A Common Sense Guide to Emergency Preparedness, Self-Reliance and Provident Living
Best Strategies for Growing a Reliable Survival Garden
An important aspect of becoming self-reliant is to grow at least some of your own food. Today, you can choose to grow your own or pick it up at the market. Tomorrow you may have to depend on what you can produce in your own backyard to feed your family. Why...
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Be Part of the Solution: 14 Compelling Reasons to Be a Prepper
The media often paints preppers in a less than appealing light because of a few extreme preppers that make an impressive, but a non-realistic story. Real preppers are quite different than Doomsday Preppers. What are today’s preppers actually preparing for? Modern...
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Charcoal: Inexpensive Fuel for Outdoor Emergency Cooking
Emergency cooking can be a bit challenging as you look at how to safely store enough fuel to get you through the crisis. Charcoal briquettes not only give you the biggest bang for your cooking fuel buck but they are safe to store in large quantities and have an...
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Super Survival Sprouts: Powerful Nutrition from Your Stored Wheat
Recently we taught a food storage class for the Civil Defense Volunteers of Utah and discovered that there is some controversy over whether or not grains stored with an oxygen absorber will retain the ability to sprout. Sprouting may be vital to good nutrition in a...
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Shelf-Life of Vitamin Supplements in a Survival Food Supply
A well designed long term survival food storage program will contain most of the vitamins and minerals you need to make it through a crisis, with the exception of Vitamin A and Vitamin C. It may be a good idea to store vitamin supplements to ensure you get the...
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Preppers Without Partners: When Preparing Is All on YOU
Jonathan and I are quite blessed to have a partner with whom we are united in our self-reliance and preparedness efforts. Our readers frequently remind us that not everyone is so lucky. Whether you are single or married, sometimes you may find that you are prepping...
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