The Hidden War on American Agriculture

by suburban | Feb 4, 2024 | Farming, Food, Gardening, Homesteading, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival

The Hid­den War on Amer­i­can Agri­cul­ture In the heart of Amer­i­ca’s sprawl­ing fields and on the cusp of urban sprawl, a silent war is being waged that very few peo­ple are mak­ing pub­lic. This bat­tle, large­ly unno­ticed by the aver­age con­sumer, tar­gets the... Read more

How I Build My Food Storage For Long Term Preparations

by suburban | Nov 22, 2021 | Cooking, Food, Food Storage, Preparedness

So, I have a bud­dy that is pret­ty new to prep­ping, as I am sure many of you do know that we’re deal­ing with or have dealt with what was sup­posed to be a glob­al dead­ly pan­dem­ic.  Every­one went out hoard­ed paper prod­ucts, pas­ta, etc from the... Read more

2012 Urban Garden in Review, by an Anonymous Contibutor

by suburban | Feb 22, 2013 | Gardening, Preparedness, Self Reliance

It was a great year! By com­par­i­son to last year and before our urban gar­den did very well. I cred­it a lot of our suc­cess to trial&error over the last sev­er­al years, learn­ing as we go, read­ing and research­ing why this or that hap­pened etc. Before going... Read more

A Few of the Many Reasons I Love LifeHacker.com

by suburban | Aug 6, 2012 | General, Preparedness, Prepping

Do you know about LifeHacker.com?  It’s a very pop­u­lar web­site that is about “Tips, tricks, and down­loads for get­ting things done.”  It is sim­ply that.  I like it because every now and then they have cool DIY and Mac­Gyver tips that I think relate... Read more

2011 Urban Farming in Review

by ST | Dec 13, 2011 | Gardening, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

2011 was a pret­ty good year farm­ing wise at home. For an urban (I do con­sid­er myself urban) back­yard con­tain­er farm we did pret­ty good. And more impor­tant­ly, we learned a lot to apply for next year. Start­ing out we added sev­er­al new con­tain­ers to our... Read more