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How an Old Swimming Pool Feeds an Entire Family and Changes the Way We Look at Food

April 13, 2016tpd Comment

Follow me Drought, climate conditions, and pollution are major factors concerning agriculturists. Drought can be overcome with drought-resistant plants, climate-controlled environments can isolate [...]

16 Tips For Going Off Grid! Do What You Love and End Debt

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016tpd Comment

Follow me “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today [...]

Secret Stockpile: Your First Steps To a 1-Year Stockpile(While We Still Have Time)

April 8, 2016July 20, 2016tpd Comment

Follow me Secret Stockpile: Your First Steps To a 1-Year Stockpile (While We Still Have Time) Should you stockpile? Here is a complete [...]

4 Best Methods for Food Self-Sufficiency in a Small Space

April 7, 2016tpd Comment

Follow me For most of us producing all of our own food is just a fantasy. It evokes visions of multiple acres of [...]

Real Food Storage Ideas for Real Preppers

March 5, 2016tpd Comment

Follow me As you consider the following and plan your food storage, bear in mind that your survival in any scenario will have [...]

5 Ideal Weapons for Survival Situations

December 19, 2015December 19, 2015Bryan Wilde Comment

Follow me Completing any project requires tools. Survival is no different. In fact, it is a project that your life depends on. It [...]

Military surplus guns for when SHTF

December 11, 2015December 12, 2015Road Warrior Comment

Follow me Yeah, they’re ugly. Yeah, they’re generally old. Yeah, they’re sometimes pretty beat up. But the fact is that the military surplus [...]

Avoid The Lines – How to Store Fuel Long Term

December 4, 2015Pat Henry Comment

Follow me A generator without gas is like a rifle without ammunition. For this piece of machinery to be of any use to [...]

The Easy Way To Canning Meat Off Grid

November 26, 2015May 7, 2022Theresa Crouse 1

Follow me Though there are many different methods of preparing meat for long-term storage, without a doubt, canning it is the easiest way [...]

100-Year-Old Way to Filter Rainwater in a Barrel

November 19, 2015May 7, 2022tpd Comment

Follow me During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we [...]

The Top 10 Survival Supplies

October 30, 2015Mark Lawrence Comment

Follow me The Top 10 Survival Supplies The right survival supplies on hand can save your life in an emergency, offer protection from [...]

DIY Water Well in a Day

October 27, 2015May 7, 2022tpd Comment

Follow me For anyone lucky enough to have a shallow water table without bedrock, a do-it-yourself driven well saves thousands of dollars compared [...]

Growing Food For Survival In Small Places

October 22, 2015October 22, 2015Theresa Crouse Comment

Follow me Just because you live in an apartment or a small house with minimal yard space doesn’t mean that you can’t grow [...]

Grow Food All Year Long: Recycled Patio Door Greenhouse Project

October 19, 2015August 16, 2016Linda Holliday 1

Follow me In the 1960s, my father spit out the word “plastic” as if it were poison. To him, anything made of a [...]

Back To Basics: How To Make Rum At Home

September 22, 2015June 23, 2017Theresa Crouse 9

Follow me Ok, so this one is for those of you who just don’t want to spend life after SHTF without the occasional [...]

Tips for Starting an Aquaponics Garden

September 13, 2015May 7, 2022tpd Comment

Follow me Increasingly, people are looking for ways to have more control over the source of their food. They are also looking for [...]

Primitive Methods for Food Storage – Keys to Emergency Food Storage

September 9, 2015May 12, 2016Mark Lawrence Comment

Follow me Primitive Methods for Food Storage – Keys to Emergency Food Storage MREs and freeze-dried food should be part of every person’s [...]

Author Marjory Wildcraft Goes from Hong Kong Highrise to Texas Prepper

August 11, 2015August 11, 2015Linda Holliday Comment

Follow me Last summer, when a friend presented me with a set of author Marjory Wildcraft’s gardening DVDs, I thought I already knew [...]

1881 Cyclopedia Explains Composting Methods and Benefits

August 11, 2015August 11, 2015Linda Holliday Comment

Follow me When garden composting caught on in the early 1980s, I thought back to my mother sending us kids to the garden [...]

Secret Garden of Survival

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015Rick Austin Comment

Follow me How to Grow a Camouflaged Food-Forest Let’s say you survive The End Of The World As We Know It…and let’s say [...]

Emergency Supplies Essential to Surviving a Disaster

August 3, 2015August 3, 2015James Roberts and Mark Lawrence Comment

Follow me Emergency Supplies Essential to Surviving a Disaster Critical Emergency Supplies that Can Save Your Life. Be Prepared to Survive. What are [...]

Top 5 Swiss Army Knives for Survival

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015Chris Black 1

Follow me The Swiss army knife is more of a multi-functional tool than a regular knife; it’s actually THE quintessential multipurpose gizmo ever [...]

Survival Situation: Dog Gone Or Dog Stays?

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015Chuck Savage Comment

Follow me Many folks are debating whether it’s good to have a dog during a survival situation or not. For most dog owners, [...]

Back To Basics: How To Make And Preserve Pasta

July 29, 2015October 29, 2015Theresa Crouse Comment

Follow me There’s nothing more delicious and versatile that pasta. You can use it to make lasagna, spaghetti, macaroni and cheese or simple [...]