By Kent Page McGroarty Guest writer for Wake Up World As wonderful as growing your own food is, soil quality is often an issue. While most plants and vegetables thrive in loamy, well-draining soil...
Category - D.I.Y. and Self Sufficiency
Vermiculture: How To Build A Worm Bin the Cheap and Easy Way
By Gaye Levy Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using worms to create compost. The official term for this is “Vermicomposting”...
Can Guerrilla Gardening Save The World?
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “If kids grow kale, they eat kale,” Ron Finley, a famed guerrilla gardener, asserts during his 2013 TED talk. He also...
Water: the Most Important Survival Basic
22nd June 2013 By Gaye Levy Contributing Writer for Wake Up World A frequent theme in the preparedness community is the importance of water. Where to find it, how to store it, how to...
Conscious Gardening: Find Better Health In Your Own Organic Garden
By Michael Roads Guest Writer for Wake Up World We live in times of constant pressure. In school and the workplace there is a pressure to perform; in sports and manufacturing, a pressure to excel...
Growing Edible Weeds
By Michael Smith Guest Writer for Wake Up World For some time now already I have been deliberately growing edible weeds in my garden and aside from those that popped up all by themselves, such as...
7 Last Minute Prepping Items
6th June 2013 By Gaye Levy Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Every single one of us has been in a situation where the weather forecasters and civil authorities have warned of an...
The Miracle of Tea Tree Oil: 80 Amazing Uses for Survival
By Gaye Levy Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Essential oils have been used for healing and medicinal purposes for centuries and most certainly long before we had pills, capsules and...
16 Food Storage Tips for the Space Challenged Prepper
23rd May 2013 By Gaye Levy Contributing Writer for Wake Up World One of the more common prepper challenges is finding room for stored food and water. Lucky you if you have a large home...
26 Five-Minute Prepping Projects
21st May 2013 By Gaye Levy Guest Writer for Wake Up World One of the excuses used for not prepping is that it takes a lot of time. True enough. Anything that you pursue with passion and...
Growing, Grinding and Cooking Wheat
11th April 2013 By Gaye Levy Guest Writer for Wake Up World When I first started prepping, I was befuddled about wheat. I just simply did not understand why the heck anyone...
City Farming with Backyard Quail – An Alternative to Raising Chickens
By Gaye Levy Guest Writer for Wake Up World Back in September, I shared some information about raising livestock. Although it was a bit tongue in cheek, the serious...
