How To Make Your Own Gardener’s Hand Scrub As the weather starts to warm up and we leave winter behind for another year i know we are only just past december but it is so close to spring and i am really looking forward to this year hopping to grow 90% of my food, some …

Acorns, Nuts and Other Wild Starches Recipes  Wild starches are the toughest need for a forager to meet. Greens and fruits are everywhere, but starch can be tough to come by. I’ve begun with acorns, but I plan on adding recipes for other wild starches as well, such as wild salsify, arrowhead, sunchokes, cattail and tule …

DIY Sandbox with Fold-Out Seats Nothing says childhood like summertime and playing in a sandbox. The sandbox is a great place for the kids to learn and play at the same time, it’s also a gathering center for the community of children, a place where they can have fun and let their imaginations run free. It …

10 Ways to Reuse Plastic Soda Bottles and Save $1000s Plastic bottles are something you likely use or know some one that uses each and every day and 9/10 times they get tossed in the trash.  Reusing these can be more environmentally friendly and it can save some major cash.  Two liter bottles of pop can …

$8 Homemade Air Conditioner – Works Flawlessly! The sun is great, and vital to nearly all of Earth’s processes. The sun also makes the air really hot!  As a result, millions of people turn to air conditioning to cool their homes, cars, offices, etc.  Traditional air conditioning units use massive amounts of energy, making electricity bills …

How To Make Homemade Scented Oil Plug-In Refills Make sure you like Living green and frugally on Facebook  to be updated every time we find a tutorial for innovative ways you can become self-sufficient on a budget. This is a great article on how to refill your scented oil air freshener on the cheap. These …

Making A Knife From A Car’s Leaf Spring Making a knife is a satisfying project on a number of levels. You’re creating a fundamental tool — one of the first tools ever made — and every time you pick it up, you’ll think, “Wow, I made this with my own hands.” And because you’re making …

How To Make Yummy Crock Pot Bread Are you sitting down? Ok, good. Because what I’m about to tell you might just blow your mind: you can make a loaf of fresh, warm, home made bread in your slow cooker.You read that right. You don’t have to turn on the oven this summer to get your fresh …

15 Toys You Threw Away That Are Now Worth A Fortune Call up your mom and tell her you hate her for making you throw those toys away so she could turn your play room into a home office when you started to get older. when i was a child one thing i never did was …

How And Why You Should Be Making Activated Charcoal Knowing how to make activated charcoal and when to use it something we all should know! There are several benefits and uses of this, but the uses for survival are what we are interested in today. We’re not talking about charcoal. We’re talking about activated charcoal. Huge difference. And if you don’t …