When planning and storing food for emergencies or survival situations, we have long advocated incorporating foods that will last forever (or at least...

Probably the best thing about an off-grid home is that it kinda forces you to get back on speaking terms with things you wouldn’t do for all the mon...

When garden composting caught on in the early 1980s, I thought back to my mother sending us kids to the garden every night to bury the day’s apple c...

For the few wondering what off-grid means – The term off-the-grid (OTG) can refer to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on on...

Planning for medical emergencies is one of the biggest challenges one faces. This is especially true if the situation will occur with limited outside...

If you’ve been prepping for a while, you may have used some of your provisions during short-term emergencies. Perhaps you’ve used some when a stor...

Like millions of other preppers, I live in the southwest portion of the United States. That affords me the advantage of great scenery, mountaintop vie...

Of all natural disasters, earthquakes seem to bring with them the highest levels of destruction to property and health. Earthquakes are the results of...

When I say “hands-free light” I mean a miner/caver style headlamp or a clip-on cap light. I don’t mean a lantern or any equivalent. Lamps and la...

Silver in all forms has been employed by mankind for its antiseptic qualities over millennia. The Greeks and Romans used a silver coin to purify bad w...

There are many great reasons to start down the road of being prepared to take care of yourself in an emergency or crisis. When you feel that is someth...

In almost every post we talk of preparing for disasters or emergencies and the simple steps you can take ahead of time to become prepared. Being prepa...