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Building Our House In The Mountains Part 1: Permits, Foundation, Floor, and Beginning Framing

Building Our House In The Mountains Part 1: Permits, Foundation, Floor, and Beginning Framing

A lot of people dream of home ownership. The fact that it takes a lifetime to pay for a lot of the giant houses on the market today means that…

Prepper Fitness for Self Defense: Training for Survival

Prepper Fitness for Self Defense: Training for Survival

Now, more than ever, preppers are seeing the advantage of improving physical fitness. For a long time, it was just the opposite. People were much more inclined to talk about…

Prepping In The City And Small Towns: Some Tips For Urban Preparedness

Prepping In The City And Small Towns: Some Tips For Urban Preparedness

I have to say that my background has always been rural. Urban prepping is a topic that I have chosen to explore because I know that there is a lot…

Winter Clothing Preparation For The Whole Family

Winter Clothing Preparation For The Whole Family

It’s starting to get a bit chillier outside. Stepping out in the morning on our mountain shows that Fall is firmly in place and frosts are going to start falling….

Root Cellaring Basics: Extending the Season Without Canning

Root Cellaring Basics: Extending the Season Without Canning

Root cellars have long been used to extend the harvest. There is so much you can do to make veggies last longer no matter what space you have to utilize….

Starting the Engine of a Prepared Community

Starting the Engine of a Prepared Community

All over the world, on all sides of the world, people are waking up to the self-imposed isolation of Mankind. It is a realization that supersedes much of the political…

Learning From Hurricane Michael: Observations, Future Hurricane Prep, and Staying Fed & Safe During the Aftermath

Learning From Hurricane Michael: Observations, Future Hurricane Prep, and Staying Fed & Safe During the Aftermath

Hurricane Michael proves that we need to be prepared all the time if we live in hurricane areas. Here are some observations I have thought about as the storm has…

Overcoming Prepper Stereotypes

Overcoming Prepper Stereotypes

Prepping is a popular term but it really just means thinking ahead and planning. This is not so different than the way people had to live a few generations ago….

Natural Pest and Vermin Control

Natural Pest and Vermin Control

Moving to a new house or out into a rural area is exciting. For a lot of people, it is their dream to move very far out in the country…

Why Preppers Should Take Technology Vacations

Why Preppers Should Take Technology Vacations

Being bored, impatient, and lonely is much worse if SHTF. Making bad decisions at critical moments will impact your survival unless you can get a handle on your state of…

Keeping Up Morale & Finding Entertainment During Hard Times

Keeping Up Morale & Finding Entertainment During Hard Times

Morale can be hard to keep up during hard times, but it is very important to maintain. Morale can have a major influence on your overall chances of survival during…

Surviving Flooding During and After Hurricane Florence

Surviving Flooding During and After Hurricane Florence

It is hurricane season, and so far it is lining up to be an eventful one. Florence is likely to bring flooding to a lot of areas. Figure 1. Infrared satellite…

A Review Of The Camp Chef Pro 60 X Two Burner Stove, Grill Box, and Griddle

A Review Of The Camp Chef Pro 60 X Two Burner Stove, Grill Box, and Griddle

    Camp Chef sent me a bit of gear to test, and I have been impressed with the quality and value you get. For this review we are testing…

Prepper Philosophy: WROL

Prepper Philosophy: WROL

Without rule of law, commonly abbreviated to “WROL” in pepper circles, refers to a time where the rule of law has dissolved. Perhaps some kind of disaster has impacted the…

How To Signal For Help: Whistles, Hollering, Infrared, Fire, and Beyond

How To Signal For Help: Whistles, Hollering, Infrared, Fire, and Beyond

I was browsing through some survival books when I thought about how there are not a lot of posts in recent times that talk about all the different ways to…

Avoiding Rescue Situations: How To Not Be “That Person”

Avoiding Rescue Situations: How To Not Be “That Person”

How many of us have seen a rescue situation unfold on TV or the paper and think “How did they get into that mess” or “what on earth?” Every year there…