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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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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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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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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29 Essential Tips for the New Prepper: “Start Small. Develop Your Skills. Create a Plan”
Whether you are just starting out with prepping and are figuring out what to focus on first, or whether you are a veteran
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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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5 Easy Ways to Start a Fire Using Water
Starting a fire with water may seem counterintuitive, but water is actually a very useful tool for starting fires in emergency situations if
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SHTF Survival: 10 Survival Tools That Should Be In Your Survival Pack
Let’s be honest, survival is not something you want to gamble your life on. Meeting your basic needs during a disaster is key to
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Barter will become the new economy after the global financial collapse, so make sure you have plenty of these items
Following the global collapse of the world’s financial system, which no one knows when will happen but many believe is inevitable given the
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6 Inexpensive Skills Every Prepper Needs
Take a second and think if there is anyone you know who has loads of supplies packed in their home. Now ask yourself
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FAT GUYS IN THE WOODS: BLOG SKILL SERIES: Become a Fire Walker – Apache Match
You’ve probably noticed that I’ll often send the guys off on the morning of their solo day with some kind of fire carry
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How to Survive Anything in 3 Easy Steps
You can have enough food to ride out 15 years of Armageddon. You can have a fully stocked retreat or a bunker. You
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Canning – a must have prepper shtf skill
Canning – a must have prepper shtf skill Canning is really one step beyond cooking. It is a method that applies heat to
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10 Ways to Improve Your Technical Skills
In 10 Reasons to Develop Your Technical Skills, I explained why it’s important to develop your technical skills as an integral part of
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