Understanding how different wood burns is essential to getting the most out of your fire, whether building one in a hearth or in a fire ring for grilling, smoking, or drying. Master these simple tips to choose the best firewood and get the most out ...
Sheepshead Mushrooms: Hunting Guide and How to Cook Them
Mushroom hunters are badass. Foraging for wild edible mushrooms is a challenge that's all about the thrill of the hunt that ends, hopefully, with a freezer full of nutritious and medicinal mushrooms, all for free. It's for the stout-hearted who are ...
Water Bath Canning: Preserve Your Garden Harvest in 12 Easy Steps
“Pressure cooker explosion kills family pet, nearly takes off granny’s head!” Horror stories similar to this have led to “canning scares” across the nation for years, even though pressure cookers, especially electric-powered models, have gotten a lot ...
Homemade Wine Recipe: Make Your Own Vino With Only ONE Ingredient
You can’t screw this homemade wine recipe up. It has only ONE ingredient. Plus, if our medieval ancestors were able to pull it off without the oversight of the FDA, so can you. Their goal then was the same as ours today: to turn the grapes into a ...
A Gut-Saving, Probiotic Drink: How To Make Water Kefir and Milk Kefir
Dating back 2,000 years from the shepherds of the Caucasus mountains, kefir, a fermented grain drink now found in grocery stores everywhere, was cherished for its perceived mystical health benefits. Whether store-bought or homemade, drinking ...
Survival Garden 109: When to Harvest Your Crops
When is the best time to harvest the homegrown gems from your vegetable garden? When they’re ready. Harvesting time depends on when your seeds or seedlings hit the soil and how long it takes them to germinate. If you didn’t track the dates, simply ...
Survival Garden 108: Preserving Your Harvest
What good is a survival garden if you have to eat everything right away? Come July, it’s all about the harvest — picking, eating, and stockpiling for a rainy day. That means preserving your harvest by finding the best method to keep you in veggies ...
Survival Garden 107: Dealing With Pests
At some point, your garden will fall under attack. Enemies range from mites to deer. These garden pests can devour root systems, eat seedlings, snip leaves, and crush veggies. A survivalist gardener must assess crop damage, identify the culprit, and ...
Survival Garden 106: The Gardener’s Weekly Checklist
A weekly gardening checklist prevents “Garden Gone Wild” overgrowth in the backyard and ensures that your project gets the needed attention to produce the best veggies around. It’s all about watering, weeding, mounding, thinning, and guiding the ...
Survival Garden 105: How To Plant a Garden
It’s time to plant a garden. Survivalist gardening is all about simplifying the planting process while not compromising crop production. It’s about growing kick-ass veggies while removing all the time-consuming, obsessive crap from gardening. It’s a ...
How To Eat Everything: A Guide to Edible Flowers
The landscape is edible. Sure, pick the wrong mushroom and you might take an unexpected trip — or die. Those odds are pretty low but scary for some nevertheless. A better, more risk-averse starting block for new foragers is flowers. They’re generally ...
Survival Garden 104: Planting Cold Crops
Survivalist gardening is all about knowing what works ahead of time. Take planting cold crops, for example. Most people have accepted Memorial Day weekend as the start date for the planting season; however, experienced gardeners know late March to ...
Survival Garden 103: How To Prep Your Soil Before the Season Starts
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that a global panic disrupts supply chains and creates scarcity. Many grocery stores issued buying limits on certain food items, prices skyrocketed, and store shelves thinned out. Realizations of just how dependent ...
Survival Garden 102: Starting Seeds Indoors
Assume an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, was to hit. Would you be able to provide food for your loved ones? Do you know how to take one seed and turn it into hundreds to ensure a food supply for years to come? Harvesting seeds and starting seeds ...
How To Make Kombucha at Home
Kombucha, a fermented tea enjoyed by pharaohs, emperors, and kings, is a popular homeopathic cure for sour stomachs, bloating, cultivating a healthy gut biome, and sluggish energy levels. It’s become a go-to drink for adventure athletes like ...
Survival Garden 101: Why You Need To Plan Before Planting
Free Range American celebrates self-reliance and self-sufficiency, and a survival garden is one essential part of that lifestyle. This growing season, we’re rolling out step-by-step directions taking you through the planting process while removing ...
Rule the Cookout With Granny’s Secret Hot Pepper Homemade Mustard
This is granny’s best-kept secret stored in a jar. One bite, and you’ll be hooked. This hot pepper homemade mustard has a tangy, zesty flavor that explodes on the palette. Bring it to a cookout or barbecue and there will be people asking you how they ...
