by Victoria Gazeley | May 22, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Home Business from the Homestead, Homestead Planning
With all the talk these days about prepping for major events like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, tornadoes and all the other wildness Mother Nature is throwing at us, there’s something getting lost – and that’s emergency planning for less dramatic...
by Victoria Gazeley | Apr 30, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Mentoring, Uncategorized
As I’ve ventured down the road of becoming more self-sufficient, one thing has become abundantly clear: my skills for storing food are sadly lacking. Because I never learned these things growing up, I have to learn it now. But I’m lucky – there are...
by Victoria Gazeley | Mar 12, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness
With all the natural (and not so natural) disasters dominating the news, blogs, and social media, it’s no wonder people are starting to get a little antsy. But you can be prepared for most emergencies by being organized. And it doesn’t have to be...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 26, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Homestead Planning, Rural Living Skills, Vegetable Gardening
There’s just something about having a vegetable garden. Imagine – your own organic market, right outside you front door. No more running to the store for salad, no more worrying about pesticide residues, no more concern about having nothing to eat in an...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jan 12, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Lessons
My son and I have been watching the Little House on the Prairie series on DVD. If you’re not familiar with this icon of 1970s North American television, it’s the story of a pioneer family in Walnut Grove, a tiny town in Minnesota in the late 1800s. ...
by Victoria Gazeley | Dec 31, 2010 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, Homestead Planning, Mentoring, Rural Living Skills, Rural Technology
I spent yesterday going over my goal-setting mind map from last January. This time last year, I had no garden, no greenhouse, an old, decrepit woodshed, an overgrown brush pile where the pasture now stands, no blueberry patch (tiny though it is) and no website!...
