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
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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 stockpiling of food, hunting, fishing, and trapping. While you cannot garner as much protein from foraged plants, herbs, berries, “weeds” or roots,
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Dollar store preps have become almost an obsession during my weekly errand running off of our survival homestead. I don’t think that I can walk out of the Dollar Tree store in our region without spending a minimum of $35 – and having a whole shopping cart full of preparedness bargains. My beloved prepper husband
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Starting the seeds for you survival garden indoors not only gives you a jump on the growing season, but saves money that can be used for other vital preps, as well. Relying on a garden center or nursery to provide already started plants for your prepper garden could be a recipe for disaster. If the
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There simply isn’t anything better than quality bargain preps when you are working to fulfill all the items on your survival plan wish list. There are many places to score cheap preps: online, in outdoors stores, flea markets, yard sale… and brick and mortar military surplus stores. Far too often, folks think only military gear
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Growing Jerusalem artichokes can keep both your and your survival livestock well fed during a long-term disaster – with barely any manual labor from you required in the process. A single Jerusalem artichoke plant is capable of producing 200 pounds of nutrient-rich tubers that is safe for both humans and livestock to eat. Jerusalem Artichoke
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Tinder and kindling are not the same thing, but you do need both to start a roaring fire – and sustain it. Being able to understand exactly what each element of fire-making is and does, you will be better equipped to get a campfire going no matter what weather elements you are battling. Tinder is
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Stockpiling toilet paper as part of your long-term disaster survival plan can be a bit tricky. Toilet paper takes up a whole lot of room to store, and will absorb destructive moisture if there is even a tiny rip in the package. If you put paper to pencil and do a little factoring, the amount
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Crisco should be stockpiled in anyone’s pantry alongside buckets of wheat and dehydrated protein. Sure, you can cook, bake, and fry with Crisco, but the plethora of other uses this old-fashioned kitchen standard boasts is what makes it a prepping and homesteading all-star. In 1911, crystallized cottonseed oil, or as we more commonly call it,
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