If You Only Had One Tool
What if you were suddenly overwhelmed by an event? An earthquake, a micro-burst along a lonely road that did in your vehicle, you
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Off-Grid
Home Cheese Making
Do you want to try your hand at some home cheese making but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck! Whether you’re
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Why This Superfood is a Must in Winter and How To Maximize its Benefits
Garlic is a superfood. It’s also delicious! If you love garlic, you’ll love the reasons you should be eating more of it especially
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How to grow herbs
Growing your own herbs is an easy and rewarding project . Herbs are easy to grow in beds, borders, containers, or on windowsills.
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Tracking, a Valuable Skill for Preppers
Tracking. Maybe you heard about it from your grandfather or father during hunting season. Or you noticed it in some scenes from The
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4 Sustainable Practices That Will Make Big Changes!
Whether we are climate change activists or skeptics, we can all agree that we should all be doing our part to leave our
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Get Me Home Bag
The Prepper Journal has many entries that discuss bugging out or hunkering down. This will not be another one. Not exactly, anyway. Let’s imagine you have a emergency
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Top 10 crops for pots
Growing your favourite crops in pots can turn even the smallest of spaces into a home allotment. Container gardening offers a world of
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5 Incredible Ways You Can Use Hemp
If there is such a thing as a wonder plant, hemp is it. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can
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How to Build a Simple Hoop House
The easiest way to protect your plants for the winter is to put them in a row, say 6 or 7 pots wide.
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Cattail Plants: Friend of the Forager, Bushcrafter, and Basket-Maker
Have you ever driven past a marsh, only to see a forest of tall stalks that seem to be topped with hot dogs?
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The 10 best egg-laying chickens for a prepper’s homestead
Keeping egg-laying chickens offers several benefits. They supply fresh eggs daily, eat insect pests, and make for a steady source of income by selling
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Tree Pruning Tips
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the
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Prepping 101 – The Ultimate Get Out Of Dodge Vehicle
As you begin to think about preparing your family for a survival type of scenario there are a lot of important considerations. Do
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5 Primitive Skills Preppers Should Know for Survival
To easily operate in an off-grid environment, learn old, forgotten skills and make them new for you. To acquire is good, to improvise
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Sustainable Prepping: 5 Alternative Energy Types for When the SHTF
There are actually a lot of different types of energy sources to tap into after a disaster strikes. One of the major differences
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Making Arrowheads: The Art of Flint Knapping
Flint knapping is the age-old art of making arrowheads and other edged stone tools. Hunter-gatherers relied upon this key wilderness survival skill to
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Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the garden, and
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Skills – Stuff: When Stuff Matters More
I generally agree with the premise that skills are far more important than stuff, and that knowledge weighs nothing. There are skills that
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Native American Basket Weaving
Native American basket weaving was practiced by many different tribes for various uses. They can be used for food gathering, processing hides, cooking,
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Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed
If you are preparing beds for landscaping around your house this article should simplify the process for you. I say that because of
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Four Pemmican Recipes
Are you looking for some excellent pemmican recipes? Wait, what is this thing called pemmican and where did it come from? For starters,
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Prepper Gardens – Vertical Expansion
There are lots of ways to produce food, herbs, and medicines, whether we have small properties with just a patio or deck, or
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From being expensive to labor-intensive, here’s the truth behind some of the myths about organic gardening
People who want to try out organic gardening may hesitate because of the negative things they may have heard or read about it.
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