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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
The Establishment Fuels False Hope
There is a notion within the mainstream media that certain economic indicators are unassailable; they never stop being reliable. The way they look at...
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
Your Great Depression Era Recipe for Hard Times
‘Good for what ails you,’ bone broth has been calming, nourishing and feeding people for thousands of years. During the Great Depression, which lasted...
BOB from the Dollar Store for $50
Let’s face it, prepping can be expensive. That one problem has kept a lot of people from prepping through the years. It also makes...
Mini-Farming on 1 Acre
Many people enjoy the concept of being self-sufficient in manufacturing, they really don't see that as an objective that can be accomplished. After all,...
Gardening For The Future – Hay and Straw Bale Gardening
This is the simplest and easiest method of gardening "no work," by far. You plant straw directly into bales, and as the season progresses,...
Make An Easy NO EGG Cornbread
I love a good cornbread fresh out of the cast iron skillet from time to time and today was one of those times. Problem...
Baking Soda Substitutes and How to Use Them
Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is a natural leavening agent (but not just) used in baking. This basically means that when mixed and baked, it...
Homemade Substitutes for Toilet Paper
When society collapses and the shelves in the grocery store are empty for an extended period of time, people will still have to use...
The Ultimate Suburban Homesteading Guide
Homesteading in the suburbs is not yet commonplace, but the practice is now deemed more socially acceptable and less frowned upon by at least...
BUG OUT
How to Find Your Way Out of the Wilderness: 3 Tips
Wilderness survival is a vast subject that few people ever truly master. Even certain subsets of this subject can be daunting. Fortunately; there are...


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...



































































