Food
Assess the threats in your area before you buy gear. Food, water, and first aid come first, then a plan to bug in or bug out. Assume your neighbors won't stay neighborly when the lights stay off.
Food
Knowledge costs nothing and weighs zero pounds. Take inventory of what you already own, set a monthly prepping budget like it's an insurance payment, and add one item at a time.
Water
Leaves roof your shelter, catch rainwater, feed you, and hide your position. Learn which ones are edible and which ones make cordage. In the woods, everything you need to survive is already hanging over your head.
Food
Floods give you less warning than almost any other disaster. Know your elevation, have an evacuation route, and keep a go-bag above the water line. After the water recedes, contaminated everything is the real threat. Boil it or filter it.
DIY
You don't need a bunker to start prepping. Cover the three things your body won't survive without: shelter, clean water, and food. Master those before you buy a single gadget.
Food
Despite all the heated back and forth surrounding climate change, as to who or what the catalyst may be, it is quite clear there are changes afoot. Temperatures are trending upward, severe weather is more frequent and rainfall patterns are proving erratic. No matter where on the political debate ...
Food
Let’s start off with a question. Have any of you ever gotten turned about, lost on a hiking or hunting trip? Have you ever felt a twang of panic vibrate through your belly for that second before regaining your bearings? It’s okay, you can admit. I will. I’ll admit to feeling that more than once […]
Food
Prepping for exactly one disaster is how you get caught flat-footed. Rotate your stock, train for more than one scenario, and never pin your plan to a date on the calendar.
Food
Okay, so the apocalypse has befallen mankind. A global pile of doo doo has hit the fan sending us all back to the bronze – but most likely just the post-industrial – age. Through multiple missteps and more than a couple instances of dumb luck you have survived the last 8 months since the catastro...
Food
Over the past few years, the concept of disaster prepping has changed, evolved if you will. Demographics have broadened to include a diverse mix of people delving into the prepper world. Perhaps, this change was birthed by the mass shift in economic uncertainty brought on by the Great Recession o...
Medical
As a prepper busy stockpiling all the emergency essentials as possible, usually on a shoestring of a budget, wondering where your household’s wastewater goes after it swirls down the drain could not be further from your thoughts. But just maybe that waste or gray water is worth some consideration...
Water
There is plenty to think about when you are preparing for the worst. It can overwhelm the mind trying to plan for every contingency, which is then compounded when the specter of evacuation or bugging-out rears its head, when your family’s survival depends solely on what they can carry. In that si...