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How to Make A 5 Gallon Bucket Air Conditioner Extreme hot temperatures can make your life difficult especially if you are in the desert or a place where electricity to power your air cooler is not accessible. Having an air conditioner that functions well can come in handy during such …

20 Imaginative Ways to Use Lavender Oil Lavender (lavandula angustifolia) is one of the most versatile herbs and incredibly efficacious as an essential oil. Its botanical name, Lavandula, comes from the Latin, lavare, which means “to wash.” It was probably named for its use cleaning wounds, washing linens, and in …

Guide to Canning: What You Need to Know  Are you interested in learning how to can? Canning is one of the top ways to preserve your garden harvest each year, turning it into delicious recipes. Homesteaders and gardeners alike started canning decades along. So, let’s jump right in with our …

Survival Tips: How to Find drinking Water Humans can survive almost a week without food, but 72 hours without water leaves a human knocking on death’s door. Water is key to survival in any disaster scenario, and it should come before everything else. Water makes up about 60% of your body, flushes …

The Everlasting Garden: 10 Fruits and Vegetables You Can Plant Once and Enjoy Forever! Imagine a garden that once established, required no tilling or planting, but provided years and years of tasty and bountiful crops to harvest throughout the growing season. Sound too good to be true? It is very possible, …

50 Slow Cooker Recipes To Try This Winter Did you know you can poach, stew, braise, simmer, water bath, infuse, roast, and bake in a slow cooker? You can also reheat your dinner or keep it warm when running late.  A family needs feeding, and though breakfast and lunch, with …

12 Fall Camping Tips You Must Remember The crisp autumn air and changing leaves mean that it’s the perfect time for fall camping. Camping in the fall is beautiful. Sunsets have a beautiful, golden hue, parks are less occupied, and the bugs aren’t out in full force. Whether you are …

6 Home Remedies to Cure Hiccups If you do not know what a hiccup is  then, Hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. As the muscle contracts repeatedly, the opening between the vocal cords snaps shut to check the inflow of air and makes the hiccup sound. Irritation of the …

How to Make Maple Syrup If you are one of many people, over priced grocery costs of common fridge items fill you with disgust. Commonly people turn to sales and couponing to try to save as much money as they can while buying needed grocery items. If you can relate …

Living Better With Lemons: 34 Amazing Uses for a Simple Citrus Fruit We all know the old adage “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, but as it turns out, this fantastic fruit has so many more uses than a simple summer refreshment. Of course, lemons can be used in …

There seems to be more and more people who want to live in these small houses, They prefer to keep fewer belongings and cite a myriad of different benefits, chief among them the low cost of owning and maintaining a tiny house. Are you really going to build a tiny home? For …

How you can keep your Chickens cozy and alive during winter season? Like me, if you also have seen your chicken getting cold during the middle of the night, here are some useful tips for keeping them warm and cozy during the winter season. Cold weather and Chicks: Cold can …