Building a chicken coop does not need to be an expensive process. You can build a chicken coop that is predator proof from scrap material found around most homesteads and a couple small rolls of fencing – or less than $100 worth of wood. Upcycling an old rabbit hutch into a chicken coop is an …
Preserving your own food by home canning it will help increase your survival stockpiles far more economically than buying commercially manufactured long-term storage food. There are two distinctive ways to home can food – water bath canning and pressure canning. Each method uses the same type of glass Mason jars, rings, and lids, but the …
Growing medicinal herbs indoors not only creates a portable and easily accessible food source, it also allows preppers to cultivate the potent ingredients needed to make healing home remedies. During a SHTF event, calling 911 is not going to be an option. Everyone who lived through the 2020 pandemic knows quite well that even going …
Rendering tallow and preserving it will allow you to create a valuable multi-purpose prep that can last for many months – even longer than a year on the shelf. Both tallow and lard were once popular kitchen staples, but after they got a bad rap from the health food industry, it is nearly impossible to …
Have you ever wondered who is going to be running the state, the county, or the town where you live during a pandemic? I will give you a hint, but if you lived through the 2020 pandemic in the United States you should already know the answer. It is not someone you voted to elect. …
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Every prepper who had not stockpiled morale boosters prior to the pandemic surely sees the value in them now. Keeping the mind and body active, as well as stimulated can make the time spent either cooped up in a small space in an urban or suburban area, or when having the daily routine entirely disrupted …
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Wild carrots, or Queen Anne’s Lace (latin name: Daucus carota), as they are often called, are both medicinal and edible weeds. Unlike its look-alike, poison hemlock, this plant can be used fresh and in dried form to make healing tea, herbal infusion, and sweet jelly. Queen Anne’s Lace was brought to the United States by …
Learning new survival skills or honing existing ones doesn’t necessarily involve spending a weekend roughing it in the woods or going to some type or training facility. While many of the most important hands-on training does occur outdoors, there are extremely valuable survival skills you can learn right now while sitting inside your home. Watching …
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Foraging is a vital part of any food security survival plan. If you know what to look for, food can be found in all four seasons – even in an urban environment. But, if you look, touch, or taste the wrong plants, what you pluck from the woods and pop into your mouth may just …
Being able to forage during a survival situation can mean the difference between life and painful starvation. Foraging or wildcrafting skills are just as vital to your food security survival plan as the long-term stockpiling of food, hunting, fishing, and trapping. While you cannot garner as much protein from foraged plants, herbs, berries, “weeds” or …
