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5 Reasons Why You Should Try Wild Lettuce
We all know about the dangerous side effects of over-the-counter and prescription painkillers. But when your head is pounding, it’s hard not to reach for...
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Build an Outhouse (Privy) with plans from 1909
Outhouse from the rear Besides taking for granted how simply water normally arrives into our homes, sometimes we also fail to consider how easily we...
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How to Build an Evaporative Cooler – Grid Down Air Conditioning
How to build a low-cost 12 volt evaporative cooler. My husband and I built two swamp coolers that we use to air condition our tent...
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Training Your Dog For Survival
There are millions of people out there who would never leave their dogs behind in any emergency situation if they can help it. That is...
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3 Questions Regarding the Prepping Movement
I was approached via email back in June of this year by a reporter in New York State who was covering a local story about...
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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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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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How to Maximize the Range of your Radios
If you collect any random group of radio owners together and ask them what they would most like to improve on their radios, the chances...
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One Size Doesn’t fit all when it comes to Prepper Plans
When we are planning for our family’s safety, preppers employ a wide spectrum of ideas, plans and approaches to getting their family out of danger...
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How to Build a Pickup Truck Sleeping Platform
Building a pickup truck sleeping platform can be very beneficial for, not only camping, but for use as a bug out vehicle. For those who...
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Top 10 Survival Skills for after the SHTF
If you have as one of your concerns a total collapse in society regardless of the reason, there are people out there who will tell...
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DIY Water Well in a Day
For anyone lucky enough to have a shallow water table without bedrock, a do-it-yourself driven well saves thousands of dollars compared to having a bored...
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What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us – Livestock Edition
Livestock keeping requires some research. It seems obvious, but it’s apparently not. It really merits researching in great depth, because there are a lot of...
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5 Skills And 5 Tools For Every Prepper
Who knows what could happen tomorrow? This is the philosophy that most preppers live by. No matter the situation, when danger suddenly appears, a prepper’s...
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Survival Fishing Kit: Worth the Time or Useless Gear?
Imagine a gathering of 10,000 preppers at a convention somewhere in the heart of Las Vegas and at that convention every single prepper had brought...
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13 Skills to Learn Now for Survival Later
Evaluating survival readiness takes more than just 13 questions. However these thirteen skills to learn in the areas of food, water, shelter, protection and communication...
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5 Affordable Steps You Can Take to be More Prepared
Oh, if I only had a million dollars I could purchase everything I think I could need if the grid went down for good. I...
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Six Primitive Traps For Catching Food In The Woods
If you do find yourself in the wilderness and need food, there are a lot of ways to fill the plate for dinner. Now, I...
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20 Edible Plants That Could Save Your Life
Sometimes, you have to think outside of the freeze-dried food paradigm. You may find yourself in the woods forced to run from your home or...
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How to Hunt Deer with a Bow Effectively
Deer hunting can be done in two ways; either by using rifles or using bows. If you are one of the many hunters who...
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12 Survival Items You May Have Overlooked
When we talk about survival, there are certain items that immediately come to mind. We start with the discussion of beans, bullets and band-aids. This...
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What you Should be Adding to Your Compost Pile
This guide will walk you through the basics of some simple ingredients you can add that will help take your compost to the next level....
