Hello Pack. It has been a busy week here on our survival homestead once again. As you can see in the adorable photo above, my guineas have now outgrown my Banty chickens. In spite of their small stature, I still firmly believe they are the best survival chicken breed on the planet. You will have to keep a lot more…
Sweet potato soup is equally as delicious as butternut soup, which has become a go-to favorite for many people. Once you have dug up a great crop of sweet potatoes, this is a good way to use them. The color of the soup may vary depending on whether you use the orange sweet potatoes or the white ones that tend…
If you want to be truly self-sufficient living in a location that is far away from civilization, you will need a well. The process of digging a well is simple enough, but far from easy, and typical residential wells often delve deep into the earth, anywhere from 100 to 200 feet down. This will usually require the efforts of a…
Hello Pack. We had one heck of a great week of prepping. Bobby and I (and our two blue heelers) just got back from Prepper Camp in Saluda, North Carolina. Once again the three day hands-on self-reliance camp did not disappoint. We learned new skills, honed existing once, embraced old prepping pals, and made new ones. The atmosphere at Prepper…
Red dot sights are overwhelmingly popular sighting systems for firearms, and can be found on anything with a trigger these days, including compact handguns designed for concealed carry. RDSs boast excellent target acquisition speed and ease-of-use, supreme durability, and increasingly lengthy battery lives that neutralize one of their chief shortcomings, a near total dependence on batteries. For any kind of…
Every member of our tribe, family, and hundreds of folks who have eaten Bobby’s baked beans at community group events, always exclaim they are the best they have ever eaten. I am still trying to replicate his success – which should be simple using his “secret” recipe, but our tribe members can still taste a slight difference..yet still deem my…
Hello Pack, I hope you all have had a productive and enlightening week of prepping. This week we have had a host of good and bad things happen on our survival homestead. Tallulah, one of our Pygora fiber goats (in the center of the three white goats in the photo above) broke her leg. I am not sure how, and…
Water is one of life’s essentials, so it should certainly be part of your emergency stockpile, as well as your daily habit of staying hydrated. But, just how long can you store water for before it becomes dangerous? Purified water that’s stored in a properly sanitized container in cool, dry, and dark conditions can be kept for about 6 months.…
Hello Pack. We are in excited preparation for our trip to North Carolina to attend Prepper Camp. Our plan had been to go only as eager attendees, but that all changed last week. My prepping mentor, Rick Austin, who hosts Prepper Camp along with his lovely and prepper phenom of a wife Jane, invited me to be a presenter. I…
If you aren’t currently in the habit of regularly cleaning the lint from your dryer lint trap, it’s never too late to start. But don’t throw that dryer lint away! Find an easy way to collect it, and save it for later use. I keep a plastic bag right next to the dryer so I can put the lint directly…