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How To Not Be Overwhelmed With Your Prepping – Tips, Advice and How-To For Putting Together the Perfect Bug Out Bag
How To Not Be Overwhelmed With Your Prepping – Tips, Advice and How-To For Putting Together the Perfect Bug Out Bag If you are like me, you may find prepping for everything to be a little overwhelming. It can seem that no matter how much you have, there just is never enough. I have read […]
Here’s How You’ll Die When the SHTF (and How to Prevent Your Untimely Demise)
Here’s How You’ll Die When the SHTF (and How to Prevent Your Untimely Demise) When it hits the fan…I mean REALLY hits the fan in a permanent kind of way, the most likely outcome is death. That’s not pretty, and I’m well aware of it. I always try to be positive and optimistic, because for […]
Self-Reliance: Control What You Can (Food/Fitness)
Self-Reliance: Control What You Can (Food/Fitness) Self-reliance boils down to taking control of what we can control and depending as little as possible on what we can’t control. Self-reliance is a grand-sounding phrase, but what does it mean in real life?Does it mean total self-sufficiency? To my way of thinking, even the most self-sufficient still […]
Surviving the Drought: 25 Easy Ways to Conserve Water
Surviving the Drought: 25 Easy Ways to Conserve Water If you aren’t already storing and conserving water, it is absolutely your top preparedness priority as our country suffers from the drought that has now reached epic proportions. Forget, for now, about the beans and rice – how are you going to cook them without any water? From […]
Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes
Foodroom Gardening: No Rows, No Woes As I battle mud and mosquitoes in this wet year, in the wallow that used to be our garden, I think faraway, crazy thoughts. I keep trying to imagine a future time when all human beings would be responsible for their basic food necessities just as they are responsible for […]
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 […]
Building Hope in Times of Crisis
Building Hope in Times of Crisis ‘There is a big need for the solidarity movement in Greece. It started in late 2011 and has nearly doubled now to around 400 groups – even more if you add the more loosely networked ones,’ Christos Giovanopoulos says. We sit in the central Athens office of Solidarity for […]
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 […]
Stouffville Corner
A new section of my site, Stouffville Corner, aims to provide a variety of write-ups on topics I consider to be of primary importance/ interest. The aim was to have my local paper, Stouffville Tribune, publish them on a weekly/bi-weekly basis to bring the issues to the consciousness of my local community (thus the name). […]
Quote Of The Year. And The Next. And The One After
Quote Of The Year. And The Next. And The One After I very rarely read back any of the essays I write. But maybe that’s not always a good thing. Especially when they deal with larger underlying issues beneath the problems we find ourselves in, why these problems exist in the first place, and what […]
Permaculture: The Design Arm of a Paradigm Shift
Permaculture: The Design Arm of a Paradigm Shift Here’s how it happened to me: Back in 1990 I was playing hooky from my unsatisfying biotech job in Seattle by browsing the homesteading shelves in the public library. I pulled down a thick black book I hadn’t seen before calledPermaculture: A Designers’ Manual. As I perused […]
Looking for Some Answers
Looking for Some Answers A few months back John Michael Greer, over at the Archdruid Report, wrote an essay about how we might begin to tackle the huge mental and emotional burden of dealing with collapse. It was noted that, for the most part, the majority of people simply don’t want to think about or discuss the […]
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 […]
Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker
Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker Most of us have a proverbial “plan-B,” or at least a rough idea of how we would protect ourselves and our families in the event of an emergency. Having a temporary safe haven is at the top of the list. However, before you start, it’s important that you know […]
