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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
7 Ways To Repurpose A Beer Can
Fact: there’s no limit to what you can with a beer can. Why? Simply because it’s called a beer CAN, not a beer CAN’T....
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 Build a BOB for Under $500/$750/$1000
As a prepper, you’ve more than likely heard about what a bug out bag is (and why it’s important). For those of you who...
DIY $20 Survival Food Bucket
If you’re just getting started with your food preps, a homemade $20 emergency food bucket is a great way to put up a lot...
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...
30 Remedies for Cracked Heels
If your skin gets super dry, then it might lead to cracking, and this can be quite uncomfortable. Cracked skin can lead to cuts...
How to Make Shotgun Shells at Home? (With Pictures)
A common example of a smoothbore firearm is the modern shotgun, but there are also shotguns fitted with rifled barrels designed to shoot sabot...
Turning Flour into Hardtack Biscuits With Over 100 Year Shelf Life
Why store flour (max shelf-life 1 year) when it can be made into Hardtack Biscuits that will last forever.
For centuries, hardtacks were the key...
BUG OUT
32 Foods for Your Bug Out Bag
Food is one of the crucial items for your bug out bag and INCH bags. It seems as if you typically find the same...
SUPPLIES
Top 10 Foods to Grow for Survival
If the collapse happens and you are in survival mode, your long-term food requirements must be taken into consideration. Finally, whatever food you have...
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...