Communication is one of the most underrated skills in the preparedness world. We need communication for coordination, information, intelligence gathering, and not least of all human contact. Without a means for communication, our world shrinks to the range of our voice. I once heard that without communication, anyone outside of walking distance will become someone …
Bad things happen to good people. This is one of the many mantras of preppers. We look out for those bad things around every corner. If you are a student of the threat matrix, you rank order the catalog of bad things based on probability. Then you spend the rest of your life chipping away …
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I travel for work a fair amount. On average, I spend one week a month on the road. During the busiest times, I’ll spend 5 out of six weeks traveling the United States with the occasional trip abroad. Through my travels, I’ve walked the streets of London, sweated over a plate of hot fried chicken …
As I get older, I reflect more and more on the generations that came before me and my family. Every fall, I send my father a picture of the four tons of wood pellets I’ve loaded into the garage and the canning that we completed over the year. My grandmother was a practical woman. It …
The modern medical marvel that is antibiotics has become so natural and ingrained, it’s hard to imagine being without them. The ravages of bacterial infections that the world endured before penicillin are the stuff of ghost stories. We have started to get a taste of a world without antibiotics, as resistance has grown because of …
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Many preppers focus on the big and spectacular. EMPs, maxed out bugout vehicles, enough guns and ammo to outfit a small country. Oh, let’s not forget that pallet of food. While this is admirable, the rest of us only have the means to focus on more immediate threats. With limited funds, we have to focus …
Beans, beans, the musical…. No, let’s start without the limericks. Beans and rice. Rice and beans. The world lives on beans and rice. From pauper food to high cuisine, beans are magical. They are packed with protein, inexpensive, and last forever. This makes them a cornerstone of prepping food storage. Carbohydrates store easily however proteins …
Time to pull back the curtain on my writing. I’ve been prepping for over 25 years, and I just hit a milestone. You know, the big one that comes with having too many birthdays to count. The one signified by discounts at the local coffee shop, and an AARP card in the mail. Yeah, that …
Own the night! We hear it often. When the sun goes down and there is no artificial light to aid our vision we are blind. When I was younger I’d venture out once a month to the deepest darkest woods we could find. Our troop leaders were fans of the long hike. You know, the …
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Is there anything more versatile than honey? It adds a unique sweetness. It stores forever. It has precious calories. It even has medical uses. Honey is the ultimate substance for self-reliance folks. Everyone with a passing interest in personal health or responsibility owes it to themselves to learn and practice the use of honey. Whether …
