Prepper news and tips for survival, self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and disaster preparedness.
by PAUL FASSA Cayenne (Capsicum annuum or frutescens, or red pepper) has been in continuous use by Native Americans as a food and medicine for roughly 9,000 years. Chilies belong to the nightshade family, same as tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant. They originated from the Americas….
By Daisy Luther In this day of paychecks that are stretched to the limit, it can be difficult to imagine taking on anything else that will cost money. Despite that, if you are interested in preparedness, you know that it’s wise to have a food…
By Gaye Levy With the recent proliferation of water shortages caused by wonky weather patterns, finding ways to maximize the water we do have has become a focus of preppers near and far. That said, in addition to knowing how to find, harvest, purify, and…
By Gaye Levy As preppers, if we stored a different product for each of our cleaning needs, we’d need a storage room the size of Costco to put it all in. That’s why I love vinegar. Vinegar is multi-purpose, non-toxic and inexpensive. With the addition…
By Dan Sullivan Frequent travelling is a bit of a problem for us preppers because we always have to figure out what we can and cannot take with us to stay protected. If we were to take our bug out bags as they are through…
By Shane Dayton, Secrets of Survival What are the best wild edibles that you can find and identify easily in an emergency that may be growing nearby and all around you? Some of these wild edibles can be found in several regions, are easy to prepare…
By Gaye Levy “Everyone who lives in the city is going to die when the SHTF.” Have you ever been on a preparedness website and read that? It makes my blood boil, and not just because it’s a negative and discouraging thing to say….
By Seeker Stories Meet Donnie Vincent, a hunter and adventurer with an important message. This weekly storytelling series uses the imagery of photographers and adventurers around the world to give us a deeper connection to and understanding of the human condition. Subscribe: http://skr.cm/SubscribeToStories
By Gaye Levy According to the CDC, there’s a public health epidemic you need to be on the lookout for. It’s not contagious, but has spread due to the North American lifestyle. You may have suffered from it yourself, without even realizing you were part…
By Daisy Luther As many of you know, we recently moved to a small home on a farm. Our house is about 900 square feet, and I live there with my youngest daughter and all of our preps. One of my favorite things on Pinterest…
By Daisy Luther Facing the zombie apocalypse as a super-wealthy person sure is different than it is for the rest of us mere mortals. While most of us would be ecstatically happy with a homemade bunker on the back 40 of our property, these luxury…
By Gaye Levy There comes a time when every prepper finally says, “Enough with all of the food and enough with all of the gear!” After years of seeking out the best stuff at the best prices, creating a stockpile, and purchasing equipment, you just…
AP Photo/Spyros Tsakiris By Heather Callaghan Greeks don’t want austerity, but the future is bleak and unknown. As of Friday, grocery shelves were being stripped bare of staple cooking goods, and pharmacies ran out of crucial medicines like thyroxine (thyroid treatment). More than half of…
By Daisy Luther Sometimes people think that a sumer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage….
By Gaye Levy This is the time of year when families travel to visit friends and relatives near and far. When taking a road trip, it is easy to throw a bug-out bag and extra food and clothing into the trunk of your car but…
By Daisy Luther In the prepper world, everyone always talks about “strategic relocation” but it’s rare to hear about the actual act of moving the enormous amount of stuff that we accumulate. We’re preparing for what I hope is my final move ever. We have…
By Catherine J. Frompovich What’s EMP, readers may be asking? It refers to Electromagnetic Pulses, and warfare! Yes, warfare, which very few folks realize probably will become the choice “winner takes all spoils” eventual destructive weapon of modern civilization. Why do I say that? The…
By Gaye Levy Whenever I think of glow sticks, my first thoughts are of kids’ sleepovers or rock concerts. Despite the visions of the Dollar Store party supply section that are probably dancing through your head, the bright tubes are actually a great addition to…
By Daisy Luther Did you ever read a blog post on a prepper site and sigh, because the person writing the post seemed to have been born a survivalist? In your mind’s eye, you could envision them at the tender age of six, weaving a…
By Daisy Luther Nothing warms my prepper’s heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception. Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a…
