26 Mini Indoor Garden Ideas Gardening doesn’t have to be an outdoor fair weather proposition. Greenery and produce aren’t to be enjoyed only in the spring and summer months. Indoor gardening is a fun productive way to green up your home and perhaps even produce some food stuff for your family. Houzz shows us 26 …
7 Critical and Specific Components of a Prepared Home This article is more about preparing the specifics of the family in the home than the house, after all isn’t it the family that makes the house a home? The whole point of preparedness is to preserve the lives of ourselves and families as well as …
Drinking Rain Water Many of us collect rain water for grey water uses. Always of course staying within the legal limits and only for the purposes allowed by the rain water laws of our own locality. 😉 In a SHTF scenario this could be your only option to obtain water for all uses including drinking. …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Learning to Use and Hunt With a Catapult You might not consider the hand held catapult as a weapon but remember the story of David and Goliath! It is an ancient weapon that can still get the job done. I call it the grown up version of the kid’s …
DIY Hinged HOOP HOUSE for Raised Bed I love this project! If you don’t have room, time, or even money for a full size green house this mini hoop house can still provide the benefits of one on a much smaller scale. It could also be a viable answer for renters because it literally can …
Priority Home Security Improvements Home security is a topic that doesn’t always get the attention it should on prepping sites. Our homes are our safe havens from the world. Having that safety shattered is a SHTF event. Sometimes we are so busy worrying about outside SHTF events and bugging out etc.. that we forget about …
Accurately calculate how much food you need for SHTF We are given estimates on how much food we need to store per person for a SHTF event. But have you really looked at the serving size on some foods? I was looking at the serving size on a bottle of salad dressing the other day …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Optimum Survival Group Size We all know that that lone wolf survival epic is just that… an epic myth. It might be the way to go when the SHTF initially. But eventually you must sleep. There is a whole lot to be done to stay alive with any …
One family proves Self-reliance in the city is Possible We don’t usually feature blogs about our bloggers but this family is news worthy on their own! The Dervaes family writes the Urban Homestead blog which we feature often. But this story isn’t about one of their individual homesteading triumphs but about their overall success at …
Homestead in Place One of our favorite bloggers Gayle over at Backdoor Survival lives a prepper lifestyle but her dream has long been to own and operate a legitimate homestead. The livestock, the crops, the huge garden, the entire way of life appeals to her. But like many of us she has had to make …
