DIY Wool Boots Not just cute and practical but because YOU made them inexpensive! Reason enough to learn how to make them today. Add that after a SHTF event there aren’t going to be BOGO sales or shoe repair shops, but you will still need to protect your feet and it becomes even more …
Famine Menu-Limited Storage Plan Again, we are using a phrase that appears to be an oxymoron. When there is famine how can you have a menu? Because you prepared! The menu featured in the linked article is a bare subsistence nutritionally balanced survival mode daily intake allowance. To stay alive, you must have fuel and …
Standing Your Ground Prepping Some of those who choose to have a bug in option as their plan A find they sometimes feel like the outcast within the prepping circles. They are called naïve by some, stubborn, and trapped by others. My personal stance is that if the SHTF event we are discussing is one that …
Your Trash is Talking (Video) One thing often overlooking when talking about and thinking about OPSEC is today’s trash. In normal times unless we are trying to live green and recycle etc… or the garbage men and women are on strike we don’t tend to consider our rubbish as a big deal. But when faced …
Alternatives to Potassium Iodide I personally can attest to the shortage of potassium iodide after the Japanese tsunami and the nuclear fallout disaster. Here on the west coast of the USA where it was coming ashore, you couldn’t find iodine anywhere in any form for months after. Then we had the North Korean threat of nuclear …
Flu Buster Stew We hear a lot of home remedies that people swear by. I have a few of my own. Some are passed down generation to generation. Some of those passed down have been looked at by medical researchers and found to actually have a medically valid mixture of ingredients that can help with …
Survive an Elevator Free Fall This SHTF event was brought to my attention by a reader. We don’t hear about nor see too many elevator accidents anymore, but when we do, they are horrific! When you look at it logically an accident in an elevator can’t help but be a disastrous event for anyone involved. …
Field Dressing a Deer Almost everyone who talks about post SHTF food sources refers to foraging, gardening, and hunting. Hunting is not a pretty thing to see or do. It’s not a far-off shot and that is it, you go home and feed your family this foreign food that magically appears after the gun shot. …
A Working Urban Farm I have always wanted to do an urban homestead or farm. I just always assumed I didn’t have enough property to do so! Wow has this family showed me I was wrong. With great planning and creativity, they have turned 1/10th of an acre into a working farm in an urban area. …
Straw Bale Gardening Here is some info on this gardening method from a Joel Karsten out of Minnesota. From the pictures it looks like this works well. Looks like he puts about 3 inches of potting soil on top the Straw Bales to start Seeds in. Straw Bale Gardening is a simply a different type …
