1,000 Year Old Remedy Fights Antibiotic Resistant Bugs The featured article speaks to an old eye salve that is said to actually work wonders on infections like MRSA which are usually antibiotic resistant. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK found the remedy in a 9th century they were translating in hopes of …
Avoid 6 Common Prepping Mistakes Like with most things in life prepping can be a live and learn proposition. However, unlike many other life lessons, you may not get the chance to change the plan or get a re-do as the only mistake could be the only one that mattered. So, in this instance we …
Budget Home-Defense Techniques from a Green Beret I recently read a post online from a woman who was hopping mad. Someone had put a rock threw her window in order to gain access to her home unaware that she was at home. She announced that she intended to sit and wait for this person to …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Food Preservation And Sustainability One of the most important parts of prepping or homesteading is sustainability. You can save and store a huge number of supplies only to have them wiped out in a disaster, taken from you by marauders or confiscated and eventually no matter how much you …
10 Basics For Your Armorer’s Kit Almost every prepper site talks about having a personal armory for the day when you must hunt for food and or protect yourself and your family from those who would take what you have or simply want to do harm. But they don’t talk about the fact that just …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Some States Require a Permit to Trade Seeds It appears another simple homesteading, prepping, and gardening common practice has found its way into the law maker’s crosshairs. Seed libraries, friends, neighbors and even relatives may soon and are already in some states required to have a permit to gift …
DIY Cheese Waxing DIY cheese waxing sounds like a really bizarre process, doesn’t it?!? But once the cheese is incased in the wax it can store for years without getting moldy. Personally, a world without cheese to me is a personal SHTF scenario. I love cheese on or in just about everything. Not only does it …
What Can’t Safely Be Canned? I know when I first began canning, I wanted to can EVERYTHING! I still re-can things I purchase in bulk down to meal size portions. But I have learned over the years and fortunately without any ill effects that not everything cans well. Not only do some things not can …
DIY Container Gardening Ideas and Tips There are a number of reasons why people who would like to have a full-size outdoor garden can’t or don’t. You may not have weather that is conducive to a full growing season, limited outdoor space, bad soil, time constraints or even a disability that makes it too difficult to garden. …
Avoid BOB Mistakes The Prepared Page is proud to present a new author among our featured articles, Cynthia Hoover. Extremely detailed and geared toward the refreshing for long term preppers and assisting the new prepper with beginning the process of getting started, we hope you will find her articles as helpful as we do. Lots …
