Off-Grid Foods

Often when talking about foods with a long shelf life, the items we describe don’t comprise a very appealing diet. Living on rice and beans in...

There's a pioneer cooking tradition in the United States that stretched from cook camps on cattle drives to lumber camps. It's "perpetual soup,” known in some...

Baking bread usually requires an oven. But what do you do when you're a pioneer living in the 1800s -- and you don’t have an oven?...

Food preservation skills are an important part of homesteading. It’s wonderful to pop open a jar of home-canned tomatoes or enjoy your own frozen peaches when...

Fermented foods: the words bring up images of sauerkraut and kimchi along with other pungent morsels. But if you haven’t given it much more thought than...

The first Thanksgiving – at least, the one involving the Pilgrims -- is believed to have occurred over a period of three days, sometime between Sept....

August, September and early October are the prime months for milkweed pods in many parts of North America. The pods range in size from 2 to...

A variety of oak trees across North America produce acorns that usually mature in early to late fall. The size and shapes vary -- and so does...

The average healthy, mature apple tree can produce a few hundred pounds of apples every year. That’s a whole lot of apples! Whether you have your...

Extending the shelf life of root vegetables like potatoes has been practiced for centuries as a method to enjoy the harvest year-round. Traditionally, potatoes grown for...