Stop Shopping and MIY Items I know I have removed more than 5 items from my own shopping list by MIY (make it yourself). If you make it yourself, I am sure you have too! But if you’re new to the MIY process, then these might be the first 5 items you too could scratch off …
Grow Organically Without Pesticides Families are starting to become concerned with the use of chemicals and pesticides on the produce they get at the stores. They are starting their own Home Gardens in record numbers. They want to grow organically, without synthetic chemicals or pesticides, but how can they do this and keep the insect …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. DIY 55 Gallon Barrel Projects I have seen so many awesome pallet projects that it is about time the plastic barrel got its turn at being the recycle reuse and renew royalty. That’s what this particular article is all about. I wish that these barrels were available here inexpensively …
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 …
DIY PCV Gravity Aquaponic Garden Aquaponic gardens are becoming more and more popular. I always say they are mini little eco systems and they are! So actually, aquaponic gardening has always been around, but we are just beginning to bring them into our small corners of the world… our homes and gardens. But building one …
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 …
