A Bug Out Bag is something that most of us are familiar with even if most of us do not have one loaded by the door or in the trunk […]...

Imagine this is your home… A darkened house in the suburbs of Columbus, around eight on a cold winter’s evening. A little girl is snuggled under a...

While Harvey moves away from Texas, it makes me start to mentally go over my preps and I start analyzing what I still haven’t done, or need to check...

You may have heard of the increasingly prominent use and promotion of what is being called essential oils if you have read any prepping blogs or self-...

Bartering is the key. This will be the solution to all our problems when the grid goes down and society devolves back to somewhere around the early 19...

  Food storage has generated a lot of controversy over the decades and will do so over the next decades if SHTF fails to arrive. How do you tell...

A great deal can go into site planning for your survival homestead, even when the infrastructure is already in place and funds don’t exist to renova...

Welcome back to our series on the 5 things you need to go off grid now, where we began with the premise that going “off grid” might not be somethi...

I generally agree with the premise that skills are far more important than stuff, and that knowledge weighs nothing. There are skills that benefit us,...

  I’m a mother of two in Texas who is very concerned about the very real possibility of SHTF happening within the next several years. I began p...

Hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean runs from June 1st to November 30th with a sharp peak in activity from late August through September. It was p...

Although you may not know of any immediate dangers or emergencies, it is best to be prepared for something long before it presents itself. Often, when...