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How to Make Compost Tea

How to Make Compost Tea

Every good prepper should know how to make compost tea. If you’re already creating your own compost, then it’s simply to go one step further and make some nutrient-rich tea out of it for your plants. My plants absolutely love the stuff; both in the garden and even my plants indoors. Here are some easy [...]

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Choosing A Rain Barrel

Choosing a Rain Barrel

It’s getting dry around here, and that’s unusual. Where I live in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve had a couple of years of very dark and rainy springtime weather. In fact, it’s been so wet that we were about to patent the name “June-uary”. All of this has changed this year, and we’re now looking at [...]

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Beneficial Insects Are Your Friends

Beneficial Insects Are Your Friends

Bugs! Don’t you hate ‘em? Well, don’t be too quick! Insects may all look icky to you but some are very beneficial to your garden’s health. By that I mean that many of those bugs actually kill harmful insects that want to eat breakfast, lunch and supper in your vegetable garden. There are three different [...]

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Old Spanish Forts and the New Chinese Bird Flu

Old Spanish Forts and the New Chinese Bird Flu

Last week we found ourselves anchored near a national monument in Matanzas Inlet, Florida called Fort Matanzas National Monument. It was built in the 1740′s to guard the southern approach to St. Augustine. There is a colorful history and I encourage you to research it for yourself because the actual history behind it, or the [...]

Landscape Design That Saves and Stores Water

Landscape Design That Saves and Stores Water

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a rain cloud. Quick – catch it before it runs away. We humans don’t do a very good job of capturing and storing water. In fact, most of the water that falls on our homes drains quickly and efficiently away from them once again. If a drop of water [...]

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IRS Admits to Targeting Non-Profit Prepper and Conservative Organizations

IRS Targets Non-Profits

You may have been hearing from people considered “conspiracy theorists,” that our government has been “targeting” preppers and conservatively-minded individuals. You also probably thought that such theories were not only improbable, but silly. However, while that may be the case, some of these “theories” may have a grain of truth in them — a recent [...]