MIY Honey Moonshine Whether you enjoy a nip or two or not, learning to make your own moonshine is a good SHTF skill to learn. There will always be people willing to barter goods and services for it, it can be used to quicken the wine making process for your own enjoyment or trade, and it can …
MIY Powdered Eggs Eggs are literally the glue of baked goods and an excellent source of protein. Unless you have your own livestock and assuming your livestock survived whatever disaster scenario has befallen you, they will become more difficult to obtain. Choices may also have to be made egg vs chicken if things get difficult enough. The …
Boiling Water in a Plastic Bottle I would never have thought to boil water in plastic! The video below shows it can indeed be done. But it claims to make the water safe to drink. I wonder about that! We are told that these bottles left in a vehicle in the heat can cause the plastic …
Awesome Uses For Drinking Straws A straw as a survival item? Yes! There are actually tons of uses for a drinking straw besides drinking out of them. Watch the video below to see some of the unusual ways an ordinary drinking straw can be used. Then let us know if you have additional uses that …
Disaster Aftermath: What to Expect and How to Prepare Statistically the majority of the population is not ready for any disaster lasting over 72 hours! Not that most are actually prepared for the 72 hours but can hold out that long before the fear and desperation factors begin to set in. Once they bulk of …
Evolving As a Prepper We all followed our unique paths to becoming homesteaders, off gridders, and/or preppers. For some it was seeking a simpler more self-sufficient lifestyle, some of us just wanted out from under the big corporations and the ever concern of the grid collapsing, and the majority of us because we either witnessed …
Vantablack: Synthetic Black Hole Material Vantablack is a synthetic material that absorbs 99.965% of light. Which basically means it makes whatever it covers almost totally invisible to the human eye! The uses are uncountable! Pictured is crumpled aluminum foil, which appears even to the camera lens to be a black hole in the aluminum hiding the …
Why Your 72 Hour Bag is Urgent! Although the 72 hour bag may be “old” news to long term preppers, for new comers a list for the 72 hour bag is a great help as a starting point. For those who have been prepping for longer periods of time a refresher is always appropriate! We need to …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Edible Cactus Health Benefits & Recipes Foraging isn’t just for the woods! Desert plants can be nutritious and edible as well. The most common of those is the cactus. The edible cactus has been on the menu in many countries for years but it only in recent years gained …
Homemade Dry Dog Food If you want to save money now on dog food, make sure your pet has a supply during a SHTF event, have your pooch on a special diet or just want to make sure your best friend eats healthier this recipe is for the dog lover! My own little guy won’t …
