45 Camping/SHTF Tips Video The video below is from our friends Prepped Survivalist from “across the pond” with some really excellent tips on camping and making it a bit easier if you are bugging out. It runs a little over eleven minutes so go ahead and save it if you don’t have time to watch now. …
What Not to do After the SHTF The featured article from Prepper’s Will is a really good look at things that can derail your survival plan if they are allowed to happen. We get a lot of ideas on what to do if we are in the mist of a crisis but not so …
Convincing Your Teen to Prepare If you have teens, you know that anything a parent says pretty much goes in one ear and out the other with only a minimal stop in the grey matter in between. Many teens become outright defiant of any attempt to teach them life skills. I know I had 5! …
Grow A Camouflaged Food Forest The public food forest is popping up in urban areas all over the western world. Why not plant your own in your corner of the world? Not only are they incredibly easy to upkeep but can be easily camouflaged to prevent uninvited human grazers. There is an art to planting …
The Letter: A Loving Gift of Preparedness Most people don’t write a letter anymore. They send a text, an email, leave a voice message, or make a quick call. But there is just something so personal and permanent about a hand written letter. The gift of preparing to care for yourself and those you care …
DIY Outhouse ‘Easy Empty’ Composting Toilet (Parts 1 & 2) (2 links) One of the things I recall most clearly about my grandparents farm is the outhouse! It is one of my least favorite memories too! I don’t recall them closing the old one and opening a new one, but I can’t imagine it …
How to Know When to Refill Your Propane Tank No gauge on your propane tank or is your gauge not working properly? No problem! This nifty little trick shown in the video below will help you know when it is time to refill even without a working gauge. This is an aggregated site. …
Post SHTF Dumpster Diving Many of us stockpile so that until we can get a sustainable source of fresh food we won’t have to go hungry, stand in a hand out line or stoop to dumpster diving. Our featured blog in this post challenges that thinking. In all honesty the thinking behind the recommendations make sense. …
Animal or Human? Specialized Shoes Leave Them Guessing! They are intended to be art. Made by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre, clay sculptures attached to old shoes. Kind of urban funk. His creations could fool the best of us! I think the fun would be watching urban neighbors realize there are bear or even just deer …
Wild Game Jerky Who doesn’t love jerky? We have a number of recipes for various sauces and flavorings on the site. But I don’t think that a whole lot of us have tried to many wild game jerkies. Here in my local area the common jerkies are made from beef, turkey and deer. But if …
