Survival Homestead

Far Fewer Americans Believe in ‘Global Warming’

Joshuah — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:29:52 +0000

Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. And the share of people who believe pollution caused by humans is causing temperatures to rise has also taken a dip, even as the [...]

Cleveland Volcano on Aleutians spews ash plum

Joshuah — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:44:37 +0000

Geologists are on alert after the Cleveland Volcano spewed an ash plume up to 20,000 feet. The Alaska Volcano Observatory reports that the volcano on Alaska’s Aleutians Islands erupted late Friday, prompting the observatory to raise the mountain’s threat level to code orange. The observatory says satellite views showed the ash cloud drift northeast about 375 miles [...]

Ammo rationing at Wal-Mart as panic buying sweeps US

Joshuah — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:46:55 +0000

The USA is suffering the most severe ammunition famine in living memory. Gun fanciers, fearing a Democrat crackdown on every American’s right to pack heat, are clearing shelves at ammo shops and hoarding cartridges. AP reports that the Remington Arms Company’s factory in North Carolina is now working around the clock trying to supply insatiable demand [...]

Johns Hopkins student kills apparent burglar with sword

Joshuah — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:54:29 +0000

A Johns Hopkins University student killed an apparent burglar with a samurai sword after discovering the man in his garage, police said Tuesday. Baltimore, Maryland, police received a phone call shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday about a suspicious person, and an off-duty officer arrived at the scene with campus security, city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. When [...]

From a Porch in Montana, Low-Power Radio’s Voice Rises

Joshuah — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:58:02 +0000

Text of H.R. 1147: Local Community Radio Act of 2009 The floor of the broadcast booth at KXZI radio, which is, truth be told, really just Scott Johnston’s front porch, slopes gently down toward the yard, as 90-year-old farmhouse porches tend to do. Mr. Johnston, once a folksinger, says that small stations like his, if royalty payments [...]

Seller, beware: Feds Cracking Down On Garage Sales

Joshuah — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:53:39 +0000

If you’re planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you’d best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products. The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces [...]

County fairs’ cheap tickets lure big crowds

Joshuah — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:21:25 +0000

Find county fairs @ http://www.countyfairgrounds.net/master/masterhome.html Families who want cheap, close-to-home fun this summer are heading in record numbers to a pastime that dates to the 1800s: the county fair. "The economy worked in our favor, because so many people were staying home and looking for a lot of bang for their buck," says Linda Zweig, spokeswoman for [...]

Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative

Joshuah — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:52:09 +0000

When Nathaniel Roe, 92, died at his 18th-century farmhouse here the morning of June 6, his family did not call a funeral home to handle the arrangements. Instead, Mr. Roe’s children, like a growing number of people nationwide, decided to care for their father in death as they had in the last months of his life. [...]

Potato famine disease striking home gardens in U.S.

Joshuah — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:38:47 +0000

Ok so I am paranoid, but that doesn’t mean that I’m wrong. Think about this scenario, based on the highlighted text below: The home gardener will be putting the entire food industry at risk by their alleged ignorance of things like late blight, and will therefore be need to be controlled and regulated by some government [...]

With Economy Down, Cities Are Growing

Joshuah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:55:11 +0000

Reversing a decade-long trend, many of the largest U.S. cities are now growing more quickly than the rest of the nation, yet another sign of an economic crisis that is making it harder for people to move. Census data released Wednesday highlight a city resurgence in coastal regions and areas of the Midwest and Northeast, due [...]

How to Grow 100 lbs. of Potatoes in 4 Square Feet.

Joshuah — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:43:35 +0000

THE CAGE METHOD Grow a few potato plants, each or in their own wooden box, crib, barrel or wire cage. The container should be about 18×18 inches at the base, about 24-30 inches tall, and able to be gradually filled with soft soil or mulch as the vines grow. Set each container atop a well-prepared fertile [...]

More use grazing sheep, goats against invasive weeds, vines

Joshuah — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:35:18 +0000

In between rows of grapevines at a Mendocino County farm in California, dozens of sheep are milling about, munching on the grass and weeds. Sarah Cahn Bennett, co-owner of the family-owned Navarro Vineyards in Philo, Calif., says they began using the flock of 70 in June to keep the vineyard trimmed and minimize the work of [...]

Thousands still in FEMA trailers

Joshuah — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:58:06 +0000

Four years since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, there are still nearly 3,000 mobile homes and trailers across the Gulf Coast housing victims of that disaster. In Louisiana, there are 2,100 families living in trailers, most of them homeowners struggling to rebuild their homes, according to figures released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Mississippi [...]

Official Food, Inc. Movie Site – Hungry For Change?

Joshuah — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:28:45 +0000

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Dead fish found again in Virginia

Joshuah — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:03:35 +0000

Sightings of dead fish again are being reported by citizens as well as biologists of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the Department of Environmental Quality. The number of rivers the reports have come from is small, but "significant numbers of fish with lesions" have been noted, according to the game and [...]

Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified

Joshuah — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:59:14 +0000

Rev 8:7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. Rev 8:8 [...]

Necessary for survival of the species? Japanese plant factories churn out immaculate vegetables 24 hours a day | Mail Online

Joshuah — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:08:01 +0000

This is certainly not the future of food for my house. There is more to gardening and food production than just the end result of consumption. I can see that these plant factories are an interesting experiment in food production for the masses, I just don’t wish to be considered part of the mass. They look [...]

‘Earth 2100′: Final Century of Civilization?

Joshuah — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:47:40 +0000

It’s an idea that most of us would rather not face — that within the next century, life as we know it could come to an end. Our civilization could crumble, leaving only traces of modern human existence behind. It seems outlandish, extreme — even impossible. But according to cutting edge scientific research, it [...]

Crisis spurs spike in ’suburban survivalists’

Joshuah — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:13:05 +0000

Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn’t even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the expensive San Diego suburb of La Jolla. Wiseman [...]

States unleash goats to keep grass trimmed

Joshuah — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:19:11 +0000

People should be doing similar things with their acres upon acres of decorative yard… Forty bearded goats have been dispatched by the State Highway Administration to control plant growth in the area. They have been munching in an enclosed area for a week; they will stay until September, but will be put back to work next [...]