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Oxygen, water, food. Those three things are the things that we use more than anything else. And when it comes to food, you likely spend more money on food and other items at the grocery store than on any other single line item on your budget. If you want to […]
So I’ve worked through creating this series for National Preparedness Month, and I’ve had to ask myself some questions – What things were the most important to me? What things did I use the most? Are there things that I think could be the difference between life and death that […]
Are you like me? Despite the fact that we’ve left the country to move back to the ‘burbs, that doesn’t mean that I’ve given up my dream of homesteading. If anything, my dreams are both more realistic and bigger than before. What about you? Even if at the moment there’s […]
Have you noticed recently that food prices have been getting higher and higher? Sometimes it feels like we are at the mercy and whims of people with much more power than we have. Power to create shortages, to raise prices, to cause inflation. So what can we do about that? […]
While we can only live for three days without water, we can live as long as 3 weeks without food. But it would be three miserable weeks, which would ultimately end in death, if we had nothing to eat. So we need to get food systems in place NOW to feed […]
Does Physical Fitness Play a Role in Preparedness? I’ve had to bug out a total of three times. Living through a tornado hitting our home and through the Ferguson Riots gave me several opportunities to practice. One of the things that I learned from my experience is that bugging out rarely […]
When I talk about gardening, most people’s minds immediately head to something like the picture above. A large garden where you get down and dirty……in the dirt of course and plant your foods at least once a year, if not two or three times a year. Yes, that is gardening. […]
