Growing your own groceries is the best way to be both food secure and know that your family is ingesting healthy food. Investing time in growing and raising your own food, coupled with stocking up on long-term storage food is worth both the time and funds dedicated to the preparedness task. When disaster strikes, …
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Top 20 Bandana Survival Uses
Your bugout bag, INCH bag, or get-me-home bag should not resemble Mary Poppins’ purse. The bottomless pit the British nanny packed around would be way too heavy to carry in real life. Miss Poppins may have subscribed to the prepper “one is none” mantra, but the beloved caregiver certainly did not consider the dual-purpose nature …
3 Survival Skills Learned from NASA
Recently I finished the book “The Martian” by Andy Weir. In it, a man named Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his fellow crew mates escape a disastrous storm in which they believe him to be dead. I don’t want to ruin the story for you, but that’s the basic idea. The rest of the book …
Yard Sales Finds Every Prepper Should Add To Their Shopping List
Prepping is more often than not done on a shoestring budget, or at least a rather small budget consisting of the flexible funds left over from the weekly paycheck. Self-reliant folks are very good at stretching their dollars to build what they need themselves or searching out bargains to satisfy the survival checklist. Yard sales …
Skills Versus Stuff: What’s Better?
So what’ll help you more in an emergency: skills or stuff? If you need to start a fire, what’s better to have with you, the tools to easily start a fire or the knowledge of 20 different ways to get it lit? Should you know how to hunt, fish, forage, and basically make food, or …
Top 20 Dental Floss Survival Uses
Making sure that your bugout bag and EDC (every day carry) kit has everything you need to survive if disaster strikes is a daunting task, to say the least. Re-evaluating the items in out BOB bags, INCH bags, or get home bags on a regular basis — and making sure we know how to fully …
Summer Survival Skills – It’s A Great Time To Practice Your Preps!
Summer is not only a time for BBQs, baseball games, and trips to the beach. The most glorious months of the year are also a perfect time to practice your preps. Getting the entire family involved in SHTF drills and enhancing your physical readiness can be both a fun and potentially life-saving endeavor. Prepping isn’t …
Survival First Aid – What To Do When Bitten By A Snake After The SHTF
Summer is finally upon us. Millions of Americans are enjoying the great outdoors or tending their crops and likely just a few feet away from a snake at any given moment. Snakes terrify many people unnecessarily. They are really more afraid of us than we are of them. Seriously folks, they are not lying in wait for human …
Food Preservation Tips That Will Protect Your Survival Garden And Meat Supply
Survival food is always near the top of any prepper “must have” list. Growing and raising your own food as well as watching for great deals on long-term storage food are common and potentially life-saving preparedness activities. Learning how to preserve your garden crops and livestock offerings will help stretch your prepping budget dollars and …