com has produced this excellent article with no-nonsense things you can do now to help you be prepared in case of and emergency or natural disaster.

Seven Reasons You Should Learn to Cut Hair

     This is a good article with seven well though out reasons why you should learn to groom hair, human and pet. 

Eight Reasons to Live Frugally

A concise article with good advice as to why you should live within your means.