Going Off Grid? How to Prepare for Your First Year
If you’re looking to start your first off-grid homestead, try to keep your expectations in check. It could take years for you to
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Water
Smart Survival: This is How You Find Water When There Is None To Be Found
With water being one of your main survival priorities, you want to know multiple ways of procuring water in an emergency situation. Knowing
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How to Grow Tomatoes
You can’t beat the flavour of home-grown tomatoes straight from the vine – and they’re so easy to sow & grow! Simply choose
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The $50 disaster prep you definitely need, but likely don’t have.
When it comes to storing items at home to ready your family for a potential large scale disaster (or worse), the first thing
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Basic Survival Skills
There is so much information on basic survival skills that you might be asking “Where to start?” Here are 6 primary components of
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Urban Gardening: Grow Anywhere!
Just because you live in an apartment, does not mean you have to live without the joys of fresh, homegrown garden vegetables. There
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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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Making a Raised Bed Garden
Soil in a raised bed can drain sooner and warm up faster in spring, enabling you to plant earlier in the season. You
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Composting the Easy Way
Having an ample supply of good rich compost is the gardeners dream. It has many uses, and all of those uses will result
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DIY MRE Alternatives
MRE’s enjoy unending popularity within prepper folds, although sometimes the issues – weight, waste, size, and expense – lead us to looking for
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10 Health Benefits of Sea Salt
Sea salt contains the essential trace minerals that your body needs in order to stay healthy. Learn about the 10 health benefits this
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The Benefits of Hydroponic Gardening: An Infograph
In the aftermath of a event where going outdoors could be dangerous or life threatening, this gardening technique could be your lifeline for
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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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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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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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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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This 54-Year-Old Woman Was Kicked Out Of Her House For Living Off-Grid
Robin Speronis has gained national notoriety for her highly public battle to live off-grid. Although it’s impossible to be certain, it is estimated
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6 Ways to conserve water and money when watering your garden
You might think that there’s nothing in this world simpler than watering a garden plant. However, there actually are proper ways to water
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10 Best Water Filtration Systems … and Terrorist Dangers to Our Nation’s Water Supply
How Safe is Our Drinking Water Supply? By now it’s pretty clear that our drinking water supply isn’t always safe and faces many
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How to Purify 12 Gallons Of Water A Day WITHOUT Filters or Electricity
If you are like me, and you worry about the life span of your water filters in a collapse situation, and how you’ll
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America’s silent crisis: Drinking water may become too expensive for millions of households in the future
Imagine a world where drinking water becomes inaccessible for thousands of people. A disturbing picture, but one that researchers from the Michigan State
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8 Basic Survival Skills That You Ought To Know
A lot of preppers do not possess the proper skills for surviving in case of any natural disaster even though it is essential
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Choosing the Right Batteries for Your Off Grid Retreat
When most folks first consider living off grid, they often find themselves in a little over their heads. Self sufficiency is not something
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Why Is the German Government Telling People to Stockpile Food, Water, and Cash?
The government of Germany is advising citizens to get prepped. Increased terror attacks from refugees have put the country on high alert, and
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