Wall Gardens Maximize Growing Space Many many of us don’t have a lot of space for gardens and even those that have large gardens can often misjudge how much they would need to feed their families when or if the local market could no longer provide supplemental foods. Wall gardens could be the answer to …
There is Always a Weaknesses in Your Defenses No thing nor person is perfect or 100% reliable. We see this with all kinds of scams… as soon as a new security measure is in place to protect people from them, another scam comes out either avoiding the security method or finding a kink in it’s …
Smart Strategies For Keeping A Low Profile During SHTF After the initial event, after the immediate chaos, you may want to become the go to guy. That is a personal choice completely dependent upon your unique personality, skills and situation. But during the event and immediately after, the last thing you want to do is …
What You Need to Know About Hunkering Down Many of us have a plan to bug in or hunkering down in place. But do we really know what that entails? Imagine being confined to just your property or a portion there of for months at a time. Are your resources renewable? Are you prepared for …
Ideas for Your Storm Room Storm rooms are becoming more and more popular. They are now included in new builds and being added to existing homes and businesses. They aren’t really a new fad, but rather the re-emergence of the old fashion storm shelter in a new form. Now they are actually inside the home …
Pandemic Protections If you are a fan of TWD (A popular USA zombie television series – The Walking Dead) you know what would be the worst pandemic scenario! Now we rationally know that a pandemic of any kind isn’t going to create zombie beings. However, if you have seen what the end stages of an …
Coming To My House When SHTF Happens? We Need To Talk… We all hear that phrase “I know where I am coming if SHTF” mostly joking but truly not. They are actually quite serious. They don’t believe there is going to be a SHTF event serious enough for them to actually prepare their own homes. …
7 Critical and Specific Components of a Prepared Home This article is more about preparing the specifics of the family in the home than the house, after all isn’t it the family that makes the house a home? The whole point of preparedness is to preserve the lives of ourselves and families as well as …
Incubating and Hatching Eggs I did this on a very small scale as a kid and hatched a single egg and recall it was an awesome thing to watch. Incubating and hatching eggs isn’t child’s play however. For today’s homesteaders and even those who have a back yard coop each egg is an investment. After …
Accurately calculate how much food you need for SHTF We are given estimates on how much food we need to store per person for a SHTF event. But have you really looked at the serving size on some foods? I was looking at the serving size on a bottle of salad dressing the other day …
