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Build Your Own Raised Garden Beds
Build Your Own Raised Garden Beds For space saving and high yields, it’s hard to beat a vegetable garden grown in raised beds. Raised beds can improve production as well as save space, time, and money. They also are the perfect solution for… dealing with difficult soils such as heavy clay and can improve your …
Weekend Projects For Preppers
Weekend Projects For Preppers Buzz Feed provides us with 11 weekend projects recommended by the Mountain Man. Some of these projects are ones that can be done at home, but most require you get out of the chair and get out there and try them! I grew up in Minnesota and I have to admit that …
46 Tips to Make Your Dollar go Farther
46 Tips to Make Your Dollar go Farther A penny saved is a penny earned was never truer than in today’s economy. Lots of people are beginning to understand that concept with DIY projects, couponing, energy conservation, and creating power alternatives. Making your own products (MIY) is another way to save a dollar! Every journey for anything starts with the …
10 Tips to Stop Wasting Water
10 Tips to Stop Wasting Water Water is the most precious resource to life on earth. Everything that lives or grows requires some sort of water. It is one of the first utilities that are knocked out during a disaster and the one that we most prep for knowing that without it we die. We …
Are You a Prepper?
Are You a Prepper? We have described prepping as having quality of life insurance. Our purpose being to insure that we, our families, our groups, and our communities not only survive a disaster whether it be man made or natural. Are we what is traditionally considered a prepper? To learn what can define you as …
Growing Your Vegetables Organically
Growing Your Vegetables Organically If you would like to grow your Vegetables Organically, this information will help you. One of the things you need to do is to select plants for your garden that will help control insect pests. Certain plants either invite beneficial insects or repel harmful insects. Beneficial insects’ prey on pests that cause …
DIY Vodka and Survival uses for Alcohol
DIY Potato Vodka and Survival uses for Alcohol Whether you enjoy an occasional cocktail or not, learning how to make your own vodka or other spirits can be a handy survival skill. After the dust settles in a SHTF scenario it becomes an awesome barter item. Not just for those that want to drink it …
Creative Survival – 37 Survival Hacks
Creative Survival – 37 Survival Hacks All humans and even the ultra-responsible prepper want the magic tool, gizmo or key piece of information that will ensure that they and those they care about will survive any SHTF event that could possibly befall them. However, Murphy’s law doesn’t stop applying because the world as we know it has …
DIY Root Cellar
DIY Root Cellar It wasn’t too long ago that every home had a root cellar. Before supermarkets and electronic cooling, a root cellar was how people stored their garden goods for the year to come. They had the dual purpose in some areas to serve as a storm shelter as well. Many of the self-sufficient …
How to Make Charcoal
How to Make Charcoal If there is a SHTF major event, the grid will go down and when or if it will be back up again is anyone’s guess. Old methods and skills will once again have new value. Making your own briquettes is one of those skills. It’s not as simple as just scooping up the …
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