Gardening
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Books Cooking
Preparedness items at local Sam's Clubs
Preparedness items at local Sam's Clubs
1 min read
Family Preparedness Food
Backyard Chickens
<img alt="" src="http://www.motherearthnews.com/uploadedImages/Blogs/The_Happy_Homesteader/GardenEggs1.jpg?n=7491" title="Backyard Chickens" class="alignright" width="500" height="350" />Over the past year, I have noticed an increased interest in raising chickens arising all over the nation. Locally, <a href="http://www.ksl.com" title="KSL">KSL</a> has published several articles recently about this phenomenon (see below) as has the <a href="http://online.wsj.com" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a> (also below) and most prepper blogs. My family started keeping backyard chickens about four years ago and have had some good success. In this article we’ll summarize some of the benefits to raising chickens, what you’ll need to get started and some links to resources to help you out once you’ve got your flock.
8 min read
Books Gardening
Review: The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599555107/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=prepper-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1599555107"><img src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1599555107&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=prepper-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" alt="" align="right" border="0" /></a> (Paid link)<img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=1599555107&camp=217145&creative=399373" alt="" width="1" height="1" align="right" border="0" />Walking along the book aisle in Costco the other day, I came to a rather sudden stop as a specific books caught my eye. With a name like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599555107/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=prepper-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1599555107">The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers</a> (Paid link)<img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=1599555107&camp=217145&creative=399373" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />, can you blame me? This was obviously a book stocked for a local audience, so I hope our non-Utah readers can find a copy. Author <a title="Caleb Warnock's blog" href="http://calebwarnock.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Caleb Warnock</a> is a local (Alpine, Utah) writer, year-round gardener, and teacher of "Forgotten Skills" classes. It also helped when I noticed one of the people listed in the special thanks section is a friend of mine, and <a title="Eric James Stone" href="http://www.ericjamesstone.com/" target="_blank">local sci-fi author</a> (how's that for a tight-knit Utah Valley).
5 min read
Food Gardening
Food Production Systems DVD Giveaway Winner Announcement
<a href="/images/uploads/2011/06/backyardfoodproduction.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3793" title="DVD we are giving away!" src="/images/uploads/2011/06/backyardfoodproduction.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="226" /></a>We recently posted a review of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578046725/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=prepper-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217153&creative=399701&creativeASIN=0578046725">Food Production Systems For a Backyard or Small Farm </a> (Paid link) DVD (see it <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2011/06/food-production-systems-dvd-review-and-giveaway/">here</a>. As part of the review we were proud to offer a free DVD to one of our readers who commented on the review. Friday night I used <a href="http://www.random.org/">Random.org</a> to randomly select a winner from the 40 eligible (Sorry <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/author/jayce/">Jayce</a> and <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/author/cboyack/">Connor</a>) entries.
1 min read
Family Preparedness Food
Food Production Systems DVD Review and Giveaway
Food Production Systems DVD Review and Giveaway
8 min read
Books Gardening
Upcoming Giveaway!
<img class="alignright" title="Backyard Food Production DVD" src="http://backyardfoodproduction.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/general_page_thumbs/FPS_DVD_w_discs_out_noBCKGRND_smallest.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="253" /><br /> Next week we'll be posting a review of the <a href="http://backyardfoodproduction.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/general_page_thumbs/FPS_DVD_w_discs_out_noBCKGRND_smallest.jpg">Backyard Food Production DVD</a>. The producers of the DVD have been kind enough to send us a copy of the DVD to reward one of our lucky readers.
1 min read
Gardening Reviews
Book Review: What's Wrong With My Plant?
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3507" title="whats-wrong-with-my-plant" src="/images/uploads/2011/02/whats-wrong-with-my-plant.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="304" />The other day I picked up a new gardening book from the hardware store. Its cover wasn't cluttered with photographs like so many other gardening and home improvement books; in fact, the only photo on the cover was of an obviously-distressed leaf. The rest of the cover was largely devoted to the full title of the book: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881929611?ie=UTF8&tag=prepper-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0881929611">What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?): A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies</a> (Paid link), by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth. This was actually the first thing that caught my eye. I don't like when books try to glam themselves up in an attempt to conceal the vapid content inside. This book looked like it was ready to get down to business, and so I picked it up and started leafing through it. It didn't take me long to decide to buy it.<!--more-->
4 min read
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