How to Know if There is a Fever Without a Thermometer Another shortage currently being experienced due to the virus is thermometers. If you didn’t have one before the breakout you will have a hard time finding them now. In any emergency scenario a thermometer may not be your first thought for survival equipment! That …
DIY CDC-Compliant Face Masks for Personal Use or Donation Right now the world is experiencing a shortage of a number of medical supplies necessary to fight the Covid 19 virus and help curb it’s spread. Many of these shortages are for things that we as individuals can’t do much about like respirators. However, there …
How to Be Self-Sufficient While Living in a City A self-sufficient lifestyle is much easier to obtain in a rural area. That is a fact that we as a society know well. As our population moved toward urban life too many forgot the basic aspects of self-reliance. Closeness to shops, restaurants, and the workplace became …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Should Children Be Taught How To Grow Food As Part Of Their Schooling? Growing food is a bit more complicated than tossing a few seeds in the dirt and adding water now and again. Preppers and homesteaders know this, but does the majority of the population? I am always …
MIY Hand Sanitizer With the current climate of preparedness one item that has flown off the shelves is hand sanitizer. So much so that many locations are out of stock or rationing their remaining stock. As one of the best defenses against getting ill, it is an important prep. While it may be hard to …
Some posts may include affiliate links. Food Producing Bushes That Can Provide For The Winter Months If you don’t have space or time for a full garden on your property or even a HOA that won’t allow you to have a food garden. You may want to look at food producing bushes, particularly ones that …
Fever: Causes and Home Remedies One of the most common symptoms of illness is fever. The issue however, is which illnesses? In some cases the fever can be more dangerous than the cause. Parents have fretted this conundrum for centuries, when to run to the emergency room and when to give fluids and wait. …
Using Plastic Bottles to Create Boats Plastic has become a major issue to our environment. One way of avoiding some of the damage our trash causes is to recycle and reuse it. Which is what Ismaël Essome Ebone of Cameroon is doing with his country’s plastic bottles and trash. He’s creating eco-boats for his countrymen. Not …
The Best Natural Antibiotics And How To Use Them Long before there were pills for infections and illnesses our grandparents used natural plants to treat themselves and others. This is true in every culture and for every nation. Many of today’s medicines come from those ancient remedies and antibiotics. Once pills and commercially made elixirs …
Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky If I am to be honest, post or pre-Apocalypse, the idea alone of eating rat turns my stomach, I am not so foolish as to say never however, because I understand that we may all do things including eating things that we are not now prepared to do if the world …
