Food & Water
“ 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...
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Preserving food through a home canning process is a time-honored tradition especially popular before every household had refrigerators and frozen food was readily available. The popularity of home canning was started around 1860 when a New York tinsmith named John L. Mason invented a glass jar wi...
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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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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 ...
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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, […]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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“Wherever you live, emergencies and disasters happen. Be it a tornado, winter storm, wildfire, flooding, a disease outbreak, an economic collapse or even an act of terrorism, it only makes sense for you and your family to be prepared with a stockpile of dehydrated food.” A disaster can leave you ...
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Preparing dehydrated food is a skill easily mastered by every prepper. One of the best ways to preserve food for long term storage is dehydration. Foods stored in preparation for emergencies typically include a good selection of dried fruits and vegetables as well as beef, ham or even venison. Be...