4 Crucial factors that affect the shelf life of food in your survival stockpile
Building up a food stockpile is one of the basics of prepping. People who are new to the preparedness lifestyle may find the process
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Scientists successfully brew beer and mead using 5,000-year-old “resurrected” yeasts discovered in the Holy Land
Want to know what ancient Middle Eastern beer tastes like? Try asking this team of researchers from Israel: In a study published in mBio, microbiologists
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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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Top 10 Vegetables to Grow Over Winter
Don’t let your vegetable plot stand empty and neglected over winter. There are plenty of winter vegetables to grow throughout the coldest months.
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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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Prepare for Disaster with a Portable Generator
Living or working in a disaster-prone area always requires that you be prepared for the worst. When a natural disaster strikes, you might
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Nutritious Food Plants You Can Harvest Quickly
Admit it, we want things to happen fast. We’re a society of fast food, fast internet, and instant gratification. But when it comes
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10 Best Vegetables for Urban Gardeners
Before you know it, your urban oasis will be bursting with wholesome produce and you’ll wonder why you waited so long to start
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Alternative Cooking Sources for SHTF Planning
So, the power is out. You have all of this wonderful food stored away but no way to cook it. Before you resign
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The Case for Hybrid Seeds
Once we join this prepper culture, we start getting pushed toward heirloom seed stockpiles. There’s definitely value in heirloom and open pollinated. There’s
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Fermented Foods: And No, They Won’t Get You Drunk!
Fermented foods are a staple in many cultures and are one of the oldest preservation methods. The earliest evidence of winemaking dates back
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How to store meat long-term when living off-grid
Preppers know that there are several methods that can be used to prepare meat for long-term storage. However, canning is one of the
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Off-Grid Cooking: How To Smoke Fish
Over the years, we’ve talked at length on how fish are a great addition to your prepper food supply and taught you how to
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Canning Bone Broth
Homemade bone broth is packed full of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients which are excellent for boosting immune function and keeping your body strong
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Do you have a safe source of water for a SHTF situation? Top 5 water purification mistakes
erybody knows that you need water to live. Without it, you’d be pushing in as little as 72 hours. What isn’t as common,
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Curing and preserving meat in the wild: 5 different techniques
It’s always a good idea to brush up on your survival skills. You never know when your knowledge of fire making or foraging
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Grid Down: How to Get Water From Your Well When There is No Power
One of the problems faced with an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) is that your well will not be pumping water into your home. For
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How To Can Potatoes
Canning potatoes is my favorite method of preserving them for the following year. They taste amazing (much better than store bought canned potatoes),
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Survival Gardens: Bedding Down for Winter
First let’s give a nod at the growing zones that are just entering or hitting the main strides of their production seasons. Best
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How to Survive When You Can’t Pay Your Bills
Let’s talk about poverty. I don’t mean the kind you’re talking about when your friends invite you to go shopping or for a
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Trapping vs. Hunting-Post Apocalypse Survival
Trapping: getting past the first days of survival and into a more food-secure future Whether you have accomplished a pre-catastrophe relocation or evacuated
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10 Healing superfoods you can easily grow in your garden
The key to a healthy diet is within your reach. You don’t need to go far to get it – since all you’ll
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10 Dehydrator Meals for Your Prepper Pantry
In an effort to have some “just-add-water” meals planned for those emergencies that leave us with little to no warning, I have been
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One of the Most Undervalued Storable Survival Foods
Preparedness is more than a method of planning, it is a lifestyle. Long-term survival strategies are most effective when they are incorporated into
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