Bring these items and you’ll camp well without having to load up the whole household. We have all seen those campers that bring everything, including the kitchen sink. On a camping trip on the East Coast of Africa, I met an elderly couple that had arrived with a 5 ton Bedford truck, driven by their driver/butler/general factotum, a 4×4 vehicle…
Hey Pack. This week’s preps involved a massive learning lesson. We. Are. Not. Flood. Ready. Living on top of a huge hill – I mean a hill so tall you could hit a helicopter with a handgun if it was attacking kinda tall, you would not think flooding would be an issue. But it sure was today, fellow preppers. We…
Although many folks don’t think it is possible, you can dehydrate milk at home without the need for extremely expensive equipment. Dehydrating dairy products is often thought of as too arduous of a task, but I haven’t found it difficult at all to successfully dehydrate sour cream, cottage cheese, cheese, and even milk in my under $100 dehydrator. To dehydrate…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade, you’ve probably heard a ton of news reports and people talking about Presidential executive orders, especially executive order 13603, signed by Barack Obama in 2012. But what is an executive order (EO) and is it different than a law? How often do executive orders happen? And if an executive…
Hello Pack. It has been a super productive and mostly sunny week here on our survival homestead. Our awesome new chicken, duck, and guinea coop is now finally complete. We turned two freebie rabbit hutches – after we removed the skeletal remains of the rabbits that had been it and thoroughly disinfected it. The young flock members we hatched and…
Have you thought about what you will do when you can’t call the fire department during a long-term disaster? If not, you are among a high percentage of preppers who have neglected to work this fire preparedness into their survival plan. As preppers, we know calling 911 will not be an option during a SHTF situation, so we plan to…
The allure of cheap guns is hardly new. Sometimes you want a junker for a toolbox or truck gun. Perhaps you just don’t see the justification in spending several hundred or even a thousand dollars or more on a firearm when a cheap one will launch the same chunk of lead the same way. Maybe you are even squeezed pretty…
One of the questions that pops up frequently for preppers is should you raise animals for meat or rely on hunting when SHTF? It’s a fair question but there are a lot of factors to consider when you’re making this choice. In this article, we’ll walk through the advantages and disadvantages of each method for securing meat for your family.…
Hello Pack. We are dealing with more weird Ohio weather here. Sunny and super hot (like I love it) and then cold enough to think about lighting up the wood stove and… rain. Every time I start to believe that we can stop living on a mud farm, we get another downpour. We haven’t been flooded in for a while,…
Hello Pack, over the past few months, Tara, Rebekah White (you may have read her gardening articles on Survival Sullivan), and I have been working on a container gardening e-course for preppers, with a focus on portability. You can access the presentation page here to learn more… But don’t hit the buy button just yet! Because if you’re a member…