Building a sustainable and secure food storage plan is a key part of family preparedness. But with differing can sizes at food storage companies, how do you know which foods to buy in which sizes? This guide will help...
Prepping as a lone wolf is a much different experience than prepping with a family. A lot of the time, it’s having a family that brings the importance of prepping to light.
The trouble is that your spouse and kids...
In this comprehensive series of normal labor and delivery off the grid, we’ve discussed late-term pregnancy, the signs of impending labor, the progress through the stages of labor, delivery of the infant, and recovery care of the new mother....
There has been much said, at one time or another, about bartering in a post-disaster world. Some preppers go so far as to build a stockpile of extra supplies, over and above their family’s needs, specifically for the purpose...
Every day awareness grows of the real-world threat of an EMP attack or a solar coronal mass ejection. In either one of these scenarios, the damage to the electrical grid and many of the electronics people rely on will...
Canning meat is easy. Yep, that’s where we’re starting today: what we’re about to do is pretty easy and everyone should be doing it. The freezer is great, but you do end up with degradation in taste and texture...
It’s not common to think of growing a tree in a bucket, but many people do it all the time. Typically they’re dwarf varieties planted in large planters, containers, and even… buckets.
But why grow trees in buckets? There a...
When building a resilient and sustainable food storage plan, we readily purchase pounds and pounds of wheat and dried beans, canned goods and freeze-dried food, yet overlook things that are integral to food preparation and edibility, as well as...
In this series on labor and delivery off the grid, we’ve emphasized the importance that knowledge of the birth process plays in producing a healthy newborn. In parts 1 and 2, we got you all the way through the delivery of the...
Survival Ordeal of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
The plane was chartered by the Old Christians rugby club to fly from Montevideo, Uruguay to Santiago, Chile after a stopover in Mendoza, Argentina. It was piloted by the flight’s inexperienced copilot...