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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
How to Keep Your Money Safe for When SHTF
Ask any financial planner, and they'll say you will have at least enough money to cover expenses worth three months. That is before you...
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
3 Ways to Open Locked Doors During a Disaster
Opening doors is more than just a metaphor for moving forward. Sometimes, you truly need to open a door. And sometimes that door is...
Things I Wish I Knew About Prepping When I Started Out
In 2001, I was in my office at work and watched in horror with my colleagues as the second plane hit the towers and...
How to Make Your Own Solar Stove
Making yourself a solar stove is an easy way to save money on your electricity bill. It uses the heat from the sun and...
7 Primitive Cooking Methods You Still Need to Know Today
Men and women knelt over fires long before we had pots and pans, and used what nature offered to bring food on their table...
The Lost Pioneer “Flu Shot”
Are you familiar with camphor and the healing properties of this essential oil?
Used for its medicinal and aromatic properties since time immemorial, camphor's health...
On the Many (28) Survival Uses of Tallow
Personally, I think that tallow is one of those things capable of making your stomach spin like a washing machine. I really don’t have...
Back to the Future – How to Reuse Old CDs
Ever since mom and dad bought my very first computer back in the odd ‘90s, I sort of become a hoarder of everything related...
How to Grow and Dry Your Own Herbs
As a new gardener, I often found the task of growing prize-winning tomatoes and succulent melons very daunting. Can I say succulent melons here?...
BUG OUT
Prepping Your Car for Emergencies
An emergency can strike at any place and at any time, which is why it is essential
always to stay prepared and have some emergency...


SUPPLIES
The Best ORAC Foods to Stockpile
ORAC stands for ‘oxygen radical absorbance capacity.’ It is a measuring unit that determine a specific food's antioxidant ability. The more antioxidants a food...
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...