Clever Ways To Fish Without A Pole Fishing is a mainstay for almost all cultures and will be even more so after a SHTF event. Fish are a good source of both proteins and oils necessary for a balanced human diet. Before, during and after a crisis event fishing gear may not be available to …
Tick Borne ‘Powassan Virus’ Is Worse Than Lyme Disease (3 links) Lyme’s disease took years to diagnose and has been extremely difficult to treat for those infected. Depending upon the severity of the infection symptoms can be mild to life devastating. Now doctors are telling us that there is another tick-borne virus we should be aware …
Improve Your Rifle Marksmanship Practice makes perfect is what we are all taught when it comes to building a skill like marksmanship. However, before you begin practicing make sure you are doing it correctly to start. You want to make sure that you aren’t honing the incorrect method which could cost you later. The featured …
Survival Tools You Should Own We assume that you already have the basic home tools i.e., a hammer, nails, a wrench or two etc… So, the tools discussed in the featured article are more for the bug out prepper and for use in bush type locations. These particular 7 tools have been chosen by marines …
Store Fresh Vegetables For Months Just about anyone can dig a hole. place a cover on it and call it a root cellar! But in order for it to work as a root cellar and keep our fresh vegetables stored safely for months it requires a little more than that. Humidity, temperature. air circulation, and …
Edible Landscaping We can’t all be homesteaders and some of us can’t even be true outdoor gardeners either. There are space limitations, time management limitations, and even HOA limitations. But the majority of us even those that rent do have the ability to contribute to the landscaping of the property in pots or in the …
Evaptainers Off Grid Cold Storage Unless you end up near a cold river after a SHTF event cold storage will be harder to do than will be heat based storage like dehydrating, canning, and cooking. Fire is easier to make off grid than is ice! But this evaptainer can change that. It works using only …
Auto Batteries For Off Grid Energy Storage I confess to having been careless and allowing my cell phone battery to die on more than one occasion. I didn’t actually learn my lesson until it died in the middle of a storm which had taken down my household’s electricity. No outlet to plug it into and …
Crossing a River Safely Whether you are a hunter, hiker, fisherman/woman, camper, or in a bug out situation, eventually you will come across a river. Most of us plan to seek out a water source in any emergency scenario. Rivers may appear to be calm and of little or no depth of consequence and still be …
2 DIY Trip-line Alarms (2 links) Trip-lines have been used forever as a security method. I would assume that it was the basis for the motion detecting lazar alarms of the high-end alarm systems today. Many of us can’t afford these high-tech systems and in a SHTF event or if you are off grid now, …
