Foraging is looking for looking for and harvesting food from the wild, this can include herbs, fruit, nuts, mushrooms and even some forms of insects or shellfish. Think back to early mankind, we were nomadic tribes of hunters and gatherers, foraging is basically the same thing. Early humans lived off of food that they found …
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As anybody who is living far outside city limits knows, wells are an essential resource for securing your access to clean, copious water. Wells have been used for thousands and thousands of years for exactly that purpose and aside from a handful of differences, installation and the technology to operate them, they work on the …
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Ham radio is a useful resource for your survival toolbox if things go south with the communications network. Cell towers can fail, or in the case of emergencies, could become jammed with usage. Service could go down during a civil uprising or natural disasters, and you will need a way to communicate with your family, …
I’m happy to report that Utah is a state with highly modern, grounded and well written self-defense statutes that include that ever important stand-your-ground provision. So long as the individual or another person is threatened with unlawful force that could result in death or great bodily injury, or threatened with the imminent commission of any …
Part of prepping is gathering the tools, materials and resources you think you’ll need to survive a disaster, or long- or indefinite-term SHTF situation. When there is no telling what sort of problem you’ll need to solve next using your own ingenuity and the items you have close to hand, you’ll need to be adaptable, …
7 Surprising Survival Uses for Potassium Permanganate Read More »
Over the years, and especially recently, there’s probably a word you have heard bandied about in regards to the economy that is whispered with dread, menace and the hushed, terrified awe of the boogeyman: Hyperinflation. Often talked about, rarely codified, and even more rarely explained in terms that everyday people can relate to, hyperinflation seems …
When you take up prepping as a lifestyle, you’ll find there is always something you need. It seems like that shopping list grows and grows until it stretches to the horizon: equipment, provisions, training, land, gear, weapons. There is always some weakness you can shore up, some vulnerability you can eliminate or some scenario you …
When the time comes to bug out or just catch a little time and the great outdoors, you’ll need a reliable shelter option that can help keep you warm and keep any bad weather off of you when it is time to catch a little rest. The two most popular options for transportable shelters are …
Camping is an activity that most folks will prepare for at some point. Be it a fun recreational activity, a practice run for various skills that must be kept sharp or an actual, live event, sometimes you just need to get away from it, all and chill out in the wilderness for a little while. …
Idaho is a remarkably good state when it comes to pepper spray laws because they basically “don’t have any”! That is not entirely true, of course, as the criminal misuse of pepper spray can still get you into big trouble, but they do not institute any major restrictions of any kind on pepper spray or …
