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13 Cool Homesteading DIY Projects For Preppers
1. Create a DIY Greenhouse
You can make your own greenhouse for $50. Growing food is essential for an off the grid homesteader/prepper. A greenhouse will extend your growing season so you can produce more food!
Here are 10 DIY Simple Greenhouse Plans
2. Build a Potatoe Gardening Box
Even if you live in a city and don’t have a lot of space, you will be able to grow 100 pounds of potatoes in only 4 square feet. Imagine how much food you could produce if you build several gardening boxes!
3. Homemade Vinegar
The homesteader multi-purpose product: health, household, pets, beauty, etc. Very easy to make and so useful. You just need some apples, water and a container. Learn how to make your own apple cider vinegar and how to use this awesome tool!
4. Build a Wind Powered Water Pump
Make a water pump that runs on wind out of bicycle parts! This project will increase your self-sufficiency. This pump can be used for your water supply or your garden!
5. Make Your Own Cooking Oil
Don’t rely on the grocery store and make your own cooking oil with these instructions.
6. Preserve Tomatoes with Canning Jars
Preserving tomatoes is the most simple canning you can do when you are a beginner. This is a recipe for stewed tomatoes, but there are all sorts of delicious recipes out there for tomatoes.
Canning 101 for beginners here.
7. Build Your Own Chicken Coop
You are not a real homesteader without chicken. You will get instructions to build all you need for raising chicken: chicken coop, feeders, waterers, nesting boxes. Get your chicken coop on a budget!
8. Build an Easy Outdoor Rocket Stove
Create an alternative cooking source with this simple rocket stove!
9. Make Your Own Canned Pickles
After harvesting your cucumbers from your garden, a great way to preserve them is making canned pickles. Grow in summer and eat in winter!
10. Get Food from Mother Nature
Our ancestors didn’t rely only on the food they produced. They also harvested wild plants, fruits and mushrooms. But they were also good hunters, fishers and trappers. Wild food is an extra source of supply that is free and can make you thrive in a SHTF situation.
11. Learn to Bake Without an Oven
Before the industrial age, many farmers didn’t have an oven because it was too expensive. A very good project is to cook your food with a Dutch oven!
12. Make Homemade Cheese
Learn to make goat cheese and mozzarella from fresh milk!
13. Build Your own Metal Foundry and Make Your own Tools
Make a Mini Metal Foundry
Make Your Tools from Soda Cans
Chicken Coop For Less Than 50$
50$ Chicken Coop
Build this awesome chicken coop and get all accessories you need for pennies on the dollars! Raising chicken is a great way to increase your self-sufficiency. They produce meat, eggs, feather and manure. Food for you and your garden. And chicken control all the pests in your garden!
Get Tutorial Here
Chicken Nesting Box With 5 Gallons Bucket
Turn 5 gallons buckets into nesting boxes. It’s so easy! Check it out here.
Egg laying chickens should have a comfortable place to sit and nest if you don’t want them to lay eggs here and there and everywhere. All pre-made chicken coops or chicken coop plans will include 12″x12″x12″ nesting boxes (one cubic foot), which is considered to be big enough for all sizes of laying hen.
A standard 5 gallon plastic bucket has a radius of 5.5″ and a depth of 14″, making its volume 0.76 cubic feet, which is close enough to keep most breeds of chicken happy!
Chicken Feeder
You will need:
- 5 gallon bucket (lid is optional)
- Nuts and bolts
- Plastic saucer with vertical sides (14″ seems good)
Get the tutorial Here
Chicken Waterer
- Five gallon plastic bucket
- Lid with a spigot (or standard lid with a rubber seal will work too)
- Flat rubber plumbing washers
- Nuts and bolts
- Tiny rubber gaskets
- 14″ plant pot saucer
Get the tutorial Here
Looking for more ideas? Check out this great book by Bill Keene.