NEWS
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
For when SHTF, we all have our food storage. Without outside interference, some of us can survive on our supply for years. What happens, though, when our supply is threatened by an outside interruption? Hungry neighbors can try to force their way in to steal your surplus food in...
While most of the general population has been lulled into a false sense of security, bankers and tech executives are spending millions upon millions of dollars to prepare for the collapse of society. Do they know something that the rest of us do not? Apparently talk of doomsday scenarios...
As preppers and bushcrafters, we all know that guy. The one with every new gadget, clever tool and toy, but no real idea what he’s doing. Don’t be that guy. Having good equipment is important, but enough practice with the right skills will always make much more difference and eventually could even replace...
Why the Hygiene Focus?
There are a vast number of processes and systems in place to keep our dirt, trash, waste, and debris centralized. Literally, armies of people whose job it is to clean up the mess of humanity. After a collapse, those systems will come to a screeching halt.
You...
HOMESTEADING
ECONOMICS
20 Wal-Mart Facts That Will Shock You
America absolutely loves Wal-Mart. 100 million customers visit Wal-Mart every single week in this country. But is Wal-Mart good for America? That is a...
SHTF
Mistakes Made By Preppers and What to Do About Them
Being prepared is something that every single American really needs to be doing. There are approximately three hundred sixteen million people living in the United States today, and according to Google, about three million...
Medical Preparedness with Alternative Methods
In modern times we have become accustomed to medication and healing is only a phone call away. It wasn’t that long ago that we were much more vulnerable to disease. In 1800 43% of...
REMEDIES
How To Grow Your Own SHTF Pharmacy
Growing your own SHTF pharmacy, or perhaps more accurately, apothecary, should be near the top of your medical preps. You will not be able to call 911 or rush out to the emergency room...
Elderberries, Natural SHTF Flu Remedy
The flu can be deadly even before a SHTF disaster when modern medical care is still readily available. The 2017-2018 winter flu season has been the most deadly in several years.
Growing your own apothecary...
DIY
17 Survival Uses for Safety Pins
Did you know that before the Winchester repeating rifle was invented, Walter Hunt patented the “combined piston breech and firing cock repeating gun”?
Not only...
Can You Operate a Ham Radio Without a License?
A lot of people shy away from HAM radio because of the license. They either don’t want to take the time and effort to...
Top 10 Plants To Grow For Chicken Feed
You might want to consider supplementing your chicken feed with some great plants around your garden. Besides saving you money, these plants sampled here...
Review – HydroBlu Water Filters
Recent reviews have been a bit repetitious; no really innovative products or approaches. Recently; however; HyrdoBlu contacted me regarding reviewing their innovative product line. I picked...
Why You Should Build and Use a Root Cellar?
The American pioneers had to be very clever about food. The United States government was offering up 160 acres to the brave souls that...
How to Purify Water with Charcoal
You that shit really hit the fan and broke it when you have no other choice than to drink water out of muddy puddle...
Review – A Quick Battery Comparison and Cost
I’m sure there have been cost studies; but I am not aware of any. However; you can do a basic comparison on costs yourself....
DIY Dollar Store First Aid Kit
While everyone hopes that they’ll never need to break out a first aid kit, an event will inevitably arise that requires you to break...
BUG OUT
Healthy Habits For Outdoor Survival
There is nothing like the innate beauty of the wilderness, nature in its purest form, devoid of human interference, pristine and primordial. Sounds great,...
SUPPLIES
Foods You Should Never Can
There's a whole smorgasbord of food you can easily store with a pressure canner. Not everything, however, as a home-canned preserve, retains its 'safe...
GEAR
Using Airsoft For Prepper Training
One of my sheepdog goals this year is to become proficient with a handgun and to get my carry license.
I bought my first handgun a few...
Easy Wilderness Prepper Skills
No matter whether you're planning to go on a backpacking, hunting or camping trip. It’s a good idea to have some basic wilderness survival...
Why Every Prepper Needs a Speargun
If you’ve never thought about spearfishing, you’re in for a treat.
Because not only is it one of the most active forms of hunting on...
PLANTS
How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter
Taking a little effort now will ensure a bountiful growing season next spring. You will want to do a few things to get your...
What to Plant in March
March is the perfect time to get those tomato and pepper seeds started indoors ready for an early spring planting! Also, a great time...
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,...
LATEST ARTICLES
The Fourth “B” In Prepping
This is one of the least talked about subjects in open forums across the prepper-verse. I see YouTube videos of people's preps, but I do not see a lot of building up supplies for this. Yes, this is a natural thing that all animals...
How to Prepare Your Soil for Planting Tomatoes
It is every farmer’s dream to produce firm, sweet and blemish free tomatoes. However, just like vegetable farmers, tomatoes farmers face numerous disappointments such as poor quality, low produce, and diseases. Many of such factors are related to the soil quality, its nutritional level...
6 Things Preppers Often Don’t Do Enough
The first half of this year is almost over, which means millions of people are going to try to lose weight and get in better shape over the next few months. Sadly, most of them will fail. But if you’re a prepper, you can’t...
How to use Christmas to Get Your Friends and Family Into Prepping
Gathering together with friends and family during Christmas time can be a prime opportunity to introduce preparedness into their lives – or expand on a small interest in survival and the skills they already possess.
We can do far more than simply hand our loved...
Are You Really Prepared?
Is your family really prepared for an unexpected emergency? If something happened tonight, would you be ready?
A lot of preppers spend an awful lot of time doing things like stocking up food, storing and inventorying supplies, learning first aid and so on. Those are all good things...
Prepping for Long Distance Hikes
It’s easy to forget that a lot of bushcraft and survival skills practiced today, recreationally or as part of a survival/preparedness strategy, were once used extensively by explorers and adventurers on long-distance expeditions. These explorers had, in turn, learned many of those skills from...
