Survival Gardening

One of the very best things you can do to improve your prospects in any long-term survival situation is to become more self-sufficient. When it comes to self-sufficiency, producing your own food is critically important. It’s really the only way you can be sure—or as sure as you can be—that you and yours will have […]

Gardening is a great way to enhance your food security, and especially important for surviving intermediate and long-term crisis situations. You won’t be able to head down to the grocery, most likely, and get yourself some fresh produce! Aside from providing energy, veggies are a terrific source of vitamins and minerals that your body has

The biggest part of prepping is focusing on the basics of survival. That means the real survival necessities, things like air, shelter, water, protection, and of course, food. Most of us got our start by packing a survival pantry full of consumables that are ready to eat with very little preparation. That’s a great thing,

You might have an invasive, alien killer on your property right now and not even know it. One that attacks under cover of night, slowly destroying the local inhabitants that make life and growth possible. Sound like a bad bit from a cheap novel? I wish it were. I am talking about hammerhead worms. Hammerhead

If you’re a prepper, homesteader, or gardener looking to bolster your food security in the event of an emergency, you may want to consider creating an indoor survival garden. Growing indoors allows you and your family to cultivate edible fruit, herbs and veggies year-round, ensuring a supply of nutritious produce no matter what situation arises

Gardening only seems easy if you’ve never done it before. For those who have experience with it, they know good and well how complicated the undertaking can be. There is always more to learn and more to do if you want to ensure that your hard work doesn’t go to waste and that you pull

Gardening is an enjoyable pastime that millions of people partake in, but for preppers, gardening is more than just an enterprise to help you while away spare time and weekends for bragging rights when you produce a few pieces of pristine fruit or veggies. For millennia, large and small scale gardening has been integral to

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. Being able to both prevent and treat illnesses all on your own is definitely essential. Growing your own healing herbs, plants, roots, and trees bolster your

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

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