Butchering Basics for Survival Even vegetarians need more protein than we can normally get from plants. In normal times if we choose not to eat meat, we can fairly easily obtain non-meat foods with additional protein and supplements that can assist in staying healthy. After a SHTF scenario that won’t be so easily done. Everyone will …
Hand Powered Deep Water Pump In times of drought even our own home dug water wells can go dry! The deeper you dig your well the more likely you are to be able to keep the water flowing. But another fact of water wells is that the deeper you go down the more power is …
DIY Mini Bio-gas Unit You can produce your own cooking gas from your cooking waste! What an awesome way to recycle those kitchen scraps. garden waste and a bit of the organic materials left behind by your animals with the exceptions of bones, onions and egg shells just about anything organic in nature can be used. …
Healthy Herbs You Can Grow Yourself If you don’t have Garden space, or it’s late in the year, you will find that it’s not that hard to grow healthy herbs in your home. In addition to flavoring up your favorite dishes, herbs are filled with antioxidants and essential nutrients. “Half of the nutritional value of …
Primitive Traps & Snares In a long term SHTF scenario we have to be prepared to do without the modern technology of today. Human’s existed long before supermarkets, butcher shops and restaurants. We can find nutrition in the plants and trees around us and even set up a garden or on a larger scale a farm …
DIY Box Traps Traps of any kind will be needed in a long term SHTF event. No wasting ammo and after setting the trap you are free to go about other chores that will have to be done until the trap has done it’s job and you have captured prey. There are kill traps, however …
Survival uses for Leaves When in a survival situation everything around you if you are creative can become a survival tool. Even the leaves right off the trees and plants around you. In the Polynesian Islands cooking with leaves is a very common practice. Spinach and Taro are the most commonly used and serve both as …
Fortify Your Home – Bugging In So you’ve determined it is in your and your family’s best interests to bug in and hunker down. Now you need to prep your home to do so. No home is fortified for survival purposes by your average builder! Unless you can do the plans and building yourself, your home …
Ditch The Rule – What & Why What you are looking at in the picture above could be considered an EPA protected waterway. No, I am not kidding this farmer’s crop ditches do fall under the proposed changes to the EPA ‘s 1972 Clean Water Act. So do your coy ponds, the water reservoirs created on your private property, …
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