How-To

Once you’re serious about preparing your family (or even just yourself!) for an off-grid lifestyle, you may quickly run out of space for all your stuff. ...

1. Preplanning. • Location of retreat. If you don’t have a cabin in mind, the first item to discuss is where the cabin should be located. Should...

There are a multitude of problems that can be attributed to the crippling of our education system, and this article can’t address them all. However, at...

Preparation for a disaster is not always enough.  Only practice makes perfect.  If you make the effort to use Mother Nature’s little disasters and test your...

There are so many things that can happen to affect the safety of your drinking water.  Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, and...

Disasters come in a full spectrum of sizes and forms. Some may be personal, like a divorce, a death in the family, or the loss of a...

The wonderful thing about nature is that it provides, in abundance, just about anything we might need to survive. Life in the wilderness is sustainable because,...

For most of us, the severe economic downturn has changed the way we plan and manage our finances, and has altered our own personal outlook on...

Careful thought and preparation needs to go into any evacuation plan. Among the most important aspects of a sound plan is your supply checklist. When disaster...

With society’s ever-changing moral and political compass, parents are finding themselves facing children who are less connected to family; more self-absorbed; and increasingly accepting of the...