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Sustainable Vegetable Gardening Tips For Homesteaders and Preppers
Sustainable Vegetable Gardening Tips For Homesteaders and Preppers Here’s the deal… Everyone knows that you need to practice your sustainable gardening skills now before the world as we know it ends. However, how are you implementing that practice? Did you purchase your seedlings from a store? If you have bugs in your garden, do you reach […]
Why buy new when you can shop used: Reviewing second hand approaches to first world problems
Why buy new when you can shop used: Reviewing second hand approaches to first world problems “Measurement owes its existence to Earth; Estimation of quantity to Measurement; Calculation to Estimation of quantity; Balancing of chances to Calculation; and Victory to Balancing of chances.” Sun Tsu For all of us there is the justified issue of […]
Dealing With Medical Emergencies Solo: When It’s Necessary To Stitch Up Your Own Wound, Pull Out Your Own Tooth, Apply Your Own Tourniquet
Dealing With Medical Emergencies Solo: When It’s Necessary To Stitch Up Your Own Wound, Pull Out Your Own Tooth, Apply Your Own Tourniquet About two months ago, I sliced my leg open with a beer bottle. I work in a bar, so that was extraordinary in itself, but the depth was. Bone wasn’t visible, but […]
A Possible “EMP” Hit On A Solar Power System — And How To Reduce The Risk
A Possible “EMP” Hit On A Solar Power System — And How To Reduce The Risk EMP is just a super-duper version of regular old radio frequency interference. With enough signal strength to blast past the reverse voltage limits of most semiconductors, an EMP attack is expected to destroy many solid-state radios, computers, controllers, etc. I […]
Preserving And Creating ‘Wealth’
Preserving And Creating ‘Wealth’ Avoiding loss of one’s ‘wealth’ from whatever crises may befall you and/or your family seems paramount to helping avoid or at least mitigate the negative consequences that accompany emergencies and disasters, or even the general decline of civilisation. With currency devaluation, government overreach, civil unrest, bank bail-in legislation, labour strife, market […]
Surviving In Suburbia: How One Family Turned Their Suburban Lot Into A Productive Mini-Farm
Surviving In Suburbia: How One Family Turned Their Suburban Lot Into A Productive Mini-Farm Gather together a group of preparedness minded folks and the conversation invariably turns to pulling up stakes and moving to the country to create a self-reliant home and life. But, for many, moving is not an option. Work, family, kids, health, […]
How Do You Handle Emergency Food Storage?
How Do You Handle Emergency Food Storage? As I write this, we are in the middle of Winter Storm Jonas. There is 13″ of snow in the yard and the closest paved road is five miles away. I haven’t been off the property in five days and did not make a trip to the store […]
Solar Water Pumps
Solar Water Pumps I recommend having a well or large cistern for backup water use when municipal water is unavailable in a prolonged crisis, but you still need a reliable way to get the water out of the ground if grid power is down. As usual, I recommend multiple options as backup—solar power or windmill […]
Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning
Ideas, Thoughts And Observations On Home Canning We’ve only two adults in the household these days (not counting pets of any age) and here’s a few ideas I use for ‘down sizing’ & trying to manage the food rotation. All just a few basic ideas, humble opinions, etc., that I’m happy to share with any […]
Tips On Saving Seeds
Tips On Saving Seeds There are no guarantees in this world we live in today. We can’t rest assured that the grocery store will always be there or that its shelves will always be stocked full of food. We can’t count on our local home supply store having rows and rows of different seed packets to choose […]
Installing An Off-Grid Water Well
Installing An Off-Grid Water Well Getting out of the city and choosing to live “out in the country” is a goal of many preppers. “Homesteading” sounds so idealistic; getting back to the basics and living the dream! What most don’t realize is homesteading is hard physical work and has a lot of unknowns. It requires a […]
My Thoughts An Experiments With Various Means Of Off Grid Cooking
My Thoughts An Experiments With Various Means Of Off Grid Cooking I’m a firm believer in redundancy or the old adage,” one is none and two is one”. Over the last few months, I’ve put a lot of time and effort into experimenting with different methods of boiling water and cooking off grid. While I […]
Advice For The Newly Awakened And Overwhelmed
Advice For The Newly Awakened And Overwhelmed There are many aspects of personal preparedness that make sense, and I know firsthand that once you take a trip down the rabbit hole, the path to preparedness can be daunting at best, if not completely overwhelming. To this overwhelming state of mind, I wish to remind everyone […]
