All Field Guides - Page 11

Flat lay of essential emergency survival kit items including first aid and water bottles.

Gear

Creating A Disaster Preparedness Kit For Your Family

How to build a family disaster plan, delegate evacuation tasks, and stock a supply kit so every member knows what to do when an emergency hits.

A diverse assortment of camping and survival items laid out, including food, tools, and gadgets.

Food & Water

Civilian MRE vs. Military MRE: Which Should You Choose?

The real differences between civilian and military MREs, from freshness and price to heaters and variety, so you can pick the right meal for your stockpile.

Outdoor view of an industrial generator with visible piping and wiring against a concrete wall.

Shelter & Power

Choosing The Right Backup Generator For Your Needs

Portable versus permanent backup generators, what each can power during an outage, and the factors to weigh before you buy one for your home.

Homemade preserves in mason jars neatly arranged on a rustic wooden shelf.

Food & Water

Canning Foods

“ Home canning food is a lost seasonal art these days when the local grocery store is well stocked year round with anything and everything we need. But for the average prepper, canning remains a trusted and rewarding method for stocking a long term food supply. The goal for any prepper is to main...

Food & Water

Canning Essentials

The basics of home canning, from water bath to pressure canning, and how the right heat and acid levels keep your food safe and shelf-stable.

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Skills

Prepper’s Guide To Bartering

How the ancient barter system works today, what makes an item worth trading, and how to put bartering to work if normal supply lines break down.

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Skills

Prepper’s Guide To Buying Platinum

Platinum is rarer and more industrial than gold, but it's only worth buying as physical coins or bars. How to buy it, test it with a scratch and density check, and store it so it holds its value.

Skills

Trading After The Collapse

How the barter system works and which goods and skills will hold real trade value if the monetary system collapses and cash stops working.

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Food & Water

Rainwater Collection: A Prepping Essential

Rainwater collection or harvesting has a long history. The practice provided water for irrigation, met the needs of livestock and served as source of drinking water for people throughout time. It became such a benefit that evidence from the prehistoric record shows people adapted their housing to...

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Shelter & Power

Wind Power For Preppers

Why Wind Power? Both wind and solar power are free sources of electricity once you have the equipment to capture and process it. Both systems on their own are capable of putting a sizable dent in your energy bill. And both systems are limited in their own ways. Power production with solar panels ...

Urban street scene showing a vendor selling traditional goods to a customer.

Skills

Bartering Items: What to Trade After a Disaster

Okay, somewhat extreme but maybe not all that far-fetched should the right dominoes fall in the correct order. Only a few short years ago threat of a full economic collapse seemed more credible than many people would otherwise have thought. Some feel the danger has passed while others pay heed to...

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Skills

Best Silver for Preppers: Bars, Coins, and Flatware

Stockpiling supplies and forming survival strategies for various disasters provides your family with a sense of confidence and security. However, deciding what supplies to invest in is a challenging. An excellent investment for the future, whether disaster strikes or not, is silver. Choosing Prec...