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The Long-Lasting, Never-Go-Bad ‘Survival Soup’ The Pioneers Ate

The Long-Lasting, Never-Go-Bad ‘Survival Soup’ The Pioneers Ate

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 regions as the Skillagalee kettle. Back in 1910, Horace Kephart wrote an iconic book ...

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How To Use EVERY Single Part Of An Animal When Butchering

How To Use EVERY Single Part Of An Animal When Butchering

As children in school we were often taught, Native Americans used every part of an animal when butchering, from nose to tail. Nothing was wasted, not even bones or sinew. In today’s world we buy our choice cuts from the ...

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Here’s What To Do With All Of Those Extra Deer Parts

Here’s What To Do With All Of Those Extra Deer Parts

When you hunt and use every part of a deer, you respect and honor not only just nature but age-old hunting traditions that we seem to have forgotten in our busy digital life. Hunting as a means to feed and ...

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Why Almost Everyone Is Wrong About Choosing Best Homesteading Chickens

Why Almost Everyone Is Wrong About Choosing Best Homesteading Chickens

When I first started looking into getting chickens for my small backyard garden, I couldn’t believe how many breeds there were! It was dizzying trying to decide among hundreds of chicken breeds in all shapes, sizes, colors, and temperaments. Choosing ...

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The Very Best Backyard Chickens For Meat

The Very Best Backyard Chickens For Meat

For most homesteaders and those working toward a more sustainable lifestyle, raising meat animals is almost a rite of passage. Due to the ease of raising and harvesting poultry, chickens are generally the first animal most of us turn to ...

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15 Vital Items The Pioneers Stockpiled For Hard Times

15 Vital Items The Pioneers Stockpiled For Hard Times

We tend to think that stockpiling food and supplies for an emergency is a modern invention. But it’s not. It actually started thousands of years ago, with people stockpiling food for a snowy day. Those ancestors of ours knew something ...

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How To Make A $75 Meat Smoker Out Of Wood Pallets

How To Make A $75 Meat Smoker Out Of Wood Pallets

Owning a smoker gives you the ability to preserve and attribute a wonderful flavor to your meat and other foods. Smokers are simple to construct and can be built from a variety of materials. The basic necessities, regardless of your ...

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4 Forgotten Meat-Preservation Methods Of The 1800s

4 Forgotten Meat-Preservation Methods Of The 1800s

The struggle to keep and store enough food is not a new problem, and as far back as 12,000 B.C., there is evidence of food preservation. The greatest tools to the ancients would have been sun and wind. Of course, ...

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