By Gaye Levy One of the very first things I did when I first started prepping was to bolster my pantry with basic staples that could be used for a variety of purposes. When it was suggested that I store salt, and lots of it,…
By Gaye Levy Most preparedness information out there seems to assume that everyone is part of a family with a mom, a dad, three kids, and a dog. Or, if not that, an extended family that includes brothers, uncles, and a grand-pappy. Somehow, the picture…
By Daisy Luther We often talk about having a bugout bag that includes a folder with important documents, but despite your preparations andefforts to protect them, sometimes disaster strikes quickly and unexpectedly, and those documents are lost. For example, the fires last week in Northern…
By Daisy Luther However prepared you think you are for an emergency wildfire evacuation, when it looks like you’re driving through the outer edges of Hell, it’s going to be a scary ride. Wildfires are a real threat every year in California, but this season…
By Daisy Luther Years ago, I was reading the book Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs. (Great book that I highly recommend!) The premise of the book is that our future economic woes will be based on the scarcity of oil. The author, Wendy Brown,…
By Heather Callaghan If you were injured in the woods where no one could find you and you couldn’t even get up and walk around – how would you survive? Any way possible. That’s what happened to a missing man from Avon, New York. Donald…
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 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 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…
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 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 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 Are you broke? Facing foreclosure, eviction, and or repossession? I’ll bet $101,000 would help. Would you like the chance to win $101,000? Well, CBS understands and they are giving all of the broke people the opportunity to win a life-changing amount of…
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…
By Daisy Luther Did you ever stop to put some thought into the flushing power of your toilet? It’s one of those things we in modern society take for granted. We use the restroom, then we flush, wash our hands, and forget it. But during…
By Tess Pennington Each of us has every intention of ensuring our family has what it needs to survive and thrive. Part of your disaster mitigation plan should be planning for the possibility of having to evacuate from your bug-out location and living off of stored rations from…
By Daisy Luther When disaster seems imminent, there’s one vital decision that preppers have to make: bug in or bug out? The lyrics from the chorus of a song by The Clash sums it up – you’ve got trouble either way, but one way will…
Just how much damage can result from one severed wire? One crashed circuit board? A few errant keystrokes or transposed digits? It might surprise you to learn the magnitude of the impact of such a seemingly minor glitch. With the incredible reliance we have on…
by Gaye Levy Rich, golden honey. What is not to like? Just the thought of sweet, fragrant honey and honeybees makes me think of happy times. That, coupled with its long storage life makes honey a perfect food for the survival pantry. But did you…
