Homesteading, Cooking, Recipes & Gardening Articles

Here you will find the homesteading articles together with the articles on cooking, recipes and gardening/growing your own food, that we have published on Knowledge Weighs Nothing. Here are a few of our most popular homesteading posts --

Log Home Plans: 40 Free Log Cabin Floor Plans & Blueprints

23 Gardening Hacks, Tricks, & Tips (Plus: 3 Gardening Mistakes To Avoid)

How To Make Mead: Plus 5 EASY & Delicious Mead Recipes To Try

Be sure to check out some of the other categories as there are countless other useful and relevant homesteading related posts in the Self-Sufficiency and Prepping/Emergency Preparedness categories.

Find Out Why You Should Be Growing Sage At Home

The sage plant is something we take for granted. Unlike most other herbs, it flowers beautifully, makes a great addition to any garden, and adds an amazing flavor to our meat dishes. It’s a perennial, so it’ll even grow in full sunlight with minimal water – meaning it’s one of the easiest herbs to grow […]

Prepper’s & Homesteader’s Guide To Generators

For most people, buying a generator to power their household is probably the last thing on their mind. But what happens when there’s a major storm, earthquake or a SHTF disaster/scenario that knocks out the power? Even in the best of conditions, the average household will lose power on 3 occasions per year and these […]

Grow Over 300 lbs Potatoes WITHOUT Digging, Watering Or Any Real Effort…

No matter whether you grow some vegetables in your back garden as a hobby or you grow vegetables on a larger-scale on your homestead, you will almost definitely grow some potatoes… Growing potatoes in your garden on a small-scale is simple enough and fun. However, if you harbour any aims of being more self-sufficient you […]

How To Make Mead: Plus 5 EASY & Delicious Mead Recipes To Try

Mead makes for one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in history and, using a basic recipe that consists of just honey, water and yeast, it can also be considered as one of the simplest. That said, for the many that may have tried to make mead and suffered some form of a misstep, this drink […]

How To Store Fresh Eggs For Up To 2 Years

Many people think that once you have some chickens, you then have a constant and predictable supply of eggs. Once you have had some chickens for a while, you soon realise this is not always the case. Well, not in our experience anyway… Chickens can be temperamental creatures and many things such as stress, the […]

The Ultimate Tomato Growing Post — A Round-Up Of Experts’ Growing Tips

This post is a round-up of smaller posts that were previously featured on Knowledge Weighs Nothing. (I am slowly going back through KWN and tidying things up and removing lots of old/dead posts etc). I have compiled several older tomato growing/preserving posts here in one place to make it simpler to find these excellent tomato […]

Microwave Bread Recipe — From Mixing To Eating In Under 5 Minutes

A simple, no-bake, no prove, microwave bread recipe that you can literally make from start to finish in under 5 minutes. It has an approx cook time of 90 seconds. If you are out of bread and you can’t get any, give this simple microwave bread recipe a go. The end result will not be […]

11 Cough Home Remedies That Calm Coughs & Ease Symptoms

The onset of dry cough can be a sign of many different ailments. While a dry cough may be due to a previous cold, it’s not uncommon to experience a dry cough after breathing dry, hot air. For example, many people begin to develop a dry cough after turning on their furnaces for the first […]