Food & Water
Finding The Best Portable Water Filter Systems
The dangers hiding in untreated water and the low-tech and filter-based ways to purify it, from straining and boiling to portable filter systems.
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Everything you eat, drink, grow, store, filter, preserve, and cook.
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Drinking Water For Preppers: The Essential Emergency Supply
How long you can really survive without water, and the three ways to purify an unknown supply: boiling, tablets, and a DIY charcoal filter.
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DIY Rainwater Collection Guide For Preppers
How to build a rainwater collection system that turns your roof into a free, refilling water supply, from simple jugs to long-term storage tanks.
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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.
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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...
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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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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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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 ...
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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, […]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...