Alex's Articles

Bring Southwest flavor to your table with this easy casserole featuring cornbread, taco-seasoned meat and cheddar cheese. A quick, family-approved meal.

Learn how to fill your from-scratch pantry with essential staples, avoid expired foods through simple rotation habits, and use frugal strategies for budget-friendly stocking.

Make preparing for winter on your homestead easy with 20 practical tips to ensure you are ready before cold weather strikes.

When on the journey to a healthier lifestyle, food is a good place to start. There are lots of bad food ingredients and chemicals that are introduced as acceptable to our food supply. Just avoiding a few of these can dramatically improve your family’s health.

Everyday situations can make use of the things that you prepare and help your family get through the unexpected. In this article, I will discuss some of the other events you should prepare for.

Building a local group is a great way to prepare for disaster. Your friends and neighbors are key when it comes to preparing, supporting each other, and creating a strong community. But where do you start? This article teaches you how to create a preparedness group in your community.

Dealing with injuries to our body sucks. And often disabilities seem to take more away than they give. However, it is still possible to live on a homestead and enjoy life, despite a disability. This article gives you tips to make that happen.

Homesteading can be expensive. Yet there are some great ways to live a frugal and healthy life without even giving up what you love. In this article, I share six tips to help you stretch your budget and live a better frugal life.

Balance. It’s key to so many things in life. And it’s insanely easy to fall out of balance. This article gives you eight tips to keep your life in balance and help your homesteading journey be a more enjoyable one.

Two terms that get thrown around all the time are Homesteading and Prepping or Emergency Preparedness. The question is, are these things unrelated? Can you even do one without the other? This article discusses each topic and how they relate.