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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5 Homesteading Skills We All Need
When I grew up, we didn’t live in a world of abundance and high technology. My dad was a construction worker, and my
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How to Make a Simple Root Cellar
Squirrels may ravage my garden, but I do appreciate their ability to store for winter. My ancestors did too–storing their harvest in self-dug
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22 Foods That Will Last FOREVER!
There are many foods that, if stored properly, will last forever, or at least longer than you will. The following list of 22
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5 Classic Fall Recipes That Can Be Made Healthier
There’s something about the cooler fall weather that makes my family want to huddle up indoors and eat sweets. Humans are likely programmed
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4 Invaluable lessons from the Great Depression you need to remember
The Great Depression was a low point in our history (pun intended), but in our collective experience of it, there are life lessons
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Saltwater Battery Can Power Your Off Grid Home For 10 Years
This new battery runs on saltwater and can power your home for nearly 10 years (3000 days/nights). The best thing is it’s safer
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Off grid living: Grow 25 pounds of sweet potatoes in a bucket
Although sweet potatoes are an important staple food for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, this versatile, orange root tuber can be added to many
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