How do you start to prepare for the end of the world as you know it? Do you start saving all the water you can, or maybe lining your shelves with canned goods? Maybe you should buy some guns and get ready to protect your homestead against rioters. If you’ve watched “Doomsday Preppers” or other …
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The Food Dilemma: Are You Prepared?
We live in an amazing time. Just about anything you could want is at your fingertips. We go to one store to buy all our food and supplies and drive them home in our trucks, cars, and SUVs. This has been the way the world has worked for as long as most of us can …
Why Fear and Prepping Don’t Mix
There’s a reason people say “don’t look down” when climbing. It’s a simple trick to not let fear interfere with your actions and to help you keep a level head. People that are outside of the prepping world often look at survivalists and peppers with the idea that they are a fearful group. What else …
How to Get Kids Involved in Prepping and Survival
Getting an adult family member on board with prepping should be pretty easy. While it might take some time to convince your significant other that the bunker you want to build is totally worth it, the basic idea of getting someone you live with into the prepper mindset should be relatively simple. The same cannot …
Hiking Essentials That Double as Bug Out Bag Accessories
Prepping doesn’t have to be all work and no play. Part of preparing to be self-sufficient is learning to enjoy the things you may be forced to do at some point. This means shooting, fishing, hunting, and hiking. While most people focus on the shooting and fishing aspects of this, hiking is an often-overlooked aspect …
The Myths Around ‘Preppers’ & Disaster Preparedness
We live in a world where civilization, reason and logic are said to be at historic heights, yet so many people today, especially our youth, are making new lows in relevant intelligence and labor under a host of myths and illusions. A few of the myths and misconceptions relate to disaster preparedness and ‘Preppers’. …
5 Multi-Tools to Trick Out Your Every Day Carry
An essential part of any Every Day Carry (EDC) setup is the quintessential multi-tool. Small yet powerful, multi-tools pack a lot of function into a very small package to make sure you’re ready for whatever the world throws at you. Most multi-tools contain needle nose pliers, a wire cutter, a knife blade, and an assortment …
FEMA / RED CROSS & DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Over the past few months, I have heard the Red Cross in Southern Oregon providing ‘advice’ to radio listeners on one or more radio stations. In the radio announcement, they are providing preparedness information about the predicted 9+ earthquake that occurs off the Northern California-Oregon coast every 300-350 years, and is expected to hit anytime …
The Principles of Prepping
When you think about prepping, are there specific images that come to mind? You might envision stores of food and supplies stashed away in someone’s basement or spare bedroom. You might even think about those who plunder stores in the wake of an oncoming storm. Preppers themselves might come across as a little bizarre to …
5 Food Storage Mistakes to Fix Right Now
One of the most important pieces to the prepping puzzle is making sure you have enough food to get you and your family through an emergency. Whether it’s a snow storm that cuts you off from the grocery store for a few days, an earthquake that can cut you off for weeks, or a true …