All posts by Guest Contributor
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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....
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Household Survival – 15 Lifesaving Items You Probably Already Have
Many of us who are new to prepping become wrapped up in the things we don’t have. We scour the internet looking for prepper checklists...
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How to Maximize Crop Yields
Whether you want to make money from your yard, save money on groceries, enjoy foods you can’t easily buy, or simply get more out of...
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Alternative Energy Sources for Your Home
Yes, most of us depend on the local electric company for our energy needs. Not all of us even have the power to choose from...
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Paracord – NEVER leave home Without it!
NEVER! If there is one “miracle” survival product it is paracord. It can handle so many jobs, it can be packed efficiently, it can be used,...
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Building an Emergency Shelter from a Kit
The majority of Preppers are well equipped in survival skills, including finding food, keeping warm and making temporary shelters, but how many of you are prepared for...
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Must-Have Multipurpose Items for Your BOB
The list of items to pack in your bug out bag (BOB) can seem limitless. However, you cannot afford to pack all of them due...
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10 Things You Didn’t Know Were in Your Drinking Water
The most common substance in this world is water and therefore it is essential that we could say by default it is greatly important! We...
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Feeding the Beast During SHTF – Bread Options
A crisis of any scale is a tough time to either have to learn to do without, or create a lot of work for ourselves....
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5 Ways Prepping Can Save You Money
We’re by no means rich or even moderately well off, but we do believe strongly in living within our means. Granted, we’re probably not as...
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If There Is No Place Left To Hide: Why Bother Hiding?
Each day it seems we are greeted by another plan for government surveillance, under the guise of national security of course, in order to access...
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Will Our Digital Life Be The Key To Our Undoing?
Our world is becoming ever more electronic and digitized with each passing day. Every time we turn around, something that we used to have on...
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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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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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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 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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The Necessity of Liquidity in an Increasingly Cashless Society
I was taught all the values of saving money but it wasn’t exactly modeled for me. Consequently, I had to overcome some hurdles as I...
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Five Emergency Survival Tools
As preppers we strive to acquire skills, knowledge and yes tools that can assist us should we ever be faced with dire circumstances. The actual...
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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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11 Ways Your Prepping Skills Pay Off In Everyday Life
I used to think people who were constantly talking about government conspiracies, doomsday and all the other scare tactics were spouting wild theories. I still...
