Brilliant Ways To Use Five Gallon Buckets Along with pallets, PVC pipes, and 55 gallon barrels, 5 gallon buckets are among the DIYer’s favorite materials for useful projects. Often obtained for free from delis, bulk grocery outlets, restaurants, feed stores, and even ice cream parlors and other local industries. They have a ton of uses …
A Prepper’s Guide to Bread Making Bread is one of staple of any pantry. Almost every culture on earth eats it in some form. When the French toast brigade hits stores just before a storm, it’s one of the first shelves to become bare. If the disaster is long term, what are people going to …
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 …
DIY Boot Survival Kit We’ve seen a number of small survival kits that could get you through a large difficult issue. These kits aren’t intended to replace your bug out bag not even your 72 hour kit rather to add to them and for use when those kits might not be available to us. We …
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 …
Meat Cutting: Beef As unpleasant as it may be actually killing the cow is the easy part. After that it takes some skill to make the beef cuts the very best they can be for your family. It is important that if you must take a creature’s life that you make use of the …
10 Useful Plants to Look For When Foraging for Food No matter what season nature can provide. Foraging is a way of life in some cultures and a back up source of food in others. In most western countries we grow those plants we think of as food sources. Neat gardens with neat rows of …
