MIY Black Raspberry Wine Depending upon which part of the world you live in, black raspberries could be plentiful and grow wild…. even where you don’t want them too! Red or black they make an excellent MIY wine and an awesome syrup. Both good ways of preserving the bounty of the bush. Today’s posting is …
Flood Types and Preps Where you live will determine the type of flood you could experience. I personally have experienced Inland, flash and river. All are devastating but all are different and require a different mind set and preparations. I admit the one I was least prepared for was the Inland flood, who expects a …
Opening Our Ports to Terror? We have become aware of the lengths that those that wish to cause us harm and alter our ability to enjoy and live our lives as we wish via terror will go to. We have seen them weaponize cars, trucks, airplanes, and other items and locations that we always felt …
Family Central Rally Point It sounds pretty basic doesn’t it. Everyone should know where to go in an emergency. Unless you really think it out. What if your meeting place is destroyed? What if one or more people in your family can’t get to the central rally point? Have you really put thought into how …
Prepper Spring Cleaning Even though most of us are chopping at the bit waiting for spring to finally be in full swing. One thing the majority of us don’t look forward to is spring cleaning! It is a bit of a different process when you are a homesteader or a prepper. There are things other …
Common Vitamin Deficiencies: Recognizing and Resolving We don’t always eat to live. I know that sounds odd, but it’s true. We eat because we are hungry but don’t always look at the foods we eat as fuel that breaks down to service our bodies. This means the different vitamins and minerals work toward the benefit …
Reuse Commonly Thrown Away Items Part of the lifestyle of both preppers and homesteaders is to become self-sustainable. That can also mean to help sustain our planet as well. One way to do that is to reuse items rather than sending them on to a landfill. If you can save some cash while doing so, …
Some posts may contain affiliate links Family Summer Prepping Activities School has been out in the United States for a while. Right about now your kids are beginning to get bored and worse yet beginning to drive their parents crazy. So what to do? Teach them to prep of course! 🙂 Seriously there are a …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Foundations Community Security Security is one of the areas where we count on trickle down methods. We count on our countries active duty military to protect us from the armies of unfriendly countries. Our national guard to protect us when things go wonky within our own borders. Federal agents, …
Living Off-Grid Can Make You Happier And Healthier The idea of living off grid brings out the homesteader can do attitude deep in many of our hearts. Until you actually do it and realize it can be fun one minute and a heavy work burden the next. That is part of what is great about …
