By Tess Pennington In the book, The Prepper’s Cookbook, I emphasize how easy it is to bulk up your emergency food pantry by dehydrating food you have around you. With a meager $50 investment into a food dehydrator, you can: dry vegetables for soup mixes dry…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor If you could make giant batches of rice for your week’s meals without babysitting the pot or buying an expensive rice cooker – would you do it? Of course! It makes life so much easier, so here we go… Food.com has great…
By Tess Pennington Herbs are one of the first plants we put in our garden. There is nothing like fresh culinary herbs to intensify the flavors of food. As well, herbs are hardy garden plants that don’t have to be watered as much as vegetables…
By Gaye Levy Anyone who loves to garden, especially those who wish to be able to provide wholesome foods for themselves and their families and live independently enough to survive economic or natural disasters will need to know what to do with all of the…
By Amanda Froelich This simple trick could prevent a lot of distress… Food poisoning is no joke. Unfortunately, many people are unaware of how fresh the food in their fridge and freezer are when they return home from a long trip or vacation. If the…
By Ryan Banister Preparedness is more than a method of planning, it is a lifestyle. Long-term survival strategies are most effective when they are incorporated into one’s daily life. Anybody who seeks to be prepared for the future should be prepared to live out their…
By Lizzie Bennett Okay, so you have a three-year food supply, bagged, wrapped, canned and stored. You have rotated your stock, and stored what you will actually eat. You have it covered right? Well maybe, maybe not. Do you know how many calories are in…
By Lizzie Bennett Regardless of what you think the future may throw at you there are some things that will put you in good stead whatever happens. A crisis will fall into one of five categories: Personal Local Widespread National International Global Each one of…
By Derrick Broze Activist Post reporter Derrick Broze and his grandmother show how to can ground beef. The process also works for vegetables, soups, and beans. Broze has recently announced the beginning of an intentional community in Texas built around the principles of non-aggression and…
By Amanda Froelich Fresh and modern in its design, the underground fridge is basically an innovative version of the traditional root cellar. Whether you’re interested in lessening your burden on the environment or are prepping for doomsday, you’re sure to favor the plans of an…
By April McCarthy Although room temperature is one of the best ways to store fruit and vegetables in the short-term, due to our busy lives it is often difficult for us to preserve them without using a refrigeration source. Read these pro tips on storing…
By Gaye Levy With all of the varying complexities of food storage and food storage companies, it may be difficult to sort through and prioritize what is important and what is not. I don’t know about you but with the dizzying array of things to…
By Daisy Luther Excerpt from The Pantry Primer: A Prepper’s Guide to Whole Food on a Half-Price Budget *** Another important consideration when building your pantry is the restrictions of family members with food-related issues. There are many people who must eliminate certain foods or…
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 When I first started getting serious about food storage, I found myself facing an entirely new vocabulary of food storage terms. It should come as no surprise that one of those terms was “Oxygen Absorber”. At the time, I had no clue…
By Daisy Luther, Nutritional Anarchy The other day, I was cleaning out my freezer and something magical happened. Not only did I get a nice, organized freezer, but I realized what it really means to eat locally. When you eat locally, you know things about…
By Tess Pennington, Ready Nutrition From a sustainability standpoint, herbs are one of the easiest plants to produce. Many of the herbs we grow are perennials and will produce for many years. Drying herbs is a great way to save money and use for cooking…
By Daisy Luther, Organic Prepper The economic climate has a lot of people scrambling to stock up on food right now. Add to an uncertain job market the food shortage caused by extreme weather conditions across the country, and we could be looking at a…
by Gaye Levy When it comes to stockpiling survival preps, two items are always near the top my list: food and land to grow food. Those, in my opinion, are the two most valuable commodities to have if the world and society goes to heck. …
by Daisy Luther If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you may be feeling on edge. You may feel as though time is running out for you to get your preparedness supplies in order. You may be new to prepping, and feeling like…
