Hey Pack. It has been another busy week here on our survival homestead. Most of the preps this week have involved harvesting wild plants to preserve or make salve and infusions with, and gardening. I made plantain salve this week. It is super easy to make and can be used on insect bites and stings, snake bites, poison ivy, as…
Hey Pack! We finally had a week without storms on our survival retreat. It still rained some in the evenings, which caused a big waste of hay on some area farms that had baled. I am so concerned about the availability and price this year. But we were also super productive. The only prepping purchases we made this week were…
Hello, Pack. This week we actually had multiple days where it only rained briefly. The ground is still too soft to work in the garden and bale hay, but signs of improvement are at least on the horizon… maybe. Our dwarf banana plants and elderberry trees are coming along beautifully. The tomato plants are struggling a little bit, but growing…
Hey, Pack. It has been another busy, productive, and slightly muddy week here on our survival homestead. We have been tending to our garden primarily for the past several days. Our chicken, duck, and guinea flock is immensely enjoying the ultra spacious run on their new coop. Eggs are so much easier to get since there are small doors on…
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…
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…
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,…
Memorial Day weekend is finally upon us. The unofficial start to summer is always filled with BBQs, gatherings of family and friends, adult beverages, and outdoor fun. While all of that is fine, “Decoration Day” as my grandmother always called it, should be about so much more than frollicking in the sun. It has to be, if our republic has…