What is Aquaponics? We keep hearing aquaponics is the garden of the future. But what exactly is it, how does it work and why should we care? Food is an essential to all of us It doesn’t matter what political affiliation you are, where you live, how much you earn or even how you choose to …
SHTF First Aid – for Burn Victims Unfortunately in an emergency situation YOU may be the first responder and in a SHTF crisis perhaps the only responder. There are basic first aid proceedures we all should know for everyday life for example CPR. It should be considered however, that if you are preparing for a major disaster there may not …
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 …
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 …
12 Bug Out Tips for Families with Children Nothing could be more worrisome than the idea of needing to bug out with children in tow. Your plans need to be flexible enough to accommodate the younger one’s needs, yet firmly in place enough that your child knows what to expect and not to panic. The featured …
DIY Tri-pod Water Filter After finding yourself safely away from what ever SHTF scenario has caused your being in a survival situation and protecting yourself physically from the elements particularly extreme cold or heat. Your very next priority has to be water. Without water you can not survive no matter how much ammo or other …
10 Tips on How to Have a Successful Desert Vegetable Garden Growing any garden in a desert climate is quite different than in other climates and in my opinion much harder! That your garden is a food source only makes it more important and more difficult to get through to harvest. Especially when the heat …
6 Important Things to Know How to Improvise We live in a modern world and many of the items we use day to day are based upon that world. But tomorrow we know the comforts of that world could disappear before our very eyes. In order to comfortably survive the loss of those items and …
Bio-gas at home- Cheap and Easy This amazing method of making an alternative energy called bio-gas from animal waste, garden waste and kitchen scraps (almost any organic material works) was recently brought to my attention. Even though not as tidy per-say as solar it is less expensive, recycles waste, and would work year round. No worries …
