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When you are feeling a cold coming on or are just having one of those days, do you find yourself longing for a certain food? For many of us, it is a familiar dish from our childhood — maybe a ...

Having to subsist on a survival garden may seem like a distant reality right now. But whether you would ever have to live on the produce from your own garden is not relevant here. Your investments in the survival garden ...

Preparing for a natural or man-made crisis isn’t easy. In fact, it can be downright overwhelming – so much so that you may be making disastrous mistakes and not even know it. Following are four common mistakes survivalists and preppers ...

Many survivalists and preppers have planned to live sustainably on their off-the-grid homestead. They have easy access to clean water, a pantry full of stored foods, a flourishing garden, some chickens or rabbits for protein, and a security plan to ...

Cultivating a vegetable garden is an important part of becoming self-sufficient. When a disaster strikes, the food grown in that garden can literally make the difference between life and death for the family. That’s why starting a garden now, before ...

There’s a certain element of romance in being the lone wolf against the world. We idolize people like that in movies such as Rambo, where Sylvester Stallone takes on wave after wave of enemy all by himself. We love to ...

When there’s a disaster or a long-term power outage, you need backup communication. During Hurricane Katrina, more than 70 percent of cell towers went down — and stayed down for weeks. The truth is that cell phone communication is very ...

As the saying goes, “You shouldn’t keep all of your eggs in one basket.” This same logic applies very well to survival and bug-out bags. You already may have one survival bag, but have you ever thought of the possibility ...

Not long ago, I had a job that required me to travel by air frequently. I am not a huge fan of air travel for a number of reasons. The biggest is that I really hate airport security; it is ...

There are so many events capable of severing power on an annual basis that it’s hard to believe people are shocked when a power failure occurs. From natural causes such as snow and ice storms to manmade causes such as ...