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Prepping 101 – A Step By Step Plan for How to Get Started Prepping – pt.5
This is the fifth in a series for the beginning prepper on how to get started Prepping. In part one of this series we covered...
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Prepping 101 – A Step By Step Plan for How to Get Started Prepping – pt.4
This is the fourth in a series for the beginning prepper on how to get started Prepping. In part one of this series we covered...
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Prepping 101 – A Step By Step Plan for How to Get Started Prepping – pt.3
This is the third in a series for the beginning prepper on how to get started Prepping. In part one of this series we covered...
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Prepping 101 – A Step By Step Plan for How to Get Started Prepping – pt.2
This is the second in a series for the beginning prepper on how to get started Prepping. If you want to read part 1, you...
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Prepping 101 – A Step By Step Plan for How to Get Started Prepping – pt.1
I have been asked before by friends how I got started with prepping. It seems the concept can be pretty daunting at first for some...
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How to Make Rope from Plants – Natural Cordage Making
You can make rope or natural cordage (rope and string) from many different fibers including (Bast) Dogbane, Milkweed, Nettles, Hemp, Flax; (Leaves) Cattail, Yucca, Agave,...
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How To Plant Bare-Rooted Fruit Trees
As a child I grew up in a house named The Orchard and although the land had long since been sold off several large apple...
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Are We The Last Generation of ‘WILD’ Humans?
Could side effects from food additives, water fluoridation, GMOs, tainted air, and excessive vaccines cause people to become mediocre and lose their critical thinking abilities?...
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Practice Combat Without Getting Killed
There are two sides to most of the more opinionated comments and occasionally articles I read out in the blogging world with respect to any...
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How To Back Up A Trailer
A lot of people plan to bug out if the SHTF with all of their survival gear stowed in their vehicle or pulled in a...
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Spring Cleaning – Survival Style
It’s that time of year! Time to break out all of your summer clothes and put away all of your winter gear. Spring cleaning is...
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How to Use and Care for an Axe
Axes can be used for so many tasks in a survival or camping situation. Like any tool, especially one with a sharp edge it is...
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How to Wipe Yourself Off the Grid
There are lots of reasons to unplug from the grid. And I’m not talking about the electrical grid. I mean the “grid” as in the...
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How to Make A Survival Stove with Two Soda Cans
Alcohol stoves use denatured alcohol for fuel and are very common with ultralight backpackers because of the huge weight savings. You can pay a pretty...
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Naturopathic Medicine For Disaster Preparedness
As I have said in several past articles, I have confidence that Americans can deal with short-term or regional/localized disasters. However, I stand with many...
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Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel
In late 2009 my boss plunked a book with a hazard-yellow cover on my desk and said, “This might interest you.” I didn’t know it...
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Becoming Self-Sufficient and Ten Ways to Get There
We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at large has undergone a similar transformation as...
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Convert Your Mower Into A Survival Generator
Spring is in the air and with it comes yard work. For some we have already started planting our gardens, others are tending to their chickens and...
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How To Test Your Family’s Survival Skills
Are you looking for a challenging way to put your family’s survival skills and teamwork to the test? Nothing will assess the grit and endurance...
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Preppers & Tin Hats
There’s a very old and astute adage by George Santayana stating: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. How many times...
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Food Storage: Knowing What You Have is More Important than Buying Something New
The other week I stopped and stared at my pantry. Looking in on all of the cans of food, bags of rice, beans and jugs...
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Grow Food All Year Long: Recycled Patio Door Greenhouse Project
In the 1960s, my father spit out the word “plastic” as if it were poison. To him, anything made of a substance other than real...
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Survival Basics – Water
One, if not the most important aspect of Emergency Preparedness to get right is developing a plan for how you will obtain water. You simply...
