What You Didn’t Know About Bugging Out Here are some things that you might never experience if you haven’t strapped your gear on your back (more properly, your hips) and traced your planned bug out route. You can’t know for sure what will work and what will not. You can’t choose to add or remove items from …
DIY Hidden Pivot Bookcase (Two links! 1 for the complete DIY’er and 1 for the DIY’er kit) One universal issue shared by all those that prep, have children or low square footage homes, is storage space! How and where do we find more space and if possible can it be hidden in plain sight? Also quite popular with …
9 Items for your Glove Box Whether you Survive or not is most predictable by attitude. Without the right attitude all the appropriate skills and tools in the world won’t help you get through an emergency. But with the right attitude and some very basic tools within hands reach in your glove box, you can get through. To …
DIY Chispito Wind Generator Plans Sooner or later one way or another we are all going to go off the grid eventually. It might be by choice to cut utility bills, or required because the grid is down long term. Either way wind power is a really viable option because in almost every location has at …
Quitting Money I admit and I am willing to bet that many others have at one time or another have considered what it would be like to live a cash-less world. I have even wondered about the difference between living without money in our current money driven world. How hard would it be? Just what …
Learn Morse Code-Simplified In an urgent situation you will want to be able to let authorities know that you and/or your group are in need of assistance or rescue. Morse code may be the only way to do it when the power is out during a storm or other major emergency is literally a life saving communication. Post SHTF you will be …
Be Prepared Before Tornado Season As we saunter through the fall season and ready ourselves for the winter months and storms. That spring will soon follow shouldn’t be forgotten! Spring is that wonderful time of year when winter finally steps aside to let lawns turn green, trees’ leaf out, flowers bloom and birds sing. But …
Urban Foraging Regardless of your environment, you can find plants that it will provide you with nourishment in a survival situation. But you must know what to look for and know where to look for it. This includes non-traditional growing seasons! Some plants are entirely edible from the fruit to the roots. Roots can be found year …
Harvesting and Using Dandelion Roots We talk a lot about what can be made from the dandelion flower and stalk. We actually have provided our readers with a number of recipes like these …….. Dad’s Dandelion Wine MIY Dandelion Bread Dandelion Jelly But the dandelion root itself is not only editable but can also be …
Making Reflector Oven Bread Wheat, flour, cattail, or rice based bread and pastries could quickly become stables in our post SHTF diets. Knowing how to prepare and bake them under primitive circumstances will be a valued skill and one we can practice on during hunting trips, camping trips, back yard bbq’s Too see how …
