With today's modern technology using alternative energy for lighting up the indoors and outdoors makes more sense with many products available. These devices are suitable for any situation lighting...

Having stored items, a garden, and animals are being self-sufficient. Having a self-reliant life takes deliberate intention that begins right where you are right now. So it's not necessarily all...

Live Flames Inside a Fire Brick Lined Wood Burning Stove It has been said that fire brick isn't needed inside a wood-burning stove's fire chamber. However, there are good reasons to use fire...

Hot Fire Inside a Fireplace We have a lot of uprooted trees from years past. These roots get loaded with fatwood, lightwood, heart pine, lighter knot, or whatever you call it, which we use to...

Suppose the prospect of seriously getting away from people living in a city or urban rat-race and live in the country, or another remote area attracts you. Have you considered all aspects of what it...

Having lived in rural and suburban America, I have learned to appreciate some of the finer details of living away from larger metropolitan areas' hustle and bustle. According to the US Census, 80% of...