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How These Elections Will Affect Preppers
There was never a time when emergency preparedness was on the minds of so many Americans. In fact, you might argue that the world's...
The Police and Military when SHTF – Friend or Armed Foe?
It is difficult to plan to live in a post-SHTF environment. More than anything, we have to know we're making blind plans. We don't...
PREPAREDNESS
HOMESTEADING
ECONOMICS
When Markets Crash, Who Is To Blame?
After a certain length of time examining history in-depth, anyone who is honest and relatively objective comes to understand that most of what we...
SHTF
How to Use Acorns as Survival Food
Spring's fresh growth attracts aphids in their thousands-sucking plant life, stunting their growth. Fortunately, aphids love new nettle shoots, which has many benefits for the garden – meaning you can use them as sacrificial...
How to Consume Oak – Nature’s Powerhouse
Man is inextricably tied up with the great oak tree and its many varieties. In the most bleak times of our early history and even in more recent years, this great tree has given...
REMEDIES
9 Natural Remedies for Faster Wound Healing
We can all agree that as we age our skin goes through a lot. In fact, some of us have the scars, wounds, and blemishes to prove it! Maybe an old scar from a...
Just Like Doxycycline: The Antibiotic That Grows in Your Backyard
Overuse of antibiotics has been a cause of much concern in recent years and the dangers that overuse can bring, even to a normally safe person. While prescription antibiotics certainly have their place and...
DIY
DIY Wilderness Soap And Shampoo From This Plant
It’s easy to focus on the major needs when talking about survival. Food, water, fire, and a few other things get a lot of...
Salad Dressing – DPN Recipe
Making your own salad dressing is a quick and easy way to be completely self-sufficient. These three recipes include universal classics and one interesting...
How To Make Yeast For Long-Term Storage
Yeast has long inhabited the planet Earth, a simple, hundreds of millions of years old organism. It plays a vital role in alcohol creation,...
To Bleach Or Not To Bleach
There is some debate surrounding bleach in the prepping community. Bleach is a powerful cleaning agent; which can even be used to purify water;...
How to Build a Smokehouse In Your Backyard (with Pictures)
One of the best and tastiest ways to conserve meat is to smoke it. The meat is delicious, and if you keep it in...
How To Get Power Anywhere!
Portable Energy Storage Systems
We recently wrote of batteries for electric devices, the value of rechargeable, assuming a reliable power source, as well as home...
10 Reasons Why You Need to Make Room for the God of Fungi in...
The God of Fungi, also known as Reishi mushrooms, boasts a abundance of nutrient-rich compounds and takes up an incredibly limited amount of space...
How to Plan The Perfect Bug-Out Location
This piece is meant to stimulate thought and action toward having a place to retreat to if the time comes. I know everybody is...
BUG OUT
26 Uses for Bandanas in a Survival Situation
Bandanas are an amazing survival tool with literally hundreds of uses. They are perfect for stockpiling and for packing in all of your bug...
SUPPLIES
15 Vegetables You Can Plant In The Fall
The secret to a fall garden is to be thinking about it in the early Spring. Succession planting, companion planting, and timing of a...
GEAR
12 Things You Forgot to Add to Your Stockpile
Building a survival stockpile is a never-ending task. No matter how much you have, it always seems there’s something more to add. Stockpile a...
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...
8 Silent Weapons To Have Against Intruders
Generally speaking, protecting your home and family is a very important activity, but today it seems to be more important than it has ever...
PLANTS
Delicious Recipes Using Cattails – “The Supermarket of the Swamp”
Cattails (Typha latifolia) are among Earth's most versatile plants. With good reason it is called the "Supermarket of the Swamp," because it can be...
DIY Mini Greenhouse For Year-Round Vegetables
To those with a love of growing plants or for those who enjoy living a healthy life with little to no effort, building your...
Post Apocalypse Gardening: Living From a Small Piece of Land in Tough Conditions
What do you do, in a world where you can’t go to the supermarket and pick up a can of Campbell’s Chunky Soup? Where...