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“Dear Aunt Kathy,” my niece wrote, “my husband and I are readying ourselves to get some goats.  Can you help me come up with a list of basic supplies we need before we bring them home?” Those are excellent questions ...

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 ...

You’ve probably seen it too—dozens or even hundreds of pictures of the “ideal” bug-out vehicle. They are almost always heavy-duty 4×4 trucks, equipped with grille guards, extra lights, jacked-up suspensions and enough attitude to drive right over anyone else that ...

Are you happy with your survival pantry? Do you feel you’ve got a pretty good store of food and supplies should a disaster come about? You’ve got a good stock of sugar and salt, cans of vegetables and bags of rice ...

Survivalists and preppers alike know how having a properly stocked pantry and surviving perilous times go hand in hand. Regardless of your reason for preparedness, every prepared home has a well-stocked food pantry. For generations, storing food has long been ...

Sewing has much in common with other crafts that let you create something special out of basic materials. People who already love to knit, crochet, build, or design will find that sewing comes naturally to them, and anyone looking for ...

You’re just an average Joe –or Josephine.  You didn’t grow up around hunting, trapping, or survival skills.  While you might have dozed off to a fishing show once or twice on a Saturday, you’ve only been fishing a handful of ...

“The end of the world as we know it,” or TEOTWAWKI for short, can take many forms, but there is a good chance that whatever brings it on will be accompanied by monetary problems. Our currency may become devalued or ...

I have been prepping now most of my life—probably ever since I read My Side of the Mountain as a fourth grader and wanted to run away and live in a tree in the mountains like Sam. I have seen ...

Even if you do your best to prepare for the worst, sometimes things just go wrong.  There may be a natural disaster in which you lose all of your canned goods, or stuff could actually hit the fan leaving you ...