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Image | Walipini Style Greenhouses
Walipini Style Greenhouses
by bgarrett

How would you like to have fresh vegetables and fruit year round? Sounds pretty good right?  Having an underground greenhouse will keep the temperatures hot in the winter and help prevent overheating in the summer; making it possible to grow your garden vegetables through the cold winter months.

How it Works

We all learned in school that under the earth’s crust is magma which heats the entire sphere. Surprisingly, if you dig down 4 feet, the heating process becomes apparent. For the vast majority of the planet, 4 feet below the surface will stay between 50° to 60°F even if the weather above the ground is 10°F with a cold wind! This phenomenon is called the thermal constant and it’s what the underground greenhouse thrives on.
Walipini Style Greenhouses
 by bgarrett

How would you like to have fresh vegetables and fruit year round? Sounds pretty good right?  Having an underground greenhouse will keep the temperatures hot in the winter and help prevent overheating in the summer; making it possible to grow your garden vegetables through the cold winter months.

How it Works

We all learned in school that under the earth’s crust is magma which heats the entire sphere. Surprisingly, if you dig down 4 feet, the heating process becomes apparent. For the vast majority of the planet, 4 feet below the surface will stay between 50° to 60°F even if the weather above the ground is 10°F with a cold wind! This phenomenon is called the thermal constant and it’s what the underground greenhouse thrives on.
Image | How to Make a Quick Can Stove
How to Make a Quick Can Stove
by JW

You may not be able to make this stove out in the field with a pocket knife but it could come in handy in a grid down situation or used as an inexpensive camp stove in you backpack. 

http://survival.outdoorlife.com/blogs/survivalist/2014/02/how-make-quick-can-stove

How to Make a Quick Can Stove
 by JW

You may not be able to make this stove out in the field with a pocket knife but it could come in handy in a grid down situation or used as an inexpensive camp stove in you backpack. 

http://survival.outdoorlife.com/blogs/survivalist/2014/02/how-make-quick-can-stove

Image | Introduction to Companion Planting and Crop Rotation
Introduction to Companion Planting and Crop Rotation
by Phil Williams

When planning your next garden planting it is wise to reflect on the previous year's crops and where they were planted.  It is vital that you are rotating your crops in your zone 1 annual gardens. If your garden features the same plants in the same places year after year, pest pressures will build, soils will become depleted, and disease will run rampant. I rotate my annuals in such a way that the soil and plants benefit. For example, I follow my greedy feeders of nitrogen in the plots where I was growing nitrogen fixing peas and beans.
Introduction to Companion Planting and Crop Rotation
 by Phil Williams

When planning your next garden planting it is wise to reflect on the previous year's crops and where they were planted.  It is vital that you are rotating your crops in your zone 1 annual gardens. If your garden features the same plants in the same places year after year, pest pressures will build, soils will become depleted, and disease will run rampant. I rotate my annuals in such a way that the soil and plants benefit. For example, I follow my greedy feeders of nitrogen in the plots where I was growing nitrogen fixing peas and beans.
Image | 5 steps toward going ‘zero waste’ in the kitchen
5 steps toward going ‘zero waste’ in the kitchen
by JW

Some great tips and ideas to reduce your waste stream in the kitchen and also help with your deep pantry and other resiliency building projects.

http://www.treehugger.com/green-home/5-steps-toward-going-zero-waste-kitchen.html

5 steps toward going ‘zero waste’ in the kitchen
 by JW

Some great tips and ideas to reduce your waste stream in the kitchen and also help with your deep pantry and other resiliency building projects.

http://www.treehugger.com/green-home/5-steps-toward-going-zero-waste-kitchen.html

Image | Mulch in the Garden
Mulch in the Garden
by Phil Williams

When I first started gardening, I wanted to mulch my garden. Coming from a commercial landscape background, it was something I was used to doing, and I understood the benefits. Then I spoke to a relative who had been gardening far longer than I, and he told me how it would burn up my plants. Being new to gardening, I took his advice. Even though I started my garden with two feet of good compost, by summertime, my soil was compacted, and the humus was gone. Without the protection from mulch, my humus layer eroded away, and the soil became infertile and compacted.
Mulch in the Garden
 by Phil Williams

When I first started gardening, I wanted to mulch my garden. Coming from a commercial landscape background, it was something I was used to doing, and I understood the benefits. Then I spoke to a relative who had been gardening far longer than I, and he told me how it would burn up my plants. Being new to gardening, I took his advice. Even though I started my garden with two feet of good compost, by summertime, my soil was compacted, and the humus was gone. Without the protection from mulch, my humus layer eroded away, and the soil became infertile and compacted.
Image | 10 Things People Often Forget to Do Until It’s Too Late in an Emergency
10 Things People Often Forget to Do Until It’s Too Late in an Emergency
by JW

A great list of tasks and things to prep with that often times gets overlooked.  Better a year early than a day late.

http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2014/02/17/10-things-people-often-forget-late-emergency/

10 Things People Often Forget to Do Until It’s Too Late in an Emergency
 by JW

A great list of tasks and things to prep with that often times gets overlooked.  Better a year early than a day late.

http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2014/02/17/10-things-people-often-forget-late-emergency/

Image | 5 Tips to Frugally Prepare
5 Tips to Frugally Prepare
by JW

A few great ideas to help save when beginning to prep.

http://www.edthatmatters.com/5-tips-to-frugally-prepare/

Also check out other frugal tips and savings ideas with the Frugal Living Group here at Peak Prosperity.

5 Tips to Frugally Prepare
 by JW

A few great ideas to help save when beginning to prep.

http://www.edthatmatters.com/5-tips-to-frugally-prepare/

Also check out other frugal tips and savings ideas with the Frugal Living Group here at Peak Prosperity.

Image | How to make cordage from primitive materials
How to make cordage from primitive materials
by JW

Learn from this wonderful video tutorial on how to make cordage from stinging nettles. Also has some great tips on using the fibers around the garden. 

http://graywolfsurvival.com/3183/great-bushcraft-video-need-see/

How to make cordage from primitive materials
 by JW

Learn from this wonderful video tutorial on how to make cordage from stinging nettles. Also has some great tips on using the fibers around the garden. 

http://graywolfsurvival.com/3183/great-bushcraft-video-need-see/

Image | Developing Situational Awareness
Developing Situational Awareness
by Aaron M

One of the most important aspects of surviving emergencies is your ability to be aware of your surroundings. This is ubiquitously referred to as “Situational Awareness” and is often just referred to as “SA”. Situational awareness is a peculiarity amongst those who prepare – it is both a skill and experience. It has to be developed, like any skill, but the more often you find yourself in dicey scenarios, the more likely you are to pick up on subtleties that are out of place, or inconsistent with the surrounding environment.
Developing Situational Awareness
 by Aaron M

One of the most important aspects of surviving emergencies is your ability to be aware of your surroundings. This is ubiquitously referred to as “Situational Awareness” and is often just referred to as “SA”. Situational awareness is a peculiarity amongst those who prepare – it is both a skill and experience. It has to be developed, like any skill, but the more often you find yourself in dicey scenarios, the more likely you are to pick up on subtleties that are out of place, or inconsistent with the surrounding environment.
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