Some posts may contain affiliate links. Edibles That Can Be Grown Indoors This Winter We don’t quit eating during the winter months. Why should we stop gardening for the winter? Today’s post is about the edibles that can be grown indoors and throughout the winter. This is economically beneficial for those who live off their gardens. And if in …
Category: Hunker Down Prepping
Survival Skills Bucket List
Survival Skills Bucket List None of us are experts on everything. Anyone who claims to be is not being honest with themselves or you. There are basic skills that will be required in order to stay alive during a disaster scenario. They aren’t the most difficult ones to master but do require practice like anything …
25 DIY Survival Items
25 DIY Survival Items When I first read the featured blog, I thought “oh no, they are going to tell me being a gear junkie is a bad thing!” 😛 But mercifully they didn’t. The blog actually talks about necessary survival items you can make yourself. Basic supplies that many of us stockpile. If you make these …
Survival Crops That Grow Without Irrigation
Survival Crops That Grow Without Irrigation One of the worries in a survival scenario is the ability to acquire enough of the proper food supplies to maintain good health. A way of doing that is of course to grow your own survival crops. However, every living thing requires water to thrive. In a number of SHTF …
Should You Worry About Marauders?
Should You Worry About Marauders? (3 links) Most of us heard about Tyler Smith and his group of marauders who call themselves Spartan Survival a few years ago when the National Geographic Channel was running its series ‘Doomsday Survival’. Personally I was not a fan of the show. They of course were looking for entertainment …
Traveling Through Hostile Environments
Traveling Through Hostile Environments Whether you plan to bug in or out travel in hostile territory is going to be a factor. If you bug in you maybe able to avoid the worst of it as others are attempting to get out right then too. But you will have to eventually venture out to scavenge, …
Preppers and Homeschooling
Preppers and Homeschooling (2 links) We prep to insure the quality of life for ourselves and our families. This includes both the younger generation here now and those yet to come. You may not be planning on adding a child to your family today. But the family you do have will grow up and eventually …
6 Survival Tips Being Overlooked That’ll Result in Consequences Later
6 Survival Tips Being Overlooked That’ll Result in Consequences Later Every prepper, homesteading, and survival site gives tons of tips every day. We look them over and then tuck them away in the back of our minds. We hope we will never need them and took a look at them in the first place just …
Can Prepping and the Golden Rule Co-Exist?
Can Prepping and the Golden Rule Co-Exist? On many occasions prepper sites and blogs speak to the issue of what to do with the unprepared that can and probably will show up on our door steps after a major SHTF event. Often the answer is to turn them away. At the same time many of …
37 Creative Storage Ideas
37 Creative Storage Ideas Never ever have enough storage space? No worries you aren’t alone no one does. It does seem that no matter how much space you had when occupying a particular home, you manage to fill it and need more! Being a prepper or just self-sufficient means you probably store more than does …