Gear
Essential Survival Gear
From a well-fitted backpack and shelter to water filters, first aid, and a way to start a fire, a practical walk-through of the gear that keeps your family safe and fed when the grid goes down.
Ronald
Ronald's been taking things apart since before US Preppers existed, just to see if they hold up. Research, writing, gear testing, all of it runs through him, and the kitchen table pays for it. Bug-out bags get stripped to the stitching. Water filters get timed against each other, over and over, longer than anyone reasonable would bother. Food storage claims get checked against a bucket that's actually sat in a garage through a real winter and a real summer, not a lab. If he hasn't put his hands on it, or trusts someone who has, it doesn't make it past him. It's not really a work thing, it's just how he's built. Reads the manual first, asks the annoying question second. Lives in the U.S., and a new box on the porch still gets treated like the start of something worth figuring out.
Food & Water
Types of Water Filters
Hazards of Contamination There is always a concern about providing clean drinking water for your family. Exploring the variety of survival filtration systems for your home is one step towards ensuring a safe water supply when sheltering in place is the best option. When emergencies occur and the ...
Food & Water
Family Water Storage Guide
It’s not easy putting a number to that question. Instead, think about how often you turn on the faucet in the kitchen to fill a pot for cooking, or how long do you stand under the shower trying to wake up each morning? How many times is the toilet flushed during a given day? Now, […]
Food & Water
Survival Cooking: How-To
Floods, tornadoes and earthquakes among many others disasters can disrupt power grids and water supplies over an entire region. Even a local gas line break or power failure would leave the appliances we rely on daily useless. Now if you and your family are avid preppers or campers this is no big ...
Food & Water
Freeze Dried MREs: How Freeze-Dried Food Compares to MREs
When it comes to longevity, canned and dehydrated foods are your best friends. But cans are heavy and bulky when it comes time to bug-out. And, no matter who you are, dried apples and bananas are tolerable for only so long, as far as your taste buds and digestive system are concerned. Eventually ...
Food & Water
Seed Saving
How To Seed Your Own “Seed Bank” The concept is nothing new. People have collected and stored their own seeds from a number of given sources for hundreds of years to continue productive crop lines, to prepare for crop failures, to even protecting against environmental calamity by way of large sca...
Food & Water
Dehydrated Food Benefits
Why dehydrated food earns a permanent spot in your emergency pantry, with a shelf life measured in decades and no cooking required.
Food & Water
Best Foods to Dehydrate: A DIY Guide for Long-Term Storage
Which foods dehydrate best for long-term storage, how dehydration preserves more nutrients than canning, and how to choose the right dehydrator.