by Victoria Gazeley | Feb 4, 2013 | Food Storage, Homestead Planning, Lessons, Vegetable Gardening
Cold, damp, dark. It’s a typical February on the rainy west coast. Not complaining – at least we’re not buried in snow, and the temperatures are relatively balmy compared to a big chunk of the continent. It may not be a good time for soaking in...
by Victoria Gazeley | Aug 22, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, From City to Country, Lessons
There are days that I wonder what I was thinking by trying to do this modern homesteading thing on my own. Like this past week. There I was, having not been sick at all for at least a year, finally feeling human again after more than a week of being unable to walk...
by Victoria Gazeley | Jul 1, 2011 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage
Right now? Without stocking up first? The answer for most of us is, unfortunately, ‘There’s no way’. Most government emergency programs recommend that citizens be prepared to care for themselves and their families for a minimum of three weeks...
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!...
by Victoria Gazeley | Nov 11, 2010 | Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage, From City to Country, Rural Living Skills
How many times have you said this to yourself: “I ‘ve got to get that emergency kit together – but I’ve got time… I’ll do it later”. NF558VFMMUBR Truth is, that’s what most of us do, put off building an emergency kit...
