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How to Grow a Survival Garden (and what to do if it dies)
How to Grow a Survival Garden (and what to do if it dies) I love growing my own vegetables. I spend many fulfilling hours outside every summer, tending to my plants, nurturing my soil, and babying things along, with the birds for music and a basket full of delicious organic food to show for it each […]
Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder
Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder The world is entering a kind of no man’s land, in between the realms of insane denial and utterly obvious crisis. Europe is now destabilizing amid the Greek soap opera (an event that I predictedin January would occur in 2015); China’s stock market bubble is bursting; and the U.S. dollar’s […]
How to Prep for a Summer Power Outage
How to Prep for a Summer Power Outage Sometimes people think that a sumer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage. However, a summer power outage […]
How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper
How to Properly Debate a Non Prepper Let me start by saying that I almost never do this. I hate giving people a hard time for their opinions, even if they’re wildly divergent from my own. But sometimes, people say things that are so baseless and ignorant, they demand a response. Such is the case […]
12 Strategies for Creating the Perfect Pantry
12 Strategies for Creating the Perfect Pantry There are a lot of different ways to go about building your pantry. While each style has its pros and cons, I think that adhering to any one strategy alone leaves some gaps in your food preparedness. Personally, I’m a fan of combining the best of each world […]
Looking for Motivation? 21 Preppers Share the Stories of How They Got Started
Looking for Motivation? 21 Preppers Share the Stories of How They Got Started One of the most common questions I’m asked in interviews is how I got started prepping. That crucial moment when you decide that you need to change the way you live is paramount to understanding the motivation to live a prepared lifestyle. Recently, I asked […]
How to Prep When You’re NOT an Epic Wilderness Survival Guru
How to Prep When You’re NOT an Epic Wilderness Survival Guru Did you ever read a blog post on a prepper site and sigh, because the person writing the post seemed to have been born a survivalist? In your mind’s eye, you could envision them at the tender age of six, weaving a snare from some vines […]
San Andreas for Preppers: 12 Earthquake Survival Lessons from the Movie
San Andreas for Preppers: 12 Earthquake Survival Lessons from the Movie Nothing warms my prepper’s heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception. Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a boat through post-tsunami […]
The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide: Are You Ready for a Long-Term Water Emergency?
The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide: Are You Ready for a Long-Term Water Emergency? Are you truly prepared for a water emergency? How long could your family survive if the water stopped flowing from the municipal supply and none was available at the store? If the answer is not “indefinitely” then you need to check out […]
Sanitation in the City: What To Do When the Toilet Won’t Flush
Sanitation in the City: What To Do When the Toilet Won’t Flush Did you ever stop to put some thought into the flushing power of your toilet? It’s one of those things we in modern society take for granted. We use the restroom, then we flush, wash our hands, and forget it. But during extreme […]
Bloom Where You’re Planted: Prepping to Survive Where You Are Right Now
Bloom Where You’re Planted: Prepping to Survive Where You Are Right Now Have you ever heard anyone utter some variation of one of these comments? “I’m going to start prepping as soon as I can move.” “I can’t prepare because I live in a tiny apartment.” “Well, once we are able to get moved to […]
Urban Survival Skills That Will Keep You Alive
Urban Survival Skills That Will Keep You Alive When the subject of Survival comes up in conversation, what do you think of? I am sure context plays a big part in the answer to that question, but for me personally it used to always conjure up the shipwrecked on a deserted island idea of survival. […]
How to Start Prepping in 3 Easy Steps
How to Start Prepping in 3 Easy Steps One day, you’re just moving through life with everyone else in your office or at your church, and then, for whatever reason, the reality of how tenuous our current lifestyle is, hits you squarely between the eyes. You realize that electricity and grocery stores and transportation are […]
How to Survive Anything in 3 Easy Steps
How to Survive Anything in 3 Easy Steps You can have enough food to ride out 15 years of Armageddon. You can have a fully stocked retreat or a bunker. You can have so much ammo stashed that your floorboards are groaning. You may have followed your favorite preparedness book’s guidelines to the letter, and thus have […]
Primitive Survival Skills: Surviving Without Supplies
Primitive Survival Skills: Surviving Without Supplies Although modern day technology has made outdoor living easier than the last few thousand years it is still very important to have knowledge of primitive survival skills. Knowing primitive survival skills will ensure survival without gear or supplies. A vast majority of people lately have been gathering gear and […]
